Colgate

Hey Fam,
Well first off, I felt a lot better this week than last week! I didn't throw up at all and have been feeling great again:) We had a super good week this week as I have been trying to help prepare Elder Bongalon to probably lead the area next transfer. I have been here in Caloocan for 3 transfers now so I think there is a decent chance I'll get transferred. We have zone interviews this Wednesday though so I will probably find out there. I am excited for zone interviews this week! At zone conference President challenged us to memorize scripture references for every single gospel doctrinal point in PMG. That is 42 points. Last interview we had each point memorized in order, but now we have to pull out a scripture in the BOM that backs them all up. I have them all just about memorized, some of them I have 3 or 4 for too:) It has made lessons a lot better too I think! Whenever somebody doesn't understand a topic, I have the knowledge in the BOM now to help them out. Also when we are just sharing spiritual thoughts with families we can use a lot of the same scriptures that apply to them.

We had a baptism this week for Princess! The baptism went smoothly and all I had to do was the opening prayer haha. Brother Tripz, our ward mission leader was playing the piano and he kept adding random notes at the end of every song, it was pretty funny. He is my favorite! Actually I was thinking about it earlier today, my ward here is soooo awesome. Like I started naming off all the people in my head that I would miss if I left and the list kept going on and on.

This week we had 7 investigators at church. It was super good to see 3 of them there for their first time:) We also had a less active family come that hasn't come once since I have been here, but came bc we taught them a good little lesson on Thursday.

There is a guy in our ward named Leo, he had a stroke a couple years ago and can't walk anymore. He always just sits in his tiny house and has no family there with him. We go and visit him quite often to help him out with stuff and give him blessings when he is sick. Well yesterday we brought him a poster of the manila temple we printed at a shop and hung it on his wall for him. He was so freaking nice about it!! He is super excited to have that be the first thing he sees every morning. He just stared at it for like 40 seconds and was like "dang I really miss that place." (except in Tagalog lol) But he just bore his testimony to us and it was dope.

Haha funny story, today when we were playing b-ball a ton of the young men came too. They were all calling me Colgate because I never stop smiling. Then one of them started calling me Messi because I kept juggling the basketball in between games lol. I megged one of the kids and they lost their minds... again! Haha it is my favorite move to pull on them when we are playing b-ball.

I love my mission! I love the new rule that I will be able to call my fam! Last week was fun even though you couldn't see or hear me haha! We'll get it figured out haha:) Love and miss you guys!

-Elder Reber