Mount Mayon is exploding like crazy and thousands of people are being evacuated

So this week was just spent trying to find people to teach, but the hate in this area is RAGING. EVERY ONE knows the "Mormons" and all of the different pastors talk bad about us to their congregations. We are learning from a lot of people that we talk to on the street that their pastors actually pull out the Book of Mormon in their churches and teach the people why it's not true and why this church is a cult. So pretty much everyone we talk to is really mean to us, and everywhere we go, people just run inside and refuse to come out of their houses. Our power is growing by the day haha.

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I'll just give some weird updates that aren't really missionary related, because we don't have much work anymore since all the peeps here hate us. But Rowena Ramos (13 years old) got a job that makes her work 15 hours every day, and in that entire 15 hours, she gets paid 50 pesos. THAT'S THE EQUIVALENT OF ONE AMERICAN DOLLAR PEOPLE!! The poverty is real out here. But even for the Philippines, that rate is WAY low, so we told her she should quit, and then she did. So happy ending I guess.

What else? Oh, Mount Mayon is exploding like crazy and thousands of people are being evacuated, but we are just chilling over here on our little island super far away from all of the problems. Good thing that we got assigned here in Masbate during this time.

Do you see the color of the water that she's swimming in?

You see how it's like gray colored? That's not from the camera,

that's literally the color of the water because of all the sewage

that's drained into that water. Literally she's just swimming in

sewage. #thuglife