Haha, Mom it made me laugh when you said you got lots of rain.Last monday we thought it would be sunny so we hung our clothes outside and as soon as we left, it started pooring and all my white shirts got muddy. That made my day. Oh, I forgot to tell you last week but my first baptism was on saturday and it was sweet. The were these two 15 year old friends named Andrew and Jomar. I got to baptize Jomar and that was awesome. To answer some of your questions, my area is Lopez Jaena(Hina), it is a ward with over 600 members because our area is so big. But only about 100 are active. The members are awesome but right now the Philippines area goal is the rescue. So we are trying to reactivate all of the less actives. That takes up most of our time. Also the word of wisdom is a huge problem here because everyone drinks and smokes. Cigarettes only cost a peso. The members also really don't do anything. The bishop and the ward mission leader are really new so they really aren't to up to date on what they should be doing. Next week we are going to start teaching two mutes. Yeah, they are deaf and they cant speak. So we will pretty much play charades for thirty minutes. I really like the area that I am in and once I can speak, I will have so much more fun and our work will be so much more successful. The food is actually pretty good but all this rice pretty much just clogs me up and that really sucks. Last week I just started drinking all the water and I've been OK so oh well. This is my companions last area so he is pretty stoked to leave and loves to tell me how many days he has left. Last week I had one of our less actives make me and espading and it is pretty rad.(thats like a Filipino machete) I think my companion is telling President Lopez that I am doing a lot better than I am because he tells me every week how good I am doing, and every week I keep thinking I got someone else's letter. Tomorrow is my first companion exchange and I have to lead my area so that will be interesting because I don't know what anyone is saying. But it will be all good. Everywhere I go people just stop and stare at me and I am not gonna lie thats gets pretty akward sometime but I usually just walk up to the and start talking to them in english and that's pretty funny.This is definitely a completely different and its hard learning two languages at once but I love it more and more every day. Sometimes I can't even feel the blisters on my feet. I and growing so much stronger in my faith in the Lord and I feel the spirit so much stronger now. We have a lot of really hard lessons and then we have some were it just clicks and you can totally see that the spirit is witnessing to them that is true. That's what makes the days better here.I still can't understand anyone so that is pretty much the update for me. But, what is going on with Amy and Spencer? sounds like they are getting pretty serious. Is Kristi really bringing another kid on board? Sounds like Kelly and Matt are going to be rolling in it soon. Anyways, its back to work for me but I love you all and I cant wait to here from you next week.
Love,
Elder Pulsipher
