This was a pretty good week once again. It was a little bit long because we had to go home at 5 on new years eve and on new years because everyone was drinking and singing karaoke into the early hours of the morning and their were lots of firecrackers going off so that was pretty fun. We also got fed a lot by the members so that was great :) The members in Sogod treat the missionaries very well.
We also had the 2 hour church which was kinda different. We do Sunday School first here because people are always super late but they want everyone to be there for the sacrament so Sunday School was pretty small. But it was good. We also got to have a special broadcast from the Area Presidency of the Philippines which introduced the area plan. It is focused on 3 words. Obey, Covenant and Establish. It focused on simple ways to incorporate these things into building the Church in the Philippines and it was really cool.
The work has been a little bit slow because all of our investigators were doing stuff for new years so we didn't have a lot of teaching but we still saw some miracles of being led to people or helping to strengthen less active members. James Carlo, our good progressing investigator, was staying with his family in Milagroso which is a really far away barangay so he didn't come to church which was kinda sad but we are still excited for him to keep progressing as well.
Question from mom and dad - What language do you speak in your apartment? It's kinda mixture in the apartment. The mission wants all the filipinos to learn english so I help out and my companion is getting pretty good at english but we also speak a lot of Cebuano as well. Also I forgot to say I have not yet bought a ukulele but the next time I got to Tacloban I will.
Love you tons,
also I forgot my camera so no pics sorry
Elder Holmstead
Philippines Tacloban Mission
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