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 you