Magandang araw mga minamahal kong kapatid!
This week was pretty great! We had three of our investigators interviewed to be baptized on the 26th and two of them (hopefully three) are indeed going to be baptized this week! Their names are Rea, Precious, and Romnick. We are so excited for them and we will do all that we can to help all three of them be baptized this week!
Other than that, however, nothing else too exciting happened this week. The Elder who contracted Dengue is recovering and should be returning to his area today or tomorrow! It's really hard to see missionaries get sick and have to leave their area for a whole week to recover. You really don't see the difference one missionary companionship makes until they're gone.
Our new house is still great. We have an interesting water situation though. When we first moved in we saw that we had two choices for getting water to the house. One was a manual water pump and the other was a motorized one. We were so grateful when we saw the motorized pump because, to be honest, pumping water by hand gets pretty old pretty fast. So we turn on the motorized pump and our shouts of joy quickly turn to cries of disgust. The water from the motorized pump is... brown (tagalog: kulay tsokolate). As we realize that this water just won't make the cut for our bathing, dish washing, and laundry needs, we turn off the motorized pump and turn our hopes to the bumba (the manual pump).
I felt like repeating the words of Princess Leia in Episode IV, "Help me [manual water pump], you're my only hope."
We get pumping...
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And to our joy...
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The water is not brown! It turns out the two pumps have separate water sources! There is only one draw back...
The water is the color of urine.
But hey, I've washed my whites twice and they haven't turned yellow!... yet :)
That's it for this week everyone! I hope you all have a fantastic week and remember the Lord's blessings. Especially look for the things you may take for granted, like clear, clean, drinkable water from a tap. Seek to have an "attitude of gratitude" in all things and the Lord will continue to shower you with blessings. You will be more content with life and live in peace as you come to appreciate all of the little miracles that happen in this world everyday.
Mahal ko kayong lahat!
Sa susunod ulit!
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