july 30, 2012

i'm ok with the transfer, i'm starting to feel capable of doing everything that i've been assigned with. it's a hard situation that i've been put into (follow up training, district leader, newly opened area) but i can do hard things.

so last week, i stated that i hate elder reyes. he was a former companion who i had a lot of problems with when i was assigned in himamayalan. a little background information; the first week we had companion studies, the only thing he did was tell me that i suck at the language. he never helped me improve at the language. when i was there, he had a problem with visiting 1 family every night that started a bunch of gossip, the girl had a big crush on him and always was touching him. he always taught old people that couldn't walk or go to church and never progressed in order to get high numbers. he always used the name sungi for a kid with a cleft lip and made me think that it was his name. he coughed (purposefully to get attention) during prayers. he would read letters sent to members that he was supposed to give to them. when members would give him letters to send, he would read them and wouldn't send them. he was always sucking up to his former companion who was the AP at the time even though he always talked bad about him. he would never be serious and was loud and obnoxious. he didn't have any desire to share the gospel, his only desire was to get high numbers so that he would look good. i taught all the lessons, and i correlated with the ward, whenever we would have council, he would just make me do it even though he didn't give me any time to prepare. the members didn't like or trust him, the bishopric hated him. the missionaries that i've talked to about him all hate him. i won't name names but over 20 missionaries don't like him.

all this, i was ok with. i understood that he has faults and weaknesses and that no one is perfect but recently i found out that the missing planner that i had been looking for was thrown outside by elder reyes. i sat out in the open where rain would get on it and destroy it. he KNEW that i was looking for it because i asked him for it. he lied and said that he didn't see it. now my planner is ruined, lost, destroyed or whatever but i can't get it back. there was absolutely no reason that he had to throw it outside. any one of the other elders in the house could have sent it, he could have left it in the house. he purposely threw it out for no reason except that he is a gago nga soplado nga tinalok nga jerk. growing up, he had the privileged filipino life (which is still poorer that the average american life) because his father is a high rank in the military. the truth of the matter is that his family is corrupt. his family has had a lot of publicity here in the Philippines because of attacks and money embezzlement. because of his privileged life, in his mind, he feels that he is better than everyone else. but he's not. many of the rich people here in the Philippines think of themselves as better because they are surrounded by poor people and so automatically assume that they are better than everyone -americans included- even if they are still poor by american standards. he's the worst missionary that i've seen on my mission. i've seen some very bad and disobedient missionaries but at least they don't try to cover it up and lie about their disobedience at least they were still nice and had common courtesy. he on the other hand is a disobedient jerk that pretends to be obedient. he would announce the rules to everyone and then not do it himself. many missionaries hated him too, i'm not the only one. before i met him, i was told about him and i didn't like what i heard and now that i've been with him, i know that everything that i heard was true. well that's all that i have to say about him.