Hmm... well this week there was an earthquake, a crap load of rain and no people at church. haha. just another week in the Philippines. Well nothing too exciting happened. I feel like the language is progressing nicely im learning lots everyday. i am speaking more and more without thinking about it. its not good yet, but its getting better.
Ok so probably the most exciting thing to happen to us this week. ok so we go over to sister D. house for a lesson with our investigator and while we are waiting, we are talking about the sicknesses we have been occuring in our companionship. Elder wood looks like hes got what i had and im developing lumps in my throat that hurt super bad. (maybe strep) buttt... so she was like,"when i was of the catholic faith, i was called as the medical person. When ever people would get hurt or sick they would come to me. i know all the herbal remedies for everything. (were thinking that she might have used some"herbal" stuff to "take a load off" she might have gotten high, ha) but she continued to tell us this story and then when she was done she asked us if we wanted her to see what was wrong with elder wood. she told us that she needed his full name and she would pray to God and ask him to tell her what was wrong with him. so he told her his full name and she said, "give me your pulse" and she grabbed his wrist right about the pulse spot and said "ok, now dont laugh".... (so im sitting across from them and i am just cracking up left and right while this is going on). so she grabbed his wrist and closed her eyes and commenced to...do her thing... so it was silent for a time and Elder Wood and i exchanged confused looks and then all of a sudden, she FREAKED out, like she was sitting there super still and she just totally spazzed. HOLY COW, i have never tried sooooo hard not to laugh. wow, it was hard. hahaha so she said "i know what is wrong with you."(make sure when you read this you say it with a cardoso accent mixed with a philipino...) so she said i need to touch your chest. that is where to problem is. so she tapped his chest and said, "see i told you i could tell you what was wrong with your body." Prior to her doing her voodoo, Elder Wood told her that he had been suffering from chest pain from his asthma. so it was even more funny. hahahahahahaha we laughed reeeaaalll well from that whole experience.
so on saturday, it was raining super hard all day. it continued to rain till sunday morning. we went outside to go to church and our front yard was flooded. the whole street was flooded. ha it was crazy. we went to the church and waited for people to show up. we had a grand attendance of 30 people. including everybody's kids. it was sooooo quiet! People here are sooo scared of the dang rain!!!!
there have been two earthquakes that elders have felt in our area the last little bit. i havent felt them but elder wood said he did. so ya. the weather is super duper HOT! its now the hot season. They have two seasons here, the wet season, and the hot season. so ya its hot. im pretty much used to the humidity now so its ok. just hot. like utah hot. like 85-95 degrees everyday. plus 100percent humidity. HOT hahaha
next week is my 4 month mark. im 1/6th the way done with my mission!! haah
well thats about it for this week.
Love Christian
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