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| I never thought that I would ever be getting two people married but that is what we did yesterday. Our investigator on the left wearing the white shirt has been an investigator for a long time but isn't married to his wife so we finally scheduled a day and when to the Justice Hall and got them married. Him and two of his kids will probably be baptized on June 10 if they come to church the next two weeks. |
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| The missionares from the puerto princesa zone. Our district became a stake recently and we had the first stake conference. Elder Boen, and area seventy came and it was a great stake conference. |
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| I think that on this point of my mission/life I can conquer almost any food. Here I am eating the philippino delicacy, "Balut" It is a fertilized duck egg and the duck inside is 17 days old. It was so gross but I can't really say I've been to the philippines if I haven't tried balut. It didn't taste to bad but there was definitely a duck inside and the texture was really gross. All philippinos like it and they eat it with salt and vinegar. |
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| This last week I went on exchanges with my district leader, Elder Rushton from Utah. We had to do something awesome so we went and ordered this huge pizza and ate the entire thing just ourselves. You can also see the near empty pitcher of fanta behind it. It was a fun exchange and after we were completely stuffed from eating this pizza we were forced to eat more food given to us by some members for their daughter's 1st birthday. I was stuffed. |
This last week was pretty adventurous in the area. We have been working a lot with finding less actives and part member families. I think that is really the only way to do it. It is so much easier to get a baptism if a member works with you or they have some connection to the church. One day we were looking for an inactive member but couldn't find him. The next day while we were out we stumbled upon him when we got invited to a birthday party dinner. It is cool how we eventually find the people we are looking for. We are now teaching his non-member wife.
We I had a good exchange this week with my district leader in my area. We worked really hard and rewarded ourselves with a huge pizza and ate the entire thing. It was pretty great and also pretty expensive. I will have to wait until next month before trying something like that again.
This last week our branch also became a ward The Puerto Princesa 1st ward. Our new bishop is an Australian who lives here with his philippino wife. He is the only white person in the whole ward. He also doesn't speak tagalog. Most people here are alright with English but there are some that don't speak it. I don't know what he will do when he has to interview someone who doesn't speak English.
Recently the other elders in the appartment have been talking about how I have never eaten Balut, a philippino delicacy. It is a fertilized duck egg with a real duck inside. One night we were walking down the street when a balut vendor was riding his bike toward us. My companion wanted to buy one. The vendor was a less active member and I told him I would buy one if he came to church that Sunday. Later that night we cracked open the balut and I gave it a try. I just don't know why people eat that stuff.
Love, Elder Harkness
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