Week 12

It's official, when I get married and start my life I'm going to live in either Iceland or Antarctica because the heat and humidity here is UNBEARABLE! Yesterday the temp was 41 Celsius which is 105 degrees Fahrenheit!!! Just walking outside for 10 seconds and I was already sweating. It's pretty rough sometimes. But other than that, life is pretty fantastic. The language is slowly but surely getting better and my taste buds are beginning to enjoy cold white rice so that's good. The past few days I've been starting to teach a lot more and the families we teach seem to understand what I'm saying so hopefully they aren't just nodding and pretending to understand, which is what I do when they speak haha. 

Friday: Lots of appointments and walking. 

Saturday: After we had appointments and at 6:00, our ward had a Saturday Fun Night. The theme was the Amazing Race and my team was Elder Obena, Aaron(a youth in the ward), and myself. Of course, our team won;) One of the challenges was to memorize and recite an Article of Faith, and our group was assigned the 6th. Which happens to be the only one I have memorized haha!

Sunday: During sacrament meeting, Pres. Sy (2nd counselor in the stake presidency) was the concluding speaker and a few days prior Obena and I had ran into him and his wife at the store. He wanted us to share a message with him so I shared a quick scripture and talked about it in about 90% Cebuano. During his talk, he mentioned me and how my ability to communicate in the language is already maayo gyud and how my message was a testimony builder for him. It made feel so good knowing that even though I can't talk that well, I'm still able to touch the hearts of others.

Monday: Today after district council the Zone Leaders pulled a few companionships aside because they needed to film us talking about FTE(Finding the Elect). Every Sister and Elder in the room was fluent in Cebuano except for me haha. They filmed one companionship at a time and each missionary spoke for about 30 seconds in Cebuano.  When it was Elder Obena's and my turn, our question was what are the best ways to FTE? The ZL's wanted ours to be funny so they had Elder Obena answer and speak as fast as he could for a full minute and then afterwards have me look at the camera and say "Know the language." And now that video is going to be shown at a Zone Con this Thursday for the whole island of Cebu to see.

Tuesday: Elder Obena had two baptismal interviews so we were at Lahug for the whole morning and afternoon but it all worked out because that evening we were able to have 5 full lessons which was amazing!

Photo from Saturday fun night

Photo from Saturday fun night

Visual representation of how Elder Obena and I normally look throughout the day.
Him being goofy, and me being completely lost