another typhoon!! woohoo

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  malipayong pasko! this week we had a Christmas party this week at the church and my companion was santa claus!!! i was just an elf. 

     this week was super fast i cant believe its already christmas! its awesomes to be able to teach everyone about Christ's birth and im sad that its over. but its okay.

     This week we were informed that there was a tropical storm coming for us so we needed to prepare again for that! then last night we were informed it had become a TYPHOON! but since i live on one of the most protected islands in the Philippines we just had a lot of wind and rain. it has rained since yesterday morning and we were soaked all day yesterday. we walked through a river!!!

     this week i read the end of the book of revelations and it was kind of crazy!!!! i decided the bible had to be written in riddles so that all the super awesome information inside wouldnt be taken out. chapters 12 through like 16 are some really crazy stuff and it just proves to me more our church is the true church. the bible is really really cool even though its a little confusing sometimes. i love you all!!!!!!!! merry christmas! bye bye

Koby didn’t send any pics to the group this week, so I thought I’d share some. Ward Christmas PartyWhite Christmas Christmas Eve dinner
During the storm

white christmas!!!!!!!

there is no snow here but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a white christmas!! on the 14th we got together with the whole zone and did baptisms and we baptised 9 people!! so everyone was dressed in white. it was really awesome and much more organized than the baptisms we throw together so it was really nice.

     this Thursday we were teaching our last lesson of the day and we closed out the lesson and it started raining goats and carabao!! it was so loud I was literally screaming the prayer but still it could barely be heard. we were just hiding in this tiny hut trying to wait out this storm but we were still getting soaked because the rain decided to fall horizontally and the walls of the hut are pretty much non existent! it was like Noah in the bible! but thankfully it stopped raining before the whole city was under water. when we were walking home it was like walking through a swimming pool! that was just everywhere. and when we got home we found that my bed was soaking wet because the water had leaked in through the windows we had to mop it all up and ended up sleeping on the floor that night.  

     we had interviews with president and it was really awesome he is a really fun person to talk to im really grateful for such a good president.

     it rained hard a couple more times this week but not like on thursday and my bed dried pretty fast. the people are really worried about us when we are soaking wet and it helps them talk to us so that's nice. also i have officially adjusted to the weather and last night I got a little chilly while it was 80 degrees.

      I love you all!! and i know that the church is true the more I study and talk to people it just makes more and more sense to me!! I know if you have faith and don't doubt you will receive great treasures of knowledge!! it is incredible!! I love you and pray for you bye bye sorry this is a long email.

this week we ate a toko they are the geckos 

after a lesson didn't work out  we  found this group carolors so we joined them and now i'm learning a tagalog christmas song.

we made cookies!!

this week for district council we made cookies. 

    we went on exchanges with the zone leaders and then slept at there house sunday night because it was a waste to go home and then have to come back for district council the next day cause its like an hour away. so we made cookies!! we were missing a couple ingredients but they were still good. 

    I tried to pick up a chick this week and got attacked by its mom but its okay i put it down and didn't get hurt. I also led my area during the exchanges and it was pretty fun! I did pretty good. this morning we went to look for shells with the senior couple here and gave them tons of shells that was really fun! we found some very cool shells.

    we were going to have 5 baptisms this Saturday but then one couple couldn't get married and two sisters mom wouldn't let her. so we are teaching her mom now and the others will hopefully get married soon!

I love you all and so does jesus!

this morning after looking for shells

Typhooooooooon and christmas conference

This week was crazy! Friday night we got a text that there was a SUPER TYPHOON coming and that we needed to prepare extra water and stuff then we waited for that to come until monday when we left for christmas conference. 

     It was really nice weather because of the typhoon i think cause of the breeze and clouds it wasnt burning hot. and it rained a little. Monday morning we had an 8 hour bus ride to the other side of the island for zone conference and as we were leaving it really started raining. then we left. it was a long day on monday cause we just rode a bus the whole day and had district council. I slept in the zone leaders house in dumaguete with like 16 other elders it was really fun. it was not a super comfortable sleeping situation we were all on the floor. also I met elder sperry from lehi! he went to skyridge too and he's a zone leader in dumaguete.  then christmas con was awesome! it was just like zone conference with more zones and we all did skits it was a party. we finished like 4 o clock and had to leave. we didn't make it all the way home last night we got to san carlos like 10 last night and so we still need to finish travelling today. 

     also one last thing! I ate a hair pigs nipple on sunday! it was just a chunk of pig belly and i just happen to get a piece with the nipple. it was a weird but it all tastes the same. 

     i dont have any pictures now