Hello everyone,
I hope you all had a great week because mine was super hard... just kidding, but seriously I am super tired. But thats okay because I get to call you tomorrow! I can tell you how excited I am for skype, not that we just tested it out or anything... This week was rad because we had the baptism of Elmer Ewayan but it was a bummer too because our christmas baptism fell through. We caught him smoking so we have to postpone his baptism. But, my companion is doing great, he is getting a lot better at teaching and we get along well. Other than that life is good. We had a zone conference and my mission president gave me a snickers that was straight from america so I was pretty ecstatic about that. The zone conference was really good but super fast, the basically just told us not to stay inside so we don't get all depressed and then we watched the christmas devotional, which was good. We also had exchanges this week and Elder Moody and I went up into the jungle to teach some of my investigators and take some cool pictures for you guys. Hope you enjoy them. This week I have learned a lot. About myself and about the Lord. I am just starting to realize how the Lords ways are not our ways, He knows whats best and we need to align our will with His, not the other way around. Especially when we think we know whats best. We have such a limited understanding and he really is omnipotent and understands all things. We will have a little Christmas eve dinner tomorrow night at one of our recent converts so that should be fun. I am gonna try to get them to go caroling too, Filipinos have a tradition that every christmas they walk around and ask for money. I know... So I have been asked for money more times in the last 2 weeks than I have my whole mission. Christmas morning probably wont be much here because none of those packages have gotten here so we might be a little short but we will just celebrate late. haha I am gonna try and surprise my companion with some pancakes for breakfast and I bought him a few little gifts and wrapped them when he wasn't looking. Tis' the season! But, I am just feeling a little trunky right now and really want to skype so I am gonna have to go work hard tonight. I will call you on Christmas eve at 5 o'clock. This is California time.. I love you all so much and can't wait to see and talk to you. Lets all try to think about others this season and do something good for someone else. Oh yeah, Mom and Dad I need to ask you about an experience that you had early in your marriage that strengthened your testimony of tithing. Can you help me out? Love youMonday, January 6, 2014
December 1, 2013
Hey everyone,
Well words can't describe how PO'ed I am right now because I just wrote you a super long letter and then the computer shop crashed... The Philippines strikes again. I love you guys and Molly looks like the best looking kid in the family. I would write my entire email again but I don't have time sorry. I am ok this week was good and I love and miss you. To answer you questions mom, I can buy garments, pants, and shirts here for super cheap or just have them made. So its all good as long as I have money. Which I think I am ok on right now. Well, I cant wait to see your video that you made for me and I love and miss you so much. You are always in my prayers. Keep it real. Till next week
November 24, 2013
Hello,
I miss you guys! I am super jealous and a little bummed out right now because this is my favorite time of year and I won't be with you guys... again! Oh well next year I am gonna bring down the house. I am super excited for Kristi's baby to come too. I hope I get to see some pictures of little molly soon. Everything here in Bacolod mission is starting to fade back to normal and yeah we did get a lot of tacloban missionaries here but we are not allowed to talk to them about what happened. Some of them are pretty wrecked and had to start all over, all of their clothes and bags and everything are completely brand new. Which I think is kinda sweet.. But I still feel really bad for them. Hopefully hey can adapt quick and get back in the groove of things. Well, this week was pretty similar to last week but right now I am opening a new area called Hibaiyo in my district so I have to roll two sacraments every sunday and try to teach there too during the week which is not easy and it takes a big toll on the investigators in my area. But, the work is going forward and we have some baptisms coming up very soon! We had one yesterday and are excited about the progressing investigators we have. Now they just have to go to church!!! It gets hard to work with Philipinos sometimes, or all of the time but I love them. I hope you guys are having fun and keep doing missionary work. Save me some turkey too....
November 17, 2013
Hey everybody,
Don't know if this letter is gonna get to you because the power keeps going in and out here. This week was good. Just helping out after the storm. All of our service is just by area because the storm wasn't nearly as bad here as it was in Tacloban. Car, trees and houses blown over, only a few people dead so we got really lucky here compared to them. Some of their missionaries are showing up here today and they will probably be put in our zone because its one of two Cebuano zones here. We all had a meeting with President Lopez in Bacolod on Wednesday to talk about the storm and how we could help. We are just supposed to continue teaching and doing service so missionary work is still going on here. We did find a few new investigators this week through our service and got them to church on Sunday. Sorry but I couldn't get a lot of pictures of the damage because President told us not to take our cameras with us to get pictures of the damage. But I will send a couple pictures of the stuff close to my house. I think the couple missionaries have taken pictures and put them on facebook for you to see. As for food and stuff, we are pretty okay. We can still get clean water and I don't know why that mom freaked out because canned foods and rice is all we eat here anyways. We can still get pretty much anything we need here so you guys don't have to worry about us. I just feel super bad for the missionaries and people in Tacloban, they really got wrecked and I am not surprised that a lot of them are going home. Sorry I couldn't get you a letter on Wednesday but we just didn't have time to find a computer shop and email while we were in Bacolod. The place was packed with people. The last package that you sent wasn't there when I was in Bacolod but other missionaries are still getting theirs so I think the mail service is still okay. Most of the Philippines is still okay it's really just Tacloban and western visayas (us) that got hit. But we will all recover and life will keep going. I don't know what will happen with missionary work in Tacloban though because they closed the mission and I think its gonna be a long time before they can reopen it. Anyways, I love you guys so much, keep praying for the people of the Philippines, they need it. Tell Amy "good luck" with her job interview and tell everyone at grandma's how much I love them. And I am super stoked to get your christmas video and pictures. I hope that you are all doing okay and I can't wait to talk to you all on Christmas! Let me know if you want to skype or call because I don't have a skype and I don't know your username or anything. But, I love you guys, and I love missionary work. My trainee and I are killing it and hopefully we will see some baptisms here soon. Love you
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