happy new year. well new years was just another night for me. we had to go home early, which i liked, and we cooked sweet and sour pork. we did a good job at that. transfers came and went a while ago and i'm still in Himamaylan. the city park had a lot of fireworks for sale that night and people everywhere build "cannons" (kinda like potato launchers except they have no potatoes) in order to make as much noise as possible that night. luckily our house is not near the town square, where everyone was shooting of fireworks. but there were still a lot of explosions. all the explosions mixed with the smoke from the sugarcane fields kinda made this place feel like a war zone. (they burn the fields after harvest to get rid of bugs and weeds)
a good snack that i want to cook when i get back is kombo - banana, egg, flour, sugar, deep fried.
through my experience trying to learn the language i have gone through many companions that didn't really help me very much. for the most part, i think that is what it will be like in any mission where the people don't speak a widely used language. hiligaynon is so uncommon that they don't even have a doctrine and covenants or pearl of great price. only the book of Mormon is translated. there also aren't any language objective books or even dictionaries for this language. well in my opinion, the best way to learn the language is first through using it, but then through study, is to read the book of Mormon in your mission language and translate it into English. it is a humbling experience because you are going through the exact same thing that Joseph smith did but you are also helped with the spirit. plus it's really deep.
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