Cringe

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Hey everyone! So missionary work has been affected a little bit due to the chaos. Kinda crazy hey? Like they are cancelling everything now. Elder Cooper and I are kinda bummed cause we are having a great time here in Banacao. The members here are super helpful and the people are awesome. We pull the same jokes on them like everyday while they are just sitting around and they laugh every time. 

We went on exchanges this week, I worked in the most dangerous part of the mish. It's pretty corrupt there, the governor lives there and has this mansion, a maclaren, lamb, rarri. Super rich, then the rest of the people live in these shacks. Idk how the government works, but something doesn't seem right. Its super political here too. People get shot all the time.
Corona has been kind of a cringe, everyone is freaking out about it. We had to go to the grocery store to buy a 2 week stock of food, we waited in line for 4 hours to buy it. The people are like closing other stores and atms are closing now so idk how we are gonna live. Hopefully it'll calm down. 

Elder Cooper and I are having a great time together, if I wasn't with him right now it would be rough hahah. 

We have some solid people that are preparing for baptism. the only thing is we can't attend church now, so we just administer the sacrament to them yesterday. We taught about the importance of remembering God in the hard times and good times. He knows all. And loves us so much :) 

Hope everyone is safe,
Elder Garry
some family that was taught by missionaries before

pinakamakulit na mga bata

Bañacao Members!!

Bike ride early at 11am

Praying mantis!!

Joseph and Jamie! The best talaga

Exchanges with La Paz Elders

Blaza Family

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