so its been a week! a super sunny sunday and that has been the best day of the past 6weeks!! btw sketchy keyboard.
so on wednesday, we took the hour plus and super expensive ride out to Solano for the dentist then she wasn't even there! made it home, worked and stuff, then on friday we went again and still no root canal! cmon. she said she forgot to do something to the tooth hole so i have to come back next thursday. oh man, its been like 5 weeks of weird mouth stuff but for the past 3 weeks no pain or anything like that, just a tooth hole. the worst part is that it affects our work. after the jeepneys and tricys just sap all of Elder Mebulos' energy, so he has to rest once we get home so we cant do much work those days. mostly just 3-9. but i was still proud of the work we put out. it sucks wasting all this time w my tooth, but the stories have been pretty good,so hard to hate.
funny language things. so i learned my first swear in tagalog! at an appointment i asked what a certain word meant that i saw a while ago and had noted down. they all just said "thats a bad word" lol pretty funny but kinda awkward because they kept trying to figure out the english equivilent......... but then something that happens a lot is when i'm teaching people how to pray i mean to say 'your prayers should come from your heart'. but what i actually say is 'they come from your cat! heart in tagalog is puso and cat is pusa! usually leads to a good giggle. "your prayers are supposed to come from you cat".
so yesterday was like the coldest day ever! the morning was straight frigid! like long sleeves and pants worthy. so in the morning, we worked before church nice and early and doing studies in the evening bc of sundays early curfews. and just biking around on a clear, sunny, crisp morning brought me back to similar mornings back home. it was my "heavenly day".
at church, out of the 30-40ish that attend, usually there are no kids. but this time one 9 y/o attended. and after i taught the adults, i found him just sitting around, so we went outside on the lawn in the shade of a huge mango tree and had our own private class. i used the gospel picture book and explained stories of Jesus. later tatay picar came and joined us and we spent a good 30 mins just talking Jesus stories. there was love there. ended the day squeezing every bit of time to teaching and finding. the day was one of the best for no apparent special reasons but the spirt of god was with us and we had powerful lessons. huge up from a long streak of lows and stress!! love it.
HYMN 97: Lead, Kindly Light
"pride ruled my will, remember not past years"
a lot of tough lessons have been learned this cycle and this hymn has helped me fix some personal weaknesses in my life. music heals the soul!
may pananmpalataya kay Cristo,
KEARL
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