Well fairly early this week my anxiety wanting to know where i will be going was relieved! I am going to the Philippines Angeles mission and i actually leave in about 12 hours....so crazy!!!! A couple things i heard about that place is there is a good mixture of big city (more developed than India) and absolute village and rice fields. So that should be interesting. Also, most people there speak some english but the overall language is Tagalog. So it will interesting to see how much of that language i pick up while i am there. Also, Filipino people are nuts about basketball which should be dang awesome. So i am pretty excited to see a totally new place but at the same time, i am nervous as heck. I am getting those same nerves that you get right before you leave on your mission because you don't know what to expect. And even though i am full into missionary life and have been out about a year, i am still super nervous because it will be a completely new life and culture and it will cool/crazy/challenging. So next time i email you, i will be in a completely different country:)
So basically as far as this week goes, it consisted of
mainly two things: 1. bunks 2. food. Sooooooo many people bunked
appointments this week which was a huge disappointment but we had some really
good lessons with Joel. Joel even came to church and so he and the branch
are really excited to have another baptism. Their first since i
left. We also had an investigator named Mahesh come to church. A
couple of the pictures i uploaded included both of those guys. Joel is
the african who is not John:) and then Brother Louis the BML is in one of the
photos and also my companion Elder Sharma, and Mahesh is the little short
guy. So Mahesh is really good. He is the friend of a family in our
Branch. So he is doing well. But this week we got fed so many times.
So many members wanted to feed me before i left that a few of them didn't even
get the chance because we were booked with so many food appointments.
Some days had both lunch and dinner.
The africans fed me their
african food which consists of fried bananas and egg and ketchup, it is a bit
different but pretty good actually. So we had a good time getting fed and
meeting our investigators but other than that, that is about it for the week.
This companionship has been frustrating, but now i will be off to the peens and meeting new people
and learning new things, and i guess pretty much getting a fresh start for my
second year of my mission.
So i bet you enjoyed talking to the other india missionary
parents!!! Sounds like some fun things are going on back home!! Mom, you rock
for always doing that angelman party. Sounds pretty funny about Kyler
wanting Ty's attention. Those two are good friends!! I love the pics! So adorable! (of Tyler/Kyler) Well sorry for the short email. Not a ton went on this
week but next week you should get quite the email as i will have to tell you
about the Philippines!!!
Love you!!Elder Ball
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| Elder Ball and John |
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| John, Manesh, Elder Ball, Joel |
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| Brother Louis, Elder Ball, Elder Sharma |
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| Dinner with African friends |
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