Why was he on the hood?!?!?! (8/25/13)

Dear Family and Friends,

Another week has come and gone and boy was it a crazy one. We did so much this week and so much happened that the week just flew by. And now it is P-Day again. 

It all started on Tuesday with a lockdown! It had been raining since Thursday, so the Area Presidency told all of the mission presidents to have all of the missionaries stay in doors due to flooding. Apparently a few missionaries got injured because of the flooding, but not here in the Laoag mission. We did office work and study all day so that we are now caught up from transfers. 

Wednesday and Thursday were spent moving apartments. We got 4 new apartments and we moved 6 companionships of sisters into 3 of them. On wednesday we started at 7 in the morning and ended about 9 30 in the evening. Then on Thursday we started at around 2 after district meeting and ended around 9 again. Whew those were a couple of long days. President and Sister Barrientos knew how tough it was, so they fed us lunch and dinner on Wednesday. 

On Saturday we traveled to Vigan to get the furnishings out of the apartment of the couple missionary that just went home. We discovered that the bed of the truck wasn't big enough for the stuff, so we were couldn't even take back half of the stuff. We also had a problem with the water heater, which turned out to not even be ours. We had lunch at 711 in Vigan. Yes they have them here and it was good and cheap. Like 2 liters of Mug Root Beer for 53 pisos. We then headed back up to cabugao and then off to home, we got in late again. 

Elder B and I had to go back to Cabugao yesterday to finish a few things and went to sacrament meeting there. The branch there is full of young people and families, which is something that I haven't seen in a while. WE got a shout out in sacrament meeting from the Cabugao Elders landlord. I found it very funny that the members were still staring at the white Elder despite having 3 white  Elders serving in the ward, including Elder Lynn.

Once again we had super low numbers again. We did have a great lesson with the S family last night. We talked about the pre-Earth life and discussed Abraham 3:21-25; 27-28. They are awesome but Nanay still has a obsacle for getting married and baptized that she is not yet willing to disclose. It is really bugging us. They have been investigating for over a year and Tatay is ready to be baptized and wants to get married so he can, but Nanay is sill stuck. Please pray for them. They understood the lesson well, and they remember alot since it is probably the third or fourth time that they have been taught it.

We have interviews with President this week and hopefully we can get interviewed this time. We also have the cooking activity as part of interviews again and we are all excited for it! Thanks for the prayers and the thoughts and emails. It really helps to hear from all of you and while I am not as good about replying as I should be i'm trying to get better. God bless you all! Mahal Kita!

Elder RWood