Super crazy week this week! A lot happened but i'll try my best to sum it all up in an email.
We had our interviews with President Ostler this week! We ended up waiting at the chapel for 9 hours just studying and watching the approved church movies it was actually very enjoyable! I had a great interview with President and got to know him better and he is incredible. We left to return to our apartment at around 6 pm.
We found this cool horse statue on our way to the shuttle back home!
Our shuttle actually broke down on the way so we had to switch shuttles and so it took about an hour to get home and we were exhausted. We were just chilling in our apartment and I was talking to one of my roommates, Elder Sanchez (The Elder in my picture above) and all of a sudden our whole apartment started swaying. I thought it was Elder Sanchez shaking my desk at first but I looked up and everything was starting to topple over and I had no idea what to do. I had never experienced an earthquake before! After our apartment stopped shaking we grabbed our 72 hour kits and headed outside. There were tons of people evacuated out of the building and we waited there for about 40 minutes until it was safe to go back inside. We went up 10 stories of stairs and it really sucked. But i'm still alive!
We also had our Zone meeting on Thursday and I love seeing our zone they're super chill and give really good advice!
We finally got to watch general conference and they announced another temple that will be close to our mission! Unfortunately I might not be here by the time they finish building it :( But it's a great symbol of the gospel progressing here in the Philippines!! I appreciated general conference 10x more as a missionary, I felt such a burning desire to progress this work and it was such a priviledge hearing from our church leaders and living prophet! When we returned from watching general conference at the chapel on Saturday to our surprise ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. We joined the people who had evacuated and we waited another 40 minutes to return to the apartment.
THEN ANOTHER 10 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS. My legs still burn.
During the Sunday session of General Conference I was able to watch conference with some family! This is my cousin JT and his wife Mona and their beautiful family! I got to meet my little cousins for the first time and i'm pretty sure they read at a higher reading level than me already... General Conference is amazing and it's even better when you have family with you!
That just about sums up my week, crazy but so enjoyable! I love you all have an amazing week and the church is true!!
Elder Burdeos
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