He didn't label any of these so next letter I'll ask.
Monday, December 26, 2011
day 68
ok well so im finally adjusting to just how poor it is here. its 300percent different from the states! its extremly humbling to know that little old ladies are spending their weeks wages on bus transport just to get to church every sunday. they live so spread out in the jungle its soo crazy.
we have to take a jeepney to the bukid, the jungle, then we walk forever and get to one persons house. its super funny to see their little hut thats like 10feet by 6feet with rock floors and sheets as walls then to see their HUGE stereo systems and large tvs. its kinda sad to see that but what can i do. the people here love their karaoke. we will be walking along and all of a sudden we will here a journey song or another famous american song just blasting from one of these little huts. its fun. we sing along too :) well my apartment doesnt have rats or mice, it does have ants though. but they are the tiny ones that are super cute that you just dont even notice theyre there till all your food is gone. today we went shopping at the store. its a legit store! they have a check out stand and isles and even a dude standing in front with a shotgun!! whoohoo haha oh and today its raining like wicked crazy!!!!!! holy cow. we walked like 3 blocks and we are sooo super duper soaked!!! i bought some root beer today. it tastes like garbage. ha oh well. now im going to try to attach all my photos and possibly a video. we will see. its only letting me send like 5 at a time. ill send another email.
love you all and hope you all have a very merry christmas!!
elder smith
He didn't end up sending another email.
we have to take a jeepney to the bukid, the jungle, then we walk forever and get to one persons house. its super funny to see their little hut thats like 10feet by 6feet with rock floors and sheets as walls then to see their HUGE stereo systems and large tvs. its kinda sad to see that but what can i do. the people here love their karaoke. we will be walking along and all of a sudden we will here a journey song or another famous american song just blasting from one of these little huts. its fun. we sing along too :) well my apartment doesnt have rats or mice, it does have ants though. but they are the tiny ones that are super cute that you just dont even notice theyre there till all your food is gone. today we went shopping at the store. its a legit store! they have a check out stand and isles and even a dude standing in front with a shotgun!! whoohoo haha oh and today its raining like wicked crazy!!!!!! holy cow. we walked like 3 blocks and we are sooo super duper soaked!!! i bought some root beer today. it tastes like garbage. ha oh well. now im going to try to attach all my photos and possibly a video. we will see. its only letting me send like 5 at a time. ill send another email.
love you all and hope you all have a very merry christmas!!
elder smith
He didn't end up sending another email.
day 68 Questions and Answers
Have you adjusted the time clock in your body?
well not really, its gonna take some time. but its getting better.
Who is your comapanion and where is he from...I'm hoping that you get a native and get the language down even better.
benicia california kevin wood. been out 9mths
Do you have potty paper?
i have one roll left. itll prolly last the week and then.... well we'll find out.
What's the oddest thing you've seen....or make a list.
hmmmm... prolly the 8 grown people crammed on one motorcycle!!! it was flippin crazy!!
What city did you end up in?
Merida
well not really, its gonna take some time. but its getting better.
Who is your comapanion and where is he from...I'm hoping that you get a native and get the language down even better.
benicia california kevin wood. been out 9mths
Do you have potty paper?
i have one roll left. itll prolly last the week and then.... well we'll find out.
What's the oddest thing you've seen....or make a list.
hmmmm... prolly the 8 grown people crammed on one motorcycle!!! it was flippin crazy!!
What city did you end up in?
Merida
Saturday, December 24, 2011
day 66 Christmas day in the Philippines
Around 10 p.m. on Christmas eve (our time) we got a call from Christian saying to call him back. We could hardly hear him when we called him back. It was Christmas day for him around noon. He was at a church about a block away from his apartment. Yes, I said apartment...he doesn't live in a shack or a hut. And he doesn't have mouses. Yay!! He was in his church with air conditioning and loud music in the background. People all around do karaoke in the streets. Little kids give him high fives and ask him if he's an actor...We told him he should say..."yes, my name is Ricky Schroeder". He is doing good and is in a city called Merida with a companion from California. It's the first time their area has had two white elders together. His companions name is Elder Woods. He still didn't know his first name after a couple days together. He likes him well enough.
He has a shower with two buckets and a ladle...he also uses that ladle when he uses the bathroom. No he doesn't have toilet paper. It's kinda like he showers over the toilet too...He uses alcohol for his left hand...enough said. And he seems ok with it... He seemed in pretty good spirits. His pdays will be Mondays same as Jensen, but we'll get his email Sunday sometime. With the 15 hour difference.
