Well last p-day we went and hung out with Elder Jones In Olongapo. Hes been there this transfer so he was able to show me around and we went on an awesome hike! You could see all of Olongapo City. We even took Banjoe with us. His companion is a stud also! Before his mission he worked with James the Mormon! Apparently he made the beats for some of his songs! We had a great time!
The next morning i woke up with a cold.. so that kinda was a bummer for the rest of the week. But i took some of my medicine i brought from home and i'm feeling better now. We started it with district meeting. I gave the workshop about how we can apply what we have been learning about using the Book of Mormon and we did some practice teaching! It was great! After that we headed straight over to where the Diwa's lived. Their neighbors werent there and it didnt really work out with them.. but we were able to teach them. We read the Book of Mormon with them and shared some of our favorite verses. They are now in 2 Nephi 28! They read every night together! And sometimes they call Noel on the phone so they can read with him too! They are doing awesome! Noel went to church again this week and we were able to teach him on Sunday. He really opened up again about how what we teach doesn't really stick with him because he is so busy with his job.. so sometimes he forgets what we teach. But he wants to learn! So he has a good attitude. Hopefully soon he tells us he wants to get baptized! After that we headed over to Banjoe's family to go eat. I cant remember what we ate because we always are eating there haha. But after that, we decided to watch the Youth Devotional with President Nelson and his wife. His parents liked it and they really liked the songs and we were able to expose them more about the Church. The problem is Tatay isn't able to go to church because he has his security duty every single day of the week. Even on Sunday. But we love them so much and love teaching them.
Then it was JULY 4th! Happy late July 4th now but, we made sure to celebrate it! We made pancakes in the morning! They were super tasty! We also got to go celebrate the District Presidents mom's birthday with them. They invited us over. So we made sure to talk to a lot of people. One is Brother June. At first i was so confused because he kept talking to us in English.. I was getting annoyed haha! So i didn't really talk to him. But we ended up eating our food. And then talking to the District Presidents nephews. They only speak English because their dad served here and he married the District Presidents sister. They are super cool! But then i noticed that Brother June had a open spot next to him to sit down. So i go back and start talking to him. I started asking about what he does and stuff. He was in the navy in Chicago! When he was in the Navy his sister and their family got converted to the LDS church. So he never really got familiar with the missionaries. He stayed a while in the US but he retired here in the Philippines. When he retired here he picked up on Golf! So we got talking about golf! And he is a member here down the street at a country club! So he invited us to come play with him whenever we had time! So we set it up for Saturday. He got us in here at the country club! So on Saturday we headed down to this country club that is in the Zone Leaders area and played a round of 18 with Brother June! It was so awesome after 18 months or so to be back on the golf course! It was my companions first time ever going golfing! We each had a Caddy with us. (This is someone who's job is to stay with you and give you tips and clean your clubs). It made for an awesome morning that day. We got to know Brother June more and after we ate lunch we were able to teach him! It turns out that 5 months ago his wife died because of a drunk driver. So we shared about the Plan of Salvation. He opened up to us about what he thinks as a catholic..and how he thinks he wont know his wife again..it made us really sad.. but we tried to comfort him with what we know and it made him feel really good. He accepted a Book of Mormon. The small problem is that he lives outside of our mission and were not going to be able to go over there. But were going to continue to talk to him and see what we can do. It was so awesome!! I got to play golf again!!
We celebrated some more of July 4th with showing our neighbors our American Pride. Our housemate has a blanket of an American Flag. So we whipped it out and put it on the Balcony. We were getting some attention haha it was funny! We ended it with teaching at Kim's house. And the kids grandma was there so we were able to teach her! We taught about the Plan of Salvation and how they can see their Dad again after this life.. and this life isnt just it. They really liked it and we were able to answer some of their questions. The Grandma liked it enough for us to reffer her to the missionaries where she lives!
We worked hard the rest of the week! We even met a neighbor of Banjoe who told us she wants to serve a mission because she saw how much he changed because of it! We talked to her Dad if its okay with him if we teach her. She said if she wants to we can. So hopefully something can happen there! The dad said he is really busy and he cant get taught. He said he would let us know when he can tho. So that was good!
So..Those were some of our highlights this week!
Today Im emailing so late because we had a Zone Activity. We went to the Bamboo Park. We made another Zone tshirt and it turned out really good. We also were able to have some good bonding as a zone! We played some games/other stuff and one of them was to give out a Book of Mormon to someone there. We were all able to find some one there to give on too! We also got to go to a fish spa there! Our feet got eaten by these little fish! It tickled a ton! It made out for a good day!
Good luck to Connor at school and in Texas! Your going to do great! Also.. Shoutout to Spencer Leavitt for finishing his mission in Argentina! Time really goes by so fast and I hope i can cherish these last 6 months of my mission. Love you guys and have another good week!
Elder Breinholt
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