"Getting Pumped!"

Wow what a week haha. spent most of the week with the zone leaders and it was good. we met with a lot of good people and its always a good time with them. we had a good time! so im guessing your all waiting to hear about my new comp eh? haha oh man he's a stud. Elder Azores from the southern philippines i think like down by cebu so pretty far but he is great and has already taught me a ton. he's way good at teaching and helps me with the language. he speaks way good english and gets american humor haha so we've already been laughing a ton. i'm way pumped for this transfer and hope it doesn't go by to quick cause we're having tons of fun. one thing he taught me is that we can do the work and do it right and be obedient but still have fun while doing it. haha im way pumped!!! should be a great transfer. we had a area broadcast and the area presidency announced the new focus to all the philippines and i'm way excited cause our ward is on board and is willing to help us a ton. our bishop is fired up and so we just need to take advantage of the great opportunity and get some work done! i've truly been blessed by the lord this week cause i saw a improvement with my tagalog. it really helped me grow some confidence. i still have a long way to go with it but i know it's coming slowly but surely which is great! this week was so good! a spiritual experience that happened this week is we where teaching this less active and she used to be way in the church had a bunch of callings and was a strong member. anyways she married outside and started to fall away its been awhile since she's come to church and so we were trying to help her and figure out whats wrong. cause we've visited with her before and she hasn't really said anything to us. but this time she opened up and broke down. it's amazing to see the spirit work on these people. i've realized that one of the biggest thing us missionaries can do is bring back that spirit in there home and try to re-kindle that flame! it's great to see when people feel that spirit and it humbles them. the spirit was really strong in there and i know she was feeling it. we ended up giving her a blessing and she said she really needed one. hopefully we see some progress out of her and see her come back to church. so it was really neat. one thing kind of sad though is the koreans haven't been to church in 2 weeks now. we weren't able to visit them because they had exams this week. they've been being taught since like july so it's to the point where their not really progressing cause there not coming to church and we've taught them everything and some things over and over. we may have to drop them but were going to go visit them this week and see whats up. it broke my heart to see them not at church. but we'll do whatever it takes to help them. all in all its been a great week! can't complain one bit! things are really starting to get better and im getting pumped about being out here! i love you guys so much. Mahal Kita Elder Machen