At the time we talked he still hadn't opened any presents yet, so I don't know what his thoughts of them were. And hopefully this time we'll get some pictures right away. We got to "talk" and repeat things over and over for about an hour. It was so nice to talk to him again and know he's ok. Best Christmas present ever.
He has a shower with two buckets and a ladle...he also uses that ladle when he uses the bathroom. No he doesn't have toilet paper. It's kinda like he showers over the toilet too...He uses alcohol for his left hand...enough said. And he seems ok with it... He seemed in pretty good spirits. His pdays will be Mondays same as Jensen, but we'll get his email Sunday sometime. With the 15 hour difference.
At the time we talked he still hadn't opened any presents yet, so I don't know what his thoughts of them were. And hopefully this time we'll get some pictures right away. We got to "talk" and repeat things over and over for about an hour. It was so nice to talk to him again and know he's ok. Best Christmas present ever.
Monday, December 19, 2011
day 61 Filipino Missionary trials
I've been reading this sister's blog and thought I would post this link to this particular post. I had heard from someone at the "flag store" to always send toilet paper to a missionary in the Philippines and I brushed it aside. Now hearing this... So send toilet paper even as packing material...
day 61 Twelve minutes is just too short!!!
Here are the things that I wanted to know...
Are you going straight to the MTC in Manilla?
No, going to the field. The MTC in Manilla only teaches English and tagalong. He has to learn a little tagalong, waray waray, and ilonggo.
Did you open your Christmas stuff?
No, it's not Christmas yet.
Was your new suitcase ok? Was it too big?
Yes it was awesome and no it wasn't too big. I've filled both suitcases full already.
What airline are you travelling?
Eva
Are you going straight to the MTC in Manilla?
No, going to the field. The MTC in Manilla only teaches English and tagalong. He has to learn a little tagalong, waray waray, and ilonggo.
Did you open your Christmas stuff?
No, it's not Christmas yet.
Was your new suitcase ok? Was it too big?
Yes it was awesome and no it wasn't too big. I've filled both suitcases full already.
What airline are you travelling?
Eva
He got to the sl airport at 130 p.m. today and flew to la. Then to Taiwan, manila, tacloban
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
day 56 Hosting Pictures
How cool is that? This is Ian, Christian's good good buddie from soccer and high school. Christian was "hosting" and picked up Ian. What a treat!!
Marica Maryott (Ian's mom said this on fb from the comment below this picture) "Can you believe that, he actually told the other Elder he would take care of this Elder."
Marica Maryott (Ian's mom said this on fb from the comment below this picture) "Can you believe that, he actually told the other Elder he would take care of this Elder."
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
day 55 Questions and Answers
Do you wear your nerdy church shoes? Are they so comfy?
Ya i wear em. i get made fun of all the time cuz they make my feet look so dang small. they arent quite as comfy as i would like. i have to take em off when i wear em for extended times.
What would you like for christmas?
HMMMMmmm... i have no idea. something amazing i guess...(name that movie) ok well the best thing for my situation would be money. there are soooo many cool things to buy in the peens. all my teachers have em and it would be cool to get some stuff for my brothers.
How was "hosting"?
hosting was hard. we had a bunch of kids with heavy as crap luggage. i had to carry all of em everywhere and it was a workout for sure!! im doing it again tomorrow. then friday we have infield orientation alllll day!!!
Have you seen Jose' yet?
i have not seen him yet. but i did run into Jessicas ex bf whos father i met at work. he was nice.......
Ya i wear em. i get made fun of all the time cuz they make my feet look so dang small. they arent quite as comfy as i would like. i have to take em off when i wear em for extended times.
What would you like for christmas?
HMMMMmmm... i have no idea. something amazing i guess...(name that movie) ok well the best thing for my situation would be money. there are soooo many cool things to buy in the peens. all my teachers have em and it would be cool to get some stuff for my brothers.
How was "hosting"?
hosting was hard. we had a bunch of kids with heavy as crap luggage. i had to carry all of em everywhere and it was a workout for sure!! im doing it again tomorrow. then friday we have infield orientation alllll day!!!
Have you seen Jose' yet?
i have not seen him yet. but i did run into Jessicas ex bf whos father i met at work. he was nice.......
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
day 48 Questions and Answers
I sent some food to your companion I hope that it didn't get yucky by the time he got to it. Did you get to try any?
oh heck ya!! he and elder ratu freaked out when they saw the meat pies!! it was soooo funny! they were awesome! we took em to the nuker and warmed them up. he was sooo dang happy do get that package! great idea mom :)
I am picking up your contacts today. They are for a years worth...Would you like them all at once or do you want us to send them when you need them? And I will get them to you either today or tomorrow...check your mail.
Whoohoo! just send em all together. thanks yous so much!
Funny story?
oh well we were teaching tthe importance of families, and i was talking about getting married and i accidentally said that we get to marry Lalakis. which means guys. our investigator is a dude so it was really wierd. well i should have said that we can ONLY marry Babaye(which is women). awkward... haha
so another one. well after one of the devotionals, it started to snow. so i was gazing out the window just watching the snow, and i started dancing a bit. nothing to big or nothin but kinda like a snow summoning dance. so all of a sudden it went quiet in the classroom. so i turned around to see a member of our branch presidancy just standing there with a huge smile of his face. it was sooo funny. after he left i was like, "why didnt you guys warn me or something??? they said that they were NOT going to miss that oppertunity. haha pretty darn funny :)
Ummm dude...you said that you'd send some pictures last week....we waited everyday for the mailgirl to deliver some and she didn't...SEND SOME PICTURES!!!
ok so i had the pics and whatnot all printed out and ready to send but then i just didnt. i either forgot to or something happend where is was weird. i dont remember. but ill get em out today.
Can you believe that you're going to be going soon? like less than 2 weeks? Anything you want to stock up on?
well just for the plane ride and what not, gummies might be great. um send some more toothpaste. nuskin stuff is just dandy. OH my electric razor thing broke. the same thing that is broken on tys is broken on mine. so ive been able to make due but it hurts like the dickens.
I've ordered your pants and hopefully they'll be here before you go...
whoohoo:) happy day.
Cebuano word of the week....
Kangitngit. it means darkness. its super hard to say. (kah-ngit-ngit) the ng is like sing a song. try saying it in the back of the throat.
well hope you have just a happy super cold week! :) i am hosting (gather all the newbies that are dropped off at the curb from their families and take them inside and show them around...he will be someone else's "Elder Host") this wednesday. its gonna be cool! then we get our travel plans on thursday! im pumped!! we are almost outta here!!
Love Elder smith
oh heck ya!! he and elder ratu freaked out when they saw the meat pies!! it was soooo funny! they were awesome! we took em to the nuker and warmed them up. he was sooo dang happy do get that package! great idea mom :)
I am picking up your contacts today. They are for a years worth...Would you like them all at once or do you want us to send them when you need them? And I will get them to you either today or tomorrow...check your mail.
Whoohoo! just send em all together. thanks yous so much!
Funny story?
oh well we were teaching tthe importance of families, and i was talking about getting married and i accidentally said that we get to marry Lalakis. which means guys. our investigator is a dude so it was really wierd. well i should have said that we can ONLY marry Babaye(which is women). awkward... haha
so another one. well after one of the devotionals, it started to snow. so i was gazing out the window just watching the snow, and i started dancing a bit. nothing to big or nothin but kinda like a snow summoning dance. so all of a sudden it went quiet in the classroom. so i turned around to see a member of our branch presidancy just standing there with a huge smile of his face. it was sooo funny. after he left i was like, "why didnt you guys warn me or something??? they said that they were NOT going to miss that oppertunity. haha pretty darn funny :)
Ummm dude...you said that you'd send some pictures last week....we waited everyday for the mailgirl to deliver some and she didn't...SEND SOME PICTURES!!!
ok so i had the pics and whatnot all printed out and ready to send but then i just didnt. i either forgot to or something happend where is was weird. i dont remember. but ill get em out today.
Can you believe that you're going to be going soon? like less than 2 weeks? Anything you want to stock up on?
well just for the plane ride and what not, gummies might be great. um send some more toothpaste. nuskin stuff is just dandy. OH my electric razor thing broke. the same thing that is broken on tys is broken on mine. so ive been able to make due but it hurts like the dickens.
I've ordered your pants and hopefully they'll be here before you go...
whoohoo:) happy day.
Cebuano word of the week....
Kangitngit. it means darkness. its super hard to say. (kah-ngit-ngit) the ng is like sing a song. try saying it in the back of the throat.
well hope you have just a happy super cold week! :) i am hosting (gather all the newbies that are dropped off at the curb from their families and take them inside and show them around...he will be someone else's "Elder Host") this wednesday. its gonna be cool! then we get our travel plans on thursday! im pumped!! we are almost outta here!!
Love Elder smith
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