week 65

Hello To you all,

this week was a pretty good week. Lots going on and lots happening with transfer day today. I am staying in dasma with elder evenhuis which i am happy about and it should be a good transfer. This transfer goes till January as well so I will be here for Christmas and new year which I am really looking forward to. 

This past week we had a CSP (community service project) and man oh man this one was for the books. We went over to a less actives house and helped cleaned out their front yard. Woohoo! People here dont really have front yards its just kinda a small area of dirt if they do. so this family had an area of dirt but what the problem was they had a bunch of old bags filled with dirt all piled up and they asked if we could help them move them. In the course of 15 minutes and moving all these bags i saw overall 200 cockroaches, 50 spiders all the size of my hands and 3 rats. every single bag you picked up out of the pile things just crawled all over your arms and out from underneath the bag. It was absolutely nasty. It came to a point where we would grab the bag super fast and then throw it and all the things hanging on to the bag were smashed when the bag landed. But seriously so creepy. The craziest part though was when the rats came out. We didnt think of rats being inside we were just afraid of the cockroaches and spiders but I shouldve known. Elder Uasike picked up a big and out ran 3 of the biggest rats I have ever seen. I swear they were little cats they were so big. So everyone screamed and jumped and it was really funny looking back but in the moment it was disgusting. 

As for the work though, it is going really well. We are finding more and more everyday. This coming weekend we have the baptism of Sister Myka and Sister Monica. We are super excited for both of them .They are both part member families and its almost a joke when we go to teach them .They already have been taught everything from their parents of from siblings. So its been a breeze. Its just such a testimony to me how important parents are to their children. I am happy the church is changing to a 2 hour sunday service schedule and it gives families more time to leaern together and come closer together, 

Also happy thanksgiving to you all. Im sorry this letter isnt about thanksgiving but to be completely honest i forgot that it was today. Its not a thing here in the philippines so its not a thing to gsack ;) But dont worry next thanksgiving Ill be back 

Love you all lots,

elder gsack