Dear Family,
Well it sounds like a ton of you guys are all gathering around some table's to eat some really good food at uncle Dave's and aunt Anita's house! Sounds like a party!! Wish I could be there but I'm where I need and should be. So this week was a great week! No I didn't eat anything weird or go anywhere. I didn't even get transferred!! Me and Elder Bayles were pretty excited that we didn't get transferred. So instead of taking a 5 hour drive to Cauayan we just stayed here and worked, which was good. So the Philippines don't really like the "rich people" in town and they never open their mouth when someone is "rich". So me and elder bayles decided that we should go and talk to all the rich people that we could find so we walked around to all the cement houses and talked to as many people who would let us in their house. That was my first time going house to house to people and trying to get into their house to teach them our message. We ll we ended up getting the door shut gently on our face and one lady was actually laying on her couch and sat up and looked at us and said "there is no one here". Haha! It was so funny. Me and Elder Bayles just looked at each other and said "well okay"... haha it was so funny. We got into a few peoples houses and got a few new investigators out of it. We were desperate for some new people to teach and we have been praying to figure out a way for some new people to teach. It seems like just singling out the "rich" people is a rude thing to do, but to be honest they make the best members. They pay the tithing, come to church every week and they are way nice to the other members. So we felt guided to tract that class of people. We got a few referrals yesterday and one of them was a family of four. The kids are ages one and three, two boys. The family lives in a run down restaurant and they run a small motor trade business out of it. We started teaching them and they seemed to be listening until they put their kids down and they went crazy! They were ridding bikes everywhere and being so noisy. Satan really didn't want us to teach them. One of the little kids even squatted down and went poop on the floor in front of us!! Yeah that was pretty nasty! But we just continued on teaching! At the end of the lesson the sister even prayed! It was such a good lesson. We both feel that they will be baptized in the future. I'm grateful for the member's that care enough about the gospel to give us referrals to their closest friends. Without referrals our work would be nothing. So I heard that elder hales had to speak in front of everyone in transfer meeting. It was in English so the natives didn't really understand, but they said that he asked if anyone knew me and they said that they did! And he was pretty excited to know that haha. I'm excited to see him. I don't know if that will be anytime soon but who knows. So the Philippines is in a huge drought. It's called a el ninyo. It means that there isn't going to be rain until June or July. The elders in one zone don't even have water at their house to wash clothes. They have to go to a river and wash. How they shower I have no idea,. I'm just glad that I'm in the mountains and we have what little run off there is. It has been overcast this week and it sprinkled a little bit but not enough to have an effect on the ground. We have zone conference this week on Wednesday so that means I'll be getting up at 2am Wednesday so I can get to Cauayan on time for the 9am meeting. It's going to be a long day but I'm looking forward to go listen to our president give us some advice on finding people and being better missionaries. I don't know if y have ant packages but its possible that i will have them on Wednesday, so ill let you know next week if i get it. I love you guys! Tell everyone I say hello!!!!
Love,
Elder Mulliner
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