The past week has been productive, though filled with many weird, wacky or bizarre moments. We received transfer news this past Saturday, and no one from my apartment was transferred! So Elder Torsak and I get to stay together for at least another 6 weeks, and I get to finish his training. :) I am especially grateful for this since Elder Torsak and I get along really well and become better friends and a more united companionship day by day. So even sometimes when it feels like the people we are teaching are not progressing as fast as we want, at least I can see my companionship and companion progressing.
We were able to find quite a few new people to teach this past week, which was good considering how much of a struggle that had been the past few weeks. These new people range from construction workers to drug overdose survivors to bakla. It's always hard to tell which of these people are the legitimately interested ones... but we'll keep visiting, teaching and figure that out. We are also teaching a man, Reo Navarro, who has actually come to church a few times now and has an adorable family with two little girls. I'm hopeful that he will ultimately choose to be baptized, but the situation is a little tricky because he's not married to his partner...so we're trying to help him build his testimony and desire to keep all the commandments. I can tell that our testimonies are having some effect on him, but he has to find his own testimony of the truth before he will really decide to move forward. Before I arrived in the Philippines, I heard plenty of crazy stories about crazy animals that live here. Thus far, the stories have proven to be mostly true. On a daily basis, we kill at least two or three massive cockroaches in our apartment and every few days there's a giant spider to go with them. The dogs in Baguio are also nuts, and seem to be literally everywhere you go. So much fun. :)
Thank you all so much for the emails, videos and pictures! I appreciate so much getting to see you all! Please take care of yourselves!
Love, Elder Dickison
Media!
1) Elder Torsak and I were trying to follow up on a referral. All we found was a pit full of dogs, which we ultimately chased off and took a companionship victory selfie.
2) There was a giant spider on the inside of a mesh cupboard, so we shined a light through it and make an makeshift spider signal. :)
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