Tuesday, May 22, 2012

16 September 1999

Here I am in Dulag, my fourth area.  I am the district leader, and I'm Elder Werner's first follow-up trainer (a follow-up trainer, in Tacloban, was any companion to an uncertified missionary after his trainer).  He has been in the mission for two-and-a-half months now.  His Waray-Waray isn't that great, so these next couple of weeks should be fun.  I think I'll be able to pick Waray up pretty quickly.  I was surprised by how much I actually understood as we worked this afternoon.  I can't speak it, and I, of course, don't understand it nearly as well as I do Cebuano, but if I study hard and ask the Lord for help, I shouldn't have many problems.  I think I'll enjoy this area, too.  The people here seem very nice.  There's this one group of dalagas (young single women) in our teaching pool who are really cool.  They accepted me as Elder Carlson's replacement quite readily.  I actually spoke quite a bit to them.  I spoke Cebuano with a bit of Waray mixed in, and they spoke Waray with a bit of Cebuano mixed in.  It was cool.

I still miss Almeria a lot, though.
Elder MacKenzie and Elder Werner

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