MANILA MTC - WEEK 4

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We will be listening to GC this week looking forward to it and forcing myself to stay awake due to the lack of sleep that I get here...

We went proselyting on Thursday and it was such a great experience. The people here are so nice and funny ha ha. I'm so glad they can speak English. Don't get me wrong I try to speak Tagalog first and when I get stuck I speak English so I pretty much speak Taglish. We were able to teach 3 lessons. One was in the squatters which is hard to explain just search up Philippines Squatters and that's what I had to walk through to get to someones house who lives in a tiny home made of complete cement and above is wood for his neighbors house. It's hard to have a strong presence of the spirit due to me not understand a lot of what is being said but also the noise that comes from all the neighbors. With one of the lessons the Elder asked me to say a prayer and then he just chucked me the pamphlet and said " Magtuturo po Inyo ni Elder Herrick ang Panunumbalik ng Ebonghelyo ni Jesucristo" or something like that and that translate to. and now Elder Herrick will teach you about the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As he handed me the pamphlet I starred at it, opened the first page a tiny bit, looked at the page then the investigator and back at the page my face probably looked like I saw a ghost ha ha. but it was such a great experience and can't wait to do it next Thursday! BTW don't search that Tagalog sentence on google translate as that is probably completely wrong grammar ha ha ha. "Elder Herrick pwede po ba magtatuto tongol sa ang Panunumbalik ng Ebonghelyo ni Jesucristo" I believe that sentence is structured better.

Cheers
Elder Herrick

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