Training

This was a great week. We had such good experiences this week. It was a little weird because the batch ahead went home. One of the elder's parents came here to pick him up and visit his areas. I got to talk to them and it was weird. They have a very thick accent and I didn't understand what they were saying some of the time. It was weird. They asked "Where are you from?" and I said "Utah" and then they said "We know that but what part?" and it was weird because usually people are ok with that. I didn't know what to do. It was like culture shock all over again!
This week I worked in Tabugon from Monday until Wednesday. I stayed with them for that time since I didn't have a companion. Wednesday was off to Bacolod to pick up Elder Liquiran. I picked him up on Thursday and went back to the area and was finally able to work.
Elder Liquiran is from Pangasinan. He speaks Tagalog. We have fun trying to talk to each other. I try to talk in a ruff Tagalog language and he tries to do the same in English so we understand each other but it sometimes takes a while before we get what the other is saying hahaha. He is really great though. He is picking up Ilonggo really quick. I am surprised. He is a really quick learner. He is going to be a great missionary.
As far as investigators go, we didn't get much teaching in so it was a little bit hard but we did alright. Baliguat will actually be baptized on October 25. They wanted to be baptized as one family unit so we moved them so they can. We needed more time anyway because we are still trying to help sister with praying. She is struggling learning how to pray so we are helping her to learn. The Gaston family we haven't taught all week. They found some work and haven't been home because of work so we haven't taught them for a while now. We are going to keep trying so that we can continue. Brother Sabico we didn't see either. He has been busy and we haven't had time to go there so we will see if we can teach him this next week. We did get to teach Brother Carbadilla. He is willing to do everything but  hasn't come to church for a while so we are working on him again to get baptized. We are working on finding a fellowshipper for him to help him. Adrian's and Bryan's mom said that they couldn't be baptized. We still need to talk to her so we are hoping to do so this week to help them. They really want to be baptized but we need her permission and it would be great if she would join as well.
We are getting excited for General Conference as well. Our bishop is going to ask the stake president if we could do a showing in Tapi so that it would be closer for everyone to see. If that doesn't happen it will be in Kabankalan which will be hard for the members because it is 64-66 pesos for 1 person to attend which is really expensive. We are hoping it will just be in Tapi to make it easier for the members and our investigators because they will want to go attend as well.
This week I will be going to Manila. We have to do fingerprinting there so we can return to the USA and while we are there we get to go to the temple!!!! I am excited to go to the temple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love you all,
Elder Nielsen