8/14

   This week we had interviews with the new mission president, President Fermanis.  We also had zone conference.  In my interview president asked me how long I have been on Palawan.  "9 transfers" I said.  He said that I will be going to Manila for sure this next transfer.  I can't complain though.  I will hit my year mark here about August 26.  I have been on Palawan longer than any other missionary here and there are about 60 of us.  He said there is still a chance that I might come back though.  He compares Palawan to the spirit world and Manila to the real world.  I think it will be fine though. 

     As for this week I have been a little bad with writing in my journal so it is a little hard for me to remember everything that happened.  Elder Gillette and I have been working really hard in the area and were able to get two investigators at church which is good for this area.  At zone conference I was able to talk with some of the elders in Quezon, my first area.  That area is still booming.  They had 23 investigators at church while my companion and my record while there was only 15 investigators at church in one Sunday.  I think it would be great to go back but foreigners aren't allowed to serve there anymore because of a terrorist group in southern Palawan that has gotten worse in the last 6 months.  The Quezon elders told me a family that I helped start teaching is now baptized.  It was the one family I wrote about way back I think in December about the wife who's dead mother told her that the true church would be the one that the first thing they talk about is God.  Its really cool because the first principle we taught them in our first visit was "God is our loving Heavenly Father".     

That is pretty much it for this week thanks for the emails.

Elder Harkness