Hey Family!
Happy Birthday Dad! How is your life? I'm glad you had a mighty fine birthday feast for your birthday. To celebrate your birthday, I made myself a pancake. It was good. I'm not exactly sure what you mean when you say my siblings made you an egg casserole. I hope that turned out good. But when you said hot corn. It just reminded me of these random people on the streets always selling corn. One day I want my companion to buy me corn and give me some and I want to then tell him to "GET THAT CORN OUT OF MY FACE!" But I don't know if that happen. Nonetheless, I think it is always to have a cob of corn on hand just in case we ever get mobbed.
So this week was really good. We worked hard and had a good time. On Tuesday we taught someone named Melchor Molina. He's a cool man. He is like 50 years old but he's the buffest pinoy guy I've ever seen in my life. It was okay teaching him when I was with Elder Jenkins, since Elder Jenkins is huge, but now I'm with Elder McClellan, who is also not very buff, so it's intimidating. But like Nephi, even though he is large in stature, he is a spiritual guy. I really like him because he really works hard to understand the scriptures. Like we had him read Moroni 10:3-5 and it took him like 20 minutes. He'd read a little. And explain it to us. He read it where it says, I exhort you... or Ginalaygayan ko kamo.. Then he said, "oh, here, he's exhorting us to do something. I don't know what yet. But he is "laygay"ing us to do it. So it's very important. I'm excited to see what it is!" It's funny. But last tuesday we took control and focused on why it's important to know the book is true. We had a member with us, Brother Pancho, he's on the High Council, and he shared the fruits of the gospel in his life with Melchor, and a little about blessings of temples and then we committed Melchor to come to church. It was really good. Melchor even wrote it on his calender for us!
We tried doing a lot more tracting this week. We did some in an area called North Fundidor without too much success. (I found out later our map in wrong and Fundidor isn't really our area.. so maybe that's why we didn't.) But anyway. That area is more richer houses and we actually talked to some people there. It was funny because I kind of made a weird mistake. We were tracting there and we went up to one house and called for people to come. The windows were dark so we couldn't really see anyone but they called and asked who we were. We called back and said we were missionaries. They asked what we wanted and we told them a little, or yelled at them a little. And then the lady called back and said, "Wala di ang amo." That means, the amo is not here. Now, in Ilonggo, amo is the word for monkey, which I knew. But I did notice she pronounced it different but I wasn't sure what she meant. I was pretty sure she didn't mean monkey but I went with that definition anyway. So I called back to her and said that we don't want to talk to monkeys, we want to talk to people. And then you just heard these little kids start laughing because of my mistranslation. I learned later that if you say amo like slower not a sudden stop on the o or whatever, it means boss! Anyway, that lady never came out to face us, so we just tried some different houses.
Another family we recently found I'm excited about is John and Mercy Patria. They are way good. The first time we went to there house John only had like 20 minutes before work so we said a quick prayer with them and taught them a quick version of the Restoration and closed with a prayer because he said he wanted to here. A couple days later we came back on his day off and he told us that after we prayed with him, something good happened at his work from the prayer, and so he was excited for us to come back today and share our message with him. It was a really good lesson. He was really making sure they understand and it was personal to them. They were excited about Eternal families too. I think they have a lot of potential. We just need John to be able to get Sundays off of work, which might be hard. But we'll work on it!
Sunday was intense. We left the house like an hour early to pick people up. Mostly everyone told us they would come later after us since at our ward we have priesthood first. And a lot of people come late. So it's hard to pick people up. We went to one family we had found Saturday night but they just sent us with the kids. So we were a little disappointed. At church we were sad because the people who said they'd come later didn't end up coming. But I was in church again, wondering what was stopping them, when some random kid came up to be... and bit me. He grabbed on hard right to my arm, and just pulled. Yeah, it kind of hurt. I didn't make any sounds because there was a speaker but finally I got him off me. My arm was bleeding a little. The mark is still here on my arm, about 24 hours later. what the? I was so confused. I looked over at the mom and she was like mouthing "Elder Burton I'm so sorry." I just started laughing. It was probably the most random thing that has ever happened to me. I don't know what I did! It might be because we used to visit their house but now that became the area of Elder Gowey and Elder Adams. And now we don't really go there. But after sacrament the mom felt bad and said she'd make me some Choco Balls, which is like this graham cracker chocolate powdered sugar stuff. My second favorite desert in the Philippines, but I think it's just that one lady, Lenema, who invented them. I don't know anyone else who makes them. But my first favorite is Mango Float, but I've only had that once. By the way, were you ever able to send some recipes to me? Yeah, so anyway, it was way random. But it made me laugh and feel happy. I realized we had worked hard and did what God asked us to do. And I feel good going to the Lord and telling him we did our best. So that is what we will do, and keep doing. It was a weird way that I received that realization, it was bit into me. I also hope that kid doesn't have rabies. Just kidding.
Well, that's about it. I love you. Take luck. And care for it.
Elder Burton
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