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Ang Aking Unang Bagyo (My First Typhoon)

Hey y'all!

This week has been pretty wild! My companion and I haven't spent a ton of time together this week due to many exchanges with the District Leader, Zone Leader, and the Training Specialists. Exchanges are when 2 pairs of missionaries switch companions for a day. Exchanges are awesome because I get to see different teaching styles, different ways of missionary work, and I get to learn a little bit from each person I go on exchanges with! Because of all these exchanges, I have been practicing the First Lesson in Tagalog a lot. Getting evaluated and learning about what I need to fix and change to make the lesson flow better, and my Tagalog make sense. And I can actually teach the First Lesson in Tagalog now! It is still not perfect, and I have a lot to improve upon. But It is nice to be able to contribute in the lessons now! And not be that awkward American who can't say anything haha. 

This week I have also experienced my first Typhoon! It was a signal 4 and luckily it did not hit our area directly, but I still had to evacuate to Iriga. We were on exchanges with the training specialists in Cotnogan on Friday. Around 5 pm the sky went dark and the rain started to pour! Me and my companion were a 2 hour walk away from our apartment with no signal and no umbrellas. So we were soaking wet from head to toe. Luckily, we met a lady earlier in the day who drove past us again and yelled at us to hop on her little scooter. We gladly agreed and headed to the apartment! Once back, we packed up our things, met up with the other companionship and headed to Iriga. Because we were with the training specialist, we had a car. Which was a huge blessing! Because if we didn't have one, we would have had no way to evacuate to Iriga due to motorcycles and jeepneys no longer transporting people to and from places. Once in Iriga with the Elders from our zone. The storm started to get worse. Very rainy and very, very windy. So windy that part of a roof came off and nearly hit one of the other missionaries! We stayed in Iriga until Sunday morning, when the storm had past and it was safe to travel again. The storm was big and pretty scary actually. I am very glad it didn't hit us directly. And cause too much damage. 

But yep, that's the week!

Elder Morgan

P.S. I need to get better at taking pictures. Because I have none for this week.

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