Week 15

This week was a really great week honestly. I was able to see at least one thing each and every day where I know that the Lord was using me as his instrument in the work. Elder Pangan and I did a lot of work this week and we have had a lot of success finding and teaching. We were exploring one of our baranguays (kind of like neighborhoods but they have councils and officials and stuff) called "Sinabaan" (which we now refer to as Cinnabon just for the memes) which I had felt prompted that we should go to ans while we were there we ran into three girls ages 17-21. They were really interested and when we went back to teach one of them she was really interested and asked if she could be baptized. We said yes and extended an invitation.

Also, this week we went on exchanges with our Zone Leaders in San Carlos and it was really fun. I learned a lot about Tagalog and teaching. Plus, while sitting downstairs in their apartment with Elder Fox and Elder Lucas (my MTC companion lives there but isn't a ZL yet) I saw a rat run into their bathroom. So, I said nonchalantly, "by the way you guys have a rat in your bathroom." They both looked over confused and as they did we saw it run into the kitchen. After a really entertaining circus of attempts to kill it, broken brooms and dust pans, Elder Fox smashed it with a broom handle. I then took it outside in the dust pan and lacrosse-threw it across the street. It was way fun.

Also, on Sunday we had a Philippines wide stake conference broadcast from President Holland. It was really good and if you can find it I'd invite you to watch his talk.

Its been a week,

-Elder Collier

#kapayapaanalisnaako (kapayapaan alis na ako - a joke translation from english)