August 19, 2014 Email
Hi, I'm on.
I'm doing ok. I don't get a lot of food, but I can always use a diet. The people here are very nice. I've been called as Elders Quorum 1st Assistant, and I'm speaking in church next week. Kinda miss pillows, but I have shoes. It's so pretty here. Rice fields everywhere. I get to eat frog this week! Air- conditioning. What a blessing. One that I'll get back in the states. Its super hot. I love it here.
My tatays been out a year. we have a lot people we teach. One of our investigators is pretty old and might have a lung tumor. He's a very polite man and takes the lessons well, but he's living with a woman who's not his wife. So we still need to teach LOC (Law of Chastity). There's no divorce here because its too expensive, so there's a lot of LOC problems because people just leave instead. Then they can't get married again so they live with each other.
We teach a lot of Law of Chastity Lessons, that and Word of Wisdom. But there's a lot of active young men. They're very good and activating each other.
Did you know they love basketball here?
Cool story, There was a person from The District? He's
Filipino. So after he gets baptized he had some struggles. Then goes back to the Philippines because his dad has bad health. So he was inactive. My tatay(trainer) meets him on the street and he reactivates him and baptizes his family and now he's an Elders Quorum pres. He was even sealed in the temple.
Here is our bathroom. The bucket by the toilet is for bathing and toilet paper.
It is so tropical here. In the city you could probably find most of the stuff that you'd have in the states. But I'm out in the sticks with the farmers, so no real stores. They have small shops at some of the houses we get food from. We'll eat breakfast or lunch at our house then most nights we'll eat with a member or we'll cook something. Yeah most people can't afford to feed us even though they'd borrow food from the store for us if we let them. Oh yeah it's poverty here. Our poverty is super rich to them.
There are just the two of us where we live. Our house is connected to the church here and there's an Air Conditioning box in the president's office so every night a lot of the young men come and sleep in his office. We visit most nights for the Air Conditioning. We have doors but no handles. Windows but they're open. screens but they have holes. But I feel safe. It's a nice community. They don't have any locks on the houses here, but I feel safe. Their familiar with missionaries, and I'm bigger then everyone.
In our home, the lizards are fine. I don't care too much for the mosquitoes and cockroaches. Oh and I stuck my foot in my shoe this morning and found a big toad.
The camera is working great!
Cool story, my tatay had us do unofficial splits yesterday, so I went with some youth and taught four lessons. I'm going to boast in my God a little because I did pretty well and I've only been here four days.
We're heading out so talk to you next week. Love you
- Elder Colt Williams
PS, Could you send me pictures of the Ogden Temple Open House?
