i ate a pineapple

this week was super fast!!! we have started having lots of fhes and its really fun! and they are like the best for missionary work because less actives come and ginatudloans and members and new people and all become friends!!! and we get to eat good food!!! also this week we had 7 interested people at church!!! it was crazy I was honestly a little worried that my area was dying  but we've been able to find a ton of new people with good potential! I also caught 3 massive frogs this week they were really big and Filipinos are afraid they will pee in your eyes and make you go blind. but if you just don't hold them over your eyes then you should be good. we also got to get water and carry it from the spring to her house on top of a mountain this week! if i did that everyday i would get really buff. this week i ate a whole pineapple on monday and tons of bananas because im trying to be healthy. also like 3 people this week told me that i seem like a child, so hopefully that is good. i love you all!! the church is true and i know the lord helps us as we do his will.


!! kitakits 

(He was sent a updated picture of the avocado seed he planted while in the MTC. It’s still there and doing great! Added by Shana)

lots of finding

this week we have been trying to do more finding, so we talk to lots of people. we have found a lot of new people and also a really really old persons dead body!!! they had been dead long enough it was just bones in the cementerio!!  we were going to a return appointment in the cemeteryo and then we saw a bunch of white stuff on top of a grave! turns out it was like half a human skull and some other longer bones! I guess that after a while they take the bodies out of the graves to make room for more since we are on the beach when you need more space your cant dig deeper. so that was kind of cool. other than that it was just lots of normal stuff i learned another children folk song its about a fisherman who sold a fish to buy coconut beer. i gave a talk in church and i think people understood me. on friday i hit my 6 months and also finished the old testament. yall should try to learn a little bit from the old testament because it is so interesting. it connects everything like why we are here and that god really is the same god always. especially as a missionary its so important that we gather scattered israel and try to find our lost brothers and sisters!! i love you all halong mo!!

these are some frogs and the bones we found

Monkeys in a mango nga kahoy

this week was pretty good! on thursday i went to sancarlos and helped my zone leader get people in and out of the terminal while i waited for my new kompanion. it was a long kind of boring day. my companion is elder hansen hes from idaho, and hes been here 18 months almost. since he is from a different part of the island his cebuano is kind of different and he doenst know any ilonggo yet. but he does know some tagalog. on saturday we did a saturday fun day at the church and we played a really fun game!! it was like tag and the ground is lava. so at our church we have a ton of really small baby mango trees about as tall as me and as thick as a soft ball and so if you are hanging in the tree you are safe and cant be tagged but if you touch the ground then you can be tagged!. I think it was really funny to see two big amerikanos hanging on to these tiny trees. but it was like the best game ever. other than that it has been good leading the area. we have been visiting a lot of recent converts this week since we have a ton of them. 

that is about all love you all!!!

these are the spiders pictures from last week i think its called a bayawan or something.

Buotan spiders!! and transfers!!!!

this week I caught a big spider!! and it was really nice it didn't bite me they use them to fight other spiders but I couldn't find any other spider to fight it. also we got transfer calls and im staying in toboso and my companion is going one area over to calatrava!! my new comp will be elder hansen. also something funny happened at church, my 1st councilor bore his testimony on staying safe from coronavirus, then he said he wished adam and eve were chinese because then they would have eaten the snake rather than the apple. because I guess the virus is from eating some weird exotic camel.  haha i guess that there is one reported cause of the virus on my island but it's far away and under control probably. this was a really good week  we did lots of teaching members and eating lots of food! our teaching pool is kind of small but hopefully we will grow it back up. I love you all i know the church is true!! bye bye!!! sorry none of the pictures of the spider will load i'll send them next week.