Jan 3, 2016
Our New Years was awesome! We went to sleep at 10:30 to keep the mission rules but then we woke up at 11:40 and went up onto the roof of our apartment. New Years is so freakin fun here! It's super loud and everyone just goes crazy haha. Literally every single house has fireworks going off so the entire sky is full and it is amazing! It goes straight for like 1 hour! The language is getting better. Last week dad emailed me to not say the culture is weird or anything they do and try to see them as Heavenly Father does. This was perfect timing because there was an emergency transfer this week and I now have another Filipino companion until January 13th! That means it's just me in our house and 4 100% Tagalog filipinos! I like to think that Heavenly Father is giving me every chance possible to quickly learn the language, so I am trying to take advantage of that. Rose Ann is really progressing, all we have left is some of lesson five and to get her married! We didn't get to teach that much in our area this week because we also have to cover my other companions area as well so we switch off every day, which is pretty fun. I like having two areas haha.
Yesterday in sacrament meeting, my goal for the day was to focus on gratitude and to look for miracles. It was testimony meeting, I got up and bore mine again and I feel like it was a lot better than last time haha, a lot better Tagalog, I cant believe I've already been in this ward for a month! I love them haha, but anyway, it was testimony meeting, and a visitor got up to bear her testimony, she is from Cebu, but she is here is Makati to get some "papers finalized". Her Mom, Dad, Sister, and Husband had recently died. She was maybe 28. She bore her solemn witness of the Plan of Salvation. It was one of the most powerful testimonies I have ever heard. I believe that someone in the ward needed that testimony and that is why he sent her.
My most spiritual experience came in the form of a dream. The day I had it, I was listening to the talk from last conference called "What lack I yet?" In it there was a promise that if you ask God what is hindering your progression, he will tell you by the power of the Holy Ghost. I prayed that night and I asked him to tell me through a dream. I had faith and this is the dream I received. I was on my mission as usual and all of the sudden, you guys showed up. You were in the Philippines for some reason haha so I hung out with you, but when you came, the world kind of changed to be more like home. We hung out in the back yard, I went on a drive with Shelby, I jumped on the tramp with Coby, dad showed me his new tool box and the progress on the trans am and I got to hear Caden play the piano. It was an amazing experience. At the end of the dream, I was sitting alone in my room at home and you came in. You said that it was time for you guys to go. I started crying like crazy and told you that there was no way that I could survive the rest of my mission without you guys. You were crying too and it seemed that you didn't know what to tell me, so instead of answering me, you knelt down right there and began to pray out loud, you prayed that I would receive strength and be able to find joy in my mission and have hope for the future. When I opened my eyes after the prayer, you were gone and I was back at my desk at the bahay. I began the plan with Elder Arnejo for the next day, and then I woke up. I do not know if this answered what lack I yet, but I do know that Heavenly Father loves me. He knows what I need. He knows that I was really missing you guys, so he gave me the opportunity to hang out with each one of you in the exact form that I asked for, a dream. I love this gospel and I am grateful for the chance I have to share it. I love you guys more than anything:)
Jan 10,2016
My tatay elder arnejo is getting transfered on a special assignment on Wednesday so I get to lead the area for the last half of my training! Kinda scary cuz I,m not that good at directions right now but I know it'll work out great.
I did what mom told me to do this week and I counted my blessings and wrote down ten a day. It was awesome haha this week was fun and went super fast!
I went to the doctor on Tuesday to check on my eye and I guess my eye reacted bad to the eye drops and I have glaucoma now hahaha. The pressure in an eye is supposed to be 10-19 and mine is 35! So it was killing my optic nerve, don't let mom get scared, it'll be alright, I got new eye drops and I go back tomorrow.
I had a funny experience too haha. I went to the Boni 3rd ward with Elder Tavita since he doesn't have a companion and as a joke we told everyone there that I was his followup trainer. In the ward announcements I was surprised when the Bishop said "and now it will be our pleasure to hear the testimony of our new full time missionary for the Boni 3rd ward, Elder Zesiger!" I got up there, looked out on the crowd of unfamiliar filipinos and said, "Magandang umaga po brothers and sisters. Ako po si Elder Zesiger. Acually po, naglilingkod ako sa Boni 6 ngayon. Dito ako para transfers lang haha" Translate that. The Bishop looked at me with wide eyes, then I bore the rest of my tesimony. I don't think some people listened though cuz after the meeting I still got a lot of Welcome to the wards haha.
I got to go into a Ferrari store and see the new 488 gtb! It's one of the sickest cars I've ever seen!
I also found a Rolex store and they had your sub.
Some pics we got this week....
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