This week was for sure a little harder but the weeks are going by faster. Lots of crazy fun things happened this week.
To start out the week our district leader just snitched on everyone. So Elder Labrum and I were supposed to teach district meeting (sunday school) on sunday so we started writing questions on the board and then a branch presidency member walked in and told us he was teaching and then continued to chastise all of our district for the next hour on things that we werent even doing. So that was pretty fun. Elder Labrums cousin was here and was leaving on monday morning so we went and said goodbye to him sunday night and he gave us his mini fridge! So we have a mini fridge with all kinds of things that very from martinellis to pudding cups and all the way to a cosco chocolate cake. Yes. A real cosco chocolate cake.
Monday we were unsure if we were teaching or not and If i was speaking english i wouldnt really worry about it but we have to write out our lessons and translate them to Tagalog so planning a lesson takes a long time. Anyways we decided not to prepare a lesson and of course when we get to class we found out we were teaching. So we had to scramble to put something together and we went into the lesson with basically no notes and wow the gift of tongues is real. We probably taught our best lesson yet with no notes and it was so enjoyable just talking to the investigator and not worrying a lot about the language. You could really feel the spirit. After the lesson our teacher came up to us and just told us how impressed he was. He told us how he could feel the spirit so strongly and it was so much more powerful when we taught without notes. He was so excited he was asking us about what we were teaching next and just was really encouraging. It was awesome.
Tuesday night for the devotional Dallin H Oaks came and spoke to us! Thats three apostles for me! Its amazing how an apostle can just walk in to the room and wow the spirit hits you like a brick. Its so cool. He talked a lot about missionary work. One quote that he shared was "100% of your investigators understanding is up to you." He then went on to talk about how we need to realize that investigators most likely dont know one gospel term. That they dont have any idea what we are talking about unless we explain it and walk them completely through it. It was an awesome devotional.
Yesterday was a pretty fun day! we got to do service in the morning which is so funny. We just hide all over the place and its literally just 90 minutes of scaring each other. After service we went to exercise and wow that is a big stress reliever. We always play volleyball and ive never spiked the ball so hard in my entire life. I have Coach Mastrud to thank for my volleyball skills. I still got a little net games in me. After exercise we go to go and host new missionaries! That was a really cool experience but being the kid that has to pull away an elder from his crying family is not very fun. But seeing all the new misisonaries and hearing where they are from and where they are going is pretty cool. I was hoping i would see someone I new and a car drove past me, stopped and then a mom rolled down the window and said "Garrett?" and I said yes and just followed the car until it stopped. It turned out to be Sister Hyde? I think is her name. She told me how she used to be in our ward when dad was the bishop. So she took a picture with me and even though I really dont know her it was very nice to see her.
I also saw Cristian Broberg and that was so awesome! II didnt know he was a teacher here in the MTC.
Just a heads up. I will get flight plans later this afternoon or tomorrow some time. I will leave Provo on September 20th. So I travel Wednesday, I dont have a thursday because ill be on the flight and crossing the dateline and then ill arrive friday morning. I spend the next 5 days in the Manila MTC while they work on immigrationpapers and then I will be legit in the field with a companion September 27th.
Thats all I have for this week! I love and miss you all!
mahal,
elder gsack
Elder Ngalu and Elder labrum and I
Elder mathews and I. Hes our zone leader and hes way cool. We hang all the time
This is Elder Taka and I. Also known as Ben or Gene or Sini. Take your pick but he went to Rosevelt and played red hawks with me both junior and senior year. He left for the field wednesday early morning
Watching the labor day balloons
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