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A Typhoon in the Middle of Summer!

Hey yall! 

What an absolute amazing week it has been! It has been filled with funny stories and crazy experiences. We started off this week having a great day of missionary work. We were teaching and serving the amazing people of the Philippines, when all of the sudden we got a call from the Zone Leaders. They told us a big Typhoon was on its way to hit our area... we were instructed to pack up for 3 days, and go to Lagonoy ( a bigger city outside of our area. ) We were told to not leave Lagonoy until instructed otherwise. So we didn't. As the night went on we were really expecting so to see a big typhoon start to take way, but it didn't happen. There was a little bit of rain fall and some wind but, that was it. The next day came by and there still was no typhoon... we were wondering what to do. Do we work? Do we go back to our area? We ended calling the Zone Leaders, and they said to stay in Lagonoy until everything had passed. So we stayed and worked in their area. 

As a District Leader one of my duties is to hold exchanges (meaning, we swap companions for the day we another pair of missionaries) with other missionaries in my district. So we used this as an opportunity to hold exchanges. I went with Elder Cisneros and we started to get to work! We taught some really good, spiritual lessons. We even found some new people who were interested about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was an awesome day to be a missionary. 

The "typhoon" didn't get much worse. So we finished up work for the day and headed home. The following day we woke up early and headed to our area, and continued work as usually. It turns out the typhoon hit a little bit harder in our area. We were tracting and came across this older lady trying to fix her roof. We saw that she was struggling a little bit, so of course we offered to help. Turns out,  the wind took off her roof the night before. She being an older lady, and having no electricity had to wait until the next day to fix it. Meaning that she was trying to sleep through the wind and rain with no roof over her head! From what we gathered from the information we received, she didn't have the best night of sleep... But, this led to a great service opportunity and an even better opportunity to share the gospel! I also learned how to make a roof out of coconut leaves! 

That's just one of the stories from this week. I miss you all and hope you are doing amazing!

Elder Morgan







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