Typhoon!

Picture from Zone Conference

May 29, 2011

This week has been really fun- it's gone something like this:

Monday- "There is supposed to be a really big typhoon coming later this week, make sure you are careful"
Tuesday- "The typhoon will get here on Thursday, it's supposed to be intensity 3" (scale of 1 to 5)
Wednesday- "The typhoon itself will miss Panay (the island I'm on), it's just going to be really rainy tomorrow"
Thursday- "... well, it's kinda windy...sometimes"
It was a fun experience.

The rain itself did eventually show up. Friday we had a zone conference. The rain would start and stop unexpectedly and would be so loud that they had to find a mic so we could hear the speakers, even though there were only 20 of us. It continued into the night. The rest of the weekend was fairly dry whenever we were out working, but it rained a lot at night time and it was always cloudy so the ground never dried. This meant more muddy walkways. One of them was so muddy that we started walking in the plants along the side of the road and discovered that there are actually stepping stones the whole way to our investigators house so we didn't get muddy at all. We just wish we had discovered these stepping stones earlier.

Overall, it appears that summer is spending most of it's time on vacation this year. It's the end of May now and the "hottest months" are April and May. This means I've survived the hot season and now get to enjoy the weather as it cools again towards winter. I hope I survive winter as well, I have a feeling I might join the natives in wearing long sleeves and sweaters. (I'm aware that I'm weird).

Well, That's life for this week. It was also filled with finding new investigators, having people tell us they are no longer interested in listening, finding an old investigator who wants to be baptized, and mga amo na (things like that). I love being a missionary, there is never a boring day.