I figured out the secret. I just don't think about what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna say, or what's gonna happen to me. Rather I think about what He's gonna do, what He's gonna say or what will happen to Him if I screw this transfer up! That's what I need to do. Forget myself. Then the sickness, the worries, the things I don't like, go away.
Another week in the books and another new companion for me to torture. ha ha. Just kidding! On Tuesday morning I accompanied Elder Memes to the Bus Station in Olongapo, I shipped him off up north to Iba, then I hung out till about 1 and I went to the mission home. We had trainers training till Thursday when we came back to our areas with our new companions. During the training we were instructed on how to be better teachers and how to help the new missionaries start off their missions well. My new companions name is Elder Cagayanan, he's from Bacolod, that's the same place that Elder Memes was from, but they didn't know each other. However, he does speak the same language as Elder Memes. He's kinda shy but I can already see him coming out of his shell. He's a good kid and I think we did pretty well for only being able to work for a couple days this week. We are working on getting a good relationship with the bishop.
We started working on Friday afternoon, because in the morning we had a district leadership training so Elder Cagayanan got to hear about all the problems of the districts in our zone on his first day! Great ha ha. But he can't quite speak fluent Tagalog so I still have to help him a lil but he is humble and teachable. I know he will adjust right away and have no problems. He will also start helping me with district leader stuff so he will know what he is doing when he becomes a district leader.
It is really fun being a trainer. At the training President Aquino said that our trainees will be a carbon copy of us, I commented "oh that's not good." he replied quickly, "well not of your face." It was funny, everyone got a good laugh out of it. I was suffering from sleep deprivation so I wasn't exactly doing my top notch work; I think President noticed and I think he was a little irritate/worried. He told me as I was walking by him that I needed to "step up." I'm still trying to figure out exactly what he meant but it will come to me. No worries! I'm rested up now and back to 100%.
On a sad note, yesterday morning we were going to one of the members house to get a ride to church and we came upon a wreck on a very busy highway. It happened in front of a military base so the military were the first on the scene and they knew what they were doing. I saw a man laying there and I'm pretty sure that he wasn't breathing, or if he was he wasn't for very long after I saw him. It was a pretty bad sight. When we went back to see what happened, we learned that one of the people was drag racing on the highway when one tried to overtake another and got into a head-on with another motorcycle. I just hope that the innocent one wasn't the one I saw. Moral of the story: Don't do anything stupid. Seek for things that will bring eternal happiness not a momentary thrill; especially when other peoples lives could be at stake as well.
To end on a good note, we have a baptism next week so that should be really good. I'm excited and hopefully I can get the kids to let Elder Cagayanan baptize them so I don't have to. Then Elder Cagayanan can experience it. ha ha.
I love you all.
Elder Westwood
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