Halo ang aking mga minamahal sa buhay,
First of all parents... in the states "Halo" is an incredibly overplayed and not terribly exciting video game. Secondly, in the Philippines... Halo means mixed.. When ever dad comes over here I'll be sure that he eats a halo-halo. Actually, chances are he'd actually like it.. #DadsWeird Third, thanks for trying. haha Okay sorry for being hard on you but thats just how I roll.. sometimes.. kinda.. yeah....
Well this email is going to be pretty short cuz we have like zero time today.. sorry! First preparation day of the transfer and we had a lot of stuff we had to get done..
What does OYM stand for? As in "a rather hilarious OYM we had the other day".
It means "Open Your Mouth" as in times where you talk to someone to share the gospel. I'm not very good at it.. still kinda how I was in not a big fan of starting conversations with people I don't know... but I've gotten a tonnn better since coming on the mission!
So how is your new companion, eh? How long has he been out, eh?
ha. ha. ha. You see, my companion's Canadian.. So my new companion is Elder Orth from British Columbia a town called Cranbrook. He's pretty cool. He's been out only about 14 months and this is his third area. He's kinda different than Elder Tenny but at the same time we've gotten tight like right away so its been pretty cool. I like being a ZL cuz it means that your companion is definitely going to be good, so thats always a plus.
Is it unusual that other than when you were on Coron you've only had English speaking companions?
Umm.. I think so.. haha But some of that was thrown off cuz of my time in the office.. But I know there's at least another missionary that's only had three transfers of Filipino companions. At least this one's not American, he's Canadian.. haha Another interesting thing is though of all my american companions only two have been from utah the missionary capital of the world.. haha
So how is Brother Marvin doing?
Brother Marvin is incredible! He went to church this week again. So we got to teach him again. It's awesome because our incredibly skilled, ex-district presidency counselor, Brother Balute has decided to be his fellowshipper. So we got to teach him again after church and it was awesome. Brother Balute was there and we taught the Restoration. I actually invited Brother Balute to teach about Joseph Smith because 1. I felt like trash that day, so I couldn't talk too much. (don't worry I'm getting better) 2. Sometimes people only allow the members to share their testimony at the end but I feel that you should involve them much more. Especially when its someone of his caliber because when he gets to teach and not just bear testimony it will increase Brother Marvin's testimony that someone else other than these two missionaries knows its true. And it will increase his trust in Brother Balute and increase Brother Balute's desire for Brother Marvin's conversion. And I was also thinking that because Brother Balute was so involved in the lesson it will increase his desire and his excitement to share the gospel with more people, opening the doors for referrals down the road. So it was really cool! I testified of living prophets and apostles and showed him the picture from the conference edition of the Liahona that I carry around with me to him. He thought that that was really cool and even noticed at the bottom of the page where it listed the Presidency of the Seventy. He's like so you guys have a seventy too?? I was like yeah! Just like Christ's church in the Bible! And he thought it was really cool because he remembered reading about the seventies organized and sent forth to teach the gospel. So we're super excited for him. We've got a branch Christmas Party on Thursday and he said he's going to attend so its going to be great! We also have a mission christmas party that day so its going to be a pretty sick day.. haha
So the dinner pictures, was that a zonie council meeting dinner?
Yes.
haha
So with my short time I'm goin have to close this.. sorry! But I might suggest something that guys can do that I've really appreciated lately. Every night before I go to bed I review the day and I look for at least three times in which I saw the hand of the Lord in my life. I look for little blessings that I wasn't expecting or people's hearts being softened or ideas given to me to share or words given to me to speak or things that happened to me to in the past that perfectly applied to something today or just anything like surviving a tricycle ride from a fairly obviously intoxicated driver.. haha! I suggested this idea to one of our LAs that actually just officially returned this Sunday.. Yay! and she thought it was an awesome idea and said she was going to try it. At first actually it was kinda hard to pick those things out but I know that the Lord's hand is in all of our lives and we'll see it more and more as we look for it and as we become grateful receivers of the Lord's gifts like President Uchtdorf kinda talked about at the Christmas Devo. But as I've been looking better for the Lord's hand I see it more and more all over the place and I'm extremely grateful for it.
So I hope you all have wonderful weeks!
Love
Elder Michael Gadberry
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