Hello Family!
What a wonderful week it
has been! I feel like enough significant things happened that I could
have sent home a lengthy and story-filled report each day! Also, I'm tired.
So, so tired. And that's how it goes (: Exciting week though.
not only did we have a bike rider crash into us, but we had a mission
tour!
I'll start with the
crash. So we were on a tricycle going out to our area and I was on the
motor bike part facing sideways, my comp was in the side car bit. I was
fading to sleep (unbelievably I'm tied!) when I was jolted by a combined scream
then, "SMASH!" Followed by screeching metal! I looked in
front of the trike - a bike was skidding under the trike with a guy sliding
down the asphalt being torn on by the road as the driver desperately squeezed
with all his might the horribly out-dated brakes. "Angelo!",
was my first thought. (a member who we were going to work with). My comp
jumped out, trike still moving, thinking we were going to roll or something.
Long story short, all the old ladies (me included) we completely
speechless once we finally were able to come to a stop. Luckily though,
even though this guy's (not Angelo pala) bike was utterly ruined, he was able
to get up and move over to the side of the street. Then, after my comp
hopped back in, the trike driver just kept on driving as if that was something
completely normal. I wasn't tired after that! Apparently though,,
the biker tried to pass us after drafting for a while then when he passed us,
his foot slipped causing him to fall right in front us us then
"BOOM", we came ramming into him. ...next news is equally
exciting, but for different reasons:
Once a year, a General
Authority from the Philippines Area Presidency comes to each mission to hold a
"Mission Tour". They basically stay here for a few days and
meet with the missionaries. This year, Elder Nielson of the Seventy, the
President of the Church in all the Philippines, came to visit. On two of
the three days he was here, he help two all day meetings with the missionaries.
One for half of the mission, the other for the other half. We were
told to read a certain talk in preparation and also that 4 missionaries would
be randomly selected (regardless of gender, time in mission, etc.) to be
interviewed by President Nielson after the conference. Of course, along
with every other missionary, I was sure I'd not be picked to be interviews.
Well as we ate a snack upon closing the conference, I found out that I
was wrong! I was one to be interviewed! And so, I had my first, and
maybe last interview with a General Authority of the Church. I'd talk
more about it, but... I couldn't even begin to put this wonderful experience
into words.
Thus, after an amazing
interview with the Philippines Area President along with hitting a biker on the
street, my week was much more than the ordinary (extraordinary?). To add
to that, we had an investigator tell us all of these superstitious stories which
I just find to be fascinating. Also tons of people came to church and
within the next four weeks we'll know if this group is going to become a
branch! Plus many more stories for another day.
What I feel here must be
a bit like the Nephites of old did when Christ was praying for them, "And
no tongue can speak, neither can there be written by any man, neither can the
hearts of men conceive so great and marvelous things as we both saw and
heard.... and no one can conceive of the joy which filled our souls... (3 Nephi
17:17). That describes my week. Hope it's fitting for yours as
well!
Love, Elder Shane Scully
Brown
Pictures -
1. A bridge over a
river.
2. Me with Max
Moncur and another elder who looks just like Jordan Rex! Way to go
RSM! (:
3. Me with
President Nielson and his wife.
4. Meeting
5. Elder and
Sister Wilcox are in charge of all of our supplies.
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