This week on Thursday and Friday Elder Pino and I, along with the other missionaries in our house were told we had to go into the city to get an official interpretation for the Echo cardiogram of one of our roomates.
Not gonna lie it was more than a little tedious, mostly because on Thursday we were trying to get an interpretation for an EKG that nobody seemed to have a copy of. I don't know if it's just the western civilization in me, but I feel like it shouldn't be too much to ask for places to have at least a digital copy of an important medical procedure they've given to somebody, but as the saying goes: "It's more fun in the Philippines," and we just print off the hard copy of an EKG and after that it's like it never happened. It's okay though, because we did eventually get our hands on a copy of the EKG and got it interpreted and I felt like such a pro.
We also had a service project this week, where we sifted all the big stones out of this gravel, and put the fine dirt into bags, and mixed some of it into cement. I made a smiley face in the cement:
Other than that, we've really just been working this week. The past few weeks, it's been kinda hard for us to get new people who we are teaching to come to church, which is a pretty important part of their progression. We always invite a lot of people, but mostly they're just no shows. It was so fulfilling this week to see several people who we had just started teaching this week seated in church before we even got there. I love this verse in Luke 2:
37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
It's so simple, and so powerful. we need God's help every day, and I'm so extremely grateful for his help in this work, especially when I feel like I just can't do it on my own.
Love,
Elder Menzie
Tagalog with a kick:
kayod kalabaw -- a figure of sppech that means hard work
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Elder Pino and I at the service project
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