Hey!

The bad part of the typhoon hit down south. We did get about 6 hours of some good rain though. It was pretty much a regular day for us.

Yes, wiping with your left is exactly what you think haha and toilet paper can get pricey so we tend to not buy it. And a bucket shower is where you have water in a bucket and you pour it on yourself to get clean. Its actually quite nice. The balot...it has a bit of crunch to it...not eating it again!

We will usually have about 5 lessons a day. Most of them are with recent converts or less active members. And the rest of the time we are just talking to people on the street. I am getting to know our area pretty well and who all the members of our branch our. Our president is pretty cool and his family feeds us every sunday night. We also had a new branch mission leader called, an RM that just got back this Wednesday. We went out with him on Sunday night and i like him a lot. He also helps me with Tagalog. All of the members are really nice though. We have a FHE tonight at a less active members house and the dinner appointments Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. Everyone here is so humble because they literally have close to nothing but are always wanting to give us a snack when we stop by to teach.

We are able to exercise every morning for 30 min. One of the Elders has P90x so we will sometimes do that. If not its usually just some push-ups. On p-days though we go to another area and play basketball for 2 hrs and then get our shopping done there since we dont have a store in our area. We also eat at a place called jolleybee which is like a Filipino McDonalds.

Here we shake everyone hand and if they are pretty old we take there hand and put it to our forehead which "blesses them" and gives respect. Little kids will also do it to us. And yes there are kids everywhere! And whenever they see me they smile, wave and yell "hello" as loud as they can. Today on our way back i was sitting on top of the tricycle and school had just gotten out so i felt like i was in a parade haha.

This week we had Zone conference on Thursday so we had to wake up at 3 and travel up north. We had Elder Anderson of the 70 talk to us. It was great and very spiritual. For lunch an American who lives here, Bro. Pete, made us all lunch! We had rice, grilled chicken, spaghetti, and a sausage sauce thing that went on top of the rice. It was so good. I also bought a carabow belt from him. Its made from the horns and looks so cool. Im going to bring one home for dad. Oh and a carabow is a water buffalo. I will send a picture. Another thing that is really cool is that people that arent members will ask us to give their sick babies a blessing because they know that we have the Priesthood of God and that we can bring about miracles. The oil and vial i got from grandpa and grandma is being put to great use. We have giving maybe 7 blessings so far. And with blessing the babies comes a great opportunity to teach and share the Gospel.

Thats pretty much it or this week. Mahal ko kayo.

-Elder St. Gelais