Well, this day is turning out to be a real winner. First of all, I need someone to interview Maria Rosa tomorrow for her baptism on Saturday. Since the zone leaders are involved in transfers tomorrow, I figured I'd get Elder Clark to do it. So we went to Mayorga this morning. We got there before 9:00, but they weren't there. I left a note. Hopefully, everything will turn out. We came home and had companionship study. It was very stressful. We did half an hour of language study. His Waray-Waray sucks. He has been in the field for almost a month now; he should be speaking a lot better than he is. He forgets everything that I teach him. He learned hardly any Tagalog in the MTC, and that makes it hard to teach him Waray. I try to build on basic things he should have learned in the MTC, but he doesn't know those things. The only Tagalog he knows are direct translations of English slang. I was reviewing stuff with him this morning that we've gone over many, many times, and he was getting upset because he had no clue what I was talking about. After one week in the field, I was speaking better Cebuano than he speaks Waray-Waray after three-and-a-half weeks, and my trainer was still green.
LATER
Wow, we taught two unplanned discussions today. We taught the second discussion to Jocelyn Gabon, a referral from Sister Riparip. When I invited her to be baptized, she said, "I will if my husband does." The problem is, her husband works from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm every day, and there are no rides going out to Alegri in the evening. This may be troublesome.
We taught the fifth discussion to Nilda and Jona Aucila this evening. It went pretty good. They're smart girls. After the discussion, I started talking about baptism. They said baptism was good, so I invited them to be baptized. They still aren't sure. They brought up the old "I've already been baptized" thing, so I brought up the fact that faith and repentance need to precede baptism, and babies don't have faith and need no repentance. Then I left them with a reading assignment: Moroni chapter 8.
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