Week 51: Last Interviews and Uncomfortable Amount of Rain

This week was just full of things that happened. It's kinda weird how that happens, isn't it. Things just happen one after the other, and before you know it, it's Monday, and you've got a self-imposed responsibility to write an interesting and understandable email for all three of the people who have decided that reading the weekly ramblings of a 20 year-old in the Philippines is a good use of their time. But we had interviews this week.

The Hiatts made the trek down to Bambang to interview all of us down here, which was good, but also kinda sad, because the Hiatts are leaving next week, so unless something weird happens, those are my last interviews with them.

Here's a picture of me eating Australian cookies at said interviews:

They really were good. But do you know what tastes better? The words of Christ.

It's gonna be pretty weird to get a new mission president, but it'll be great too.

On Thursday there was so much rain.

An uncomfortable amount.

We were walking home in said rain, and Elder Salas didn't have an umbrella, so I let him use mine, because I'm nice. So we were sharing for a lil bit, cuz we're cute like that, but when we got to the start of the street where our apartment is, I was done with that so I broke into a sprint, thinking, "How wet could I possibly get?"

very.

very wet.

I'm walking up the stairs to get to our apartment, and I am soaking wet. I mean, I looked like I jumped in a swimming pool in my proselyting gear. I saw the light on, which meant our house mates were home too, so I got to the door, threw it open and slid into the apartment, which they found entertaining. At least somebody thought it was funny. It's more fun in the Philippines.

Love,

Elder Menzie

Tagalog but hold the pickles:

Karumal-Dumal -- Abominable

Pictures Fresh Off the SD Card:

Zone Pic

Elder Salas on the phone

Elder Menzie--Contemplation

Week 50: HALF CENTURY

So for a little peek behind  the  ~digital curtain~ as to how I do these emails, I can never quite remember which week I'm on, so I just keep going back to the previous week's email to make sure, so I can write the subject in the way I started, and I figure it would be pretty weird if I stopped now. Plus I like it. But when I went to check last week's email just a few minutes ago, I realized that I've been on this crazy endeavor for 50 weeks, and I've written like 50 of these (give or take a few) and for almost a year, I've listened to no music besides the Tabernacle Choir and EFY music; no podcasts except for BYU speeches, General Conference talks, and this one Mormon Channel podcast about church history; and I've watched no movies except The Phone Call, Johnny Lingo, and any other weird thing that's got the Church logo on it.

And I love it.

Don't get me wrong, EFY music is the worst . . . mostly, but y'know, it's not all bad. We get blessings and stuff.

We had Zone Conference this week, which was a fun ole time. since I'm all the way down south now, I travel to Santiago City for Zone Con, which means that now I've been to all 3 Zone Conferences that they have in the mission: Cauayan, Ilagan, and Santiago. It was fun, because there are a bunch of missionaries from the MTC that have just been down south their whole mission, so I haven't been able to see them until now. Here's a Quick Pic:

Wow, did you feel that? It was so quick.

Zone Con was really fun, but also kinda sad, because it was the Hiatt's last one. It's pretty weird to think that in 2 weeks we're gonna have a brand new Mission President. President Craig seems nice though. He's from Canada and served here in the 80's.

Not much else has happened this week though. Just working hard, and trying to help people and prep them for baptism and all that fun stuff. It's been a great 50 weeks, looking forward to another 54.

Love,

Elder Menzie

Tagalog in the Good Way:

cinquentang linggo -- 50 weeks (or you could just say 50 weeks and they would get it.)

The 50th Anniversary Picture Spectacular:

Us vibrating between dimensions

More of us vibrating away the border of our reality

A very Zone Con selfie