9/27/2009

Hey guys!!!!!!!!

Well the Philippines is so insane! Where do I start? How I haven't died yet is a question I have been asking myself. You would freak out at the way people drive here! No traffic rules, no lanes, it's nuts! I have ridden a jeepny and I trike it's pretty crazy! We get flipped off a lot because we are white so they think we are rich but whatever haha. So the food is so good! We ate at this restaurant in Manila and I have rice of course and some egg roll things that I cant remember the name of, but its tasty! All the food is really good! I love it! The people are really nice and the members are great, we don't tracked, its useless in the Philippines so we get referrals so that's how we track I guess. We taught a lot yesterday. We taught a lot to mostly teenagers and a few older people. We are going to have 2 baptisms next Saturday and one at the end of the month so that's what my companion will be doing. We just started teaching a brand new guy he just showed up to church last week so we taught him the first lesson yesterday and then next Sunday we are going to the 2nd lesson. The language is nothing like the MTC! Everyone talks so fast its hard to understand them. I had to speak in church yesterday haha I just told about myself and bore my testimony and stuff like that. Our apartment..... its pretty nasty but we are going to clean it today so I hope we get it better. We have a toilet and a shower and running water, to flush the toilet we have to pour water down it and make it flush haha the water is cold so showers are freezing its really hard to get up and take a cold shower haha, its been raining like crazy here! Today is the first day we woke up to the sun. I slept a few hours in our 3 day travel so I was wasted I'm trying to catch up on my sleep though. My companion is cool, his name is Elder Hanks. He is from Utah. We played basketball today and it was hot! I'm afraid to play very hard because I think I'll break one of the little Filipinos haha they are so little! That big chair thing that dad saw isn't to far from my house, its so big! Jollibees isn't very good, their pancakes are though so sometimes we go there for breakfast, the food is cheap so we eat out a lot, mainly because there is no food at our house but we are going to shop today. I'm getting pants made today also so that's good. Yes it is hot here but its not the hottest in my city Ilagan. That hottest city is Tiggigurao, it's very very hot there, there are lizards in our house but not very many there are a few little spiders , I haven't seen any big ones yet though! I had some liver spread, it was alright but not my favorite, rice is good with everything so we eat that all the time. Coke is SO good. The president is very nice and his family is awesome he has three boys and they are all under 12 I think. Hong Kong is really dirty! We couldn't see very far and only a few of the buildings. I got some money and stuff so that was cool. The flights were so long and the bus ride was ridiculous. They play tons of American music here you would die haha. I have been whistled at by some baklas (gay men) haha it was creepy but you just ignore them the girls stare at me and think I'm cute, its really awkward when they say that in the middle of a lesson, its weird! Well that's all I can think of that I have done or seen or eaten haha! I'll talk to all of you next week. I love you all so much and I hope your all doing well. I love you all so much!! Send some oreos and chips ahoy if you can:) and haha I told Kens to send some oreos and m&M's, they don't really have American candy here but the candy here is good, everyone and their dog has a cell phone, I think that Philippines alone is keeping nokia in business lol tell everyone that I say hi!!! Oh yeah, Morgan, i never got the package that Ale sent to me so yeah I forgot to mention that. I got like all the dear elders that you sent me at the mtc here in the Philippines so I guess that some got sent here too so if that's an easy way to send letters you might want to look into that and see what/how you do that if you want. There are some really sick belts here made of caribou horns I'm pretty sure that Jer would want one haha so if he wants me to grab him one they are about 18 bucks, let me know if he wants one and I'll order him one, have him give you some money and put it in my account and I'll send it home when I get it I think it takes a few weeks to get on but I'll see. I think everyone would actually like one, well the guys because they are guys belts but anyways I gotta go I love you all so much!!!!!!!!

Love,

Elder Mulliner