So.. una sa lahat,
Happy New Year to everyone!
My parents asked me if new year was a big deal here in the Philippines and I'd like to answer that with a quote from my current Branch President yesterday in Sacrament Meeting. He said, "Happy New Year ulit po sa inyong lahat at sana pagdating ng next Sunday, buo pa rin ang mga darili po natin.. *snicker-snicker*" Which means, "Happy New Year again (respect kwan) to you all at hopefully when arrived next sunday, whole still is our fingers" Which in english means, Happy New Year again to all of you and hopefully when we come back again next sunday, we all still have our fingers. hahaha So "sa madaling salita" New Years is a big deal here and it's quite the dangerous holiday. Every year there's more than a handful of deaths from fireworks.. Some Filipinos think its crazy and dangerous but others, especially children take pride in making their street look and sound like a war zone. And just to kinda like add to how intense it is....I wasn't the one that described it as a war zone.. thats the people here..
Has it already been 6 months for Elder Grob doing the finances? That seemed to fly by.
Yeah I think it has been like 6 months actually... super weird! I don't know if I mentioned it last time.. actually I just remembered I did but yeah there's a new guy in the office. He's super cool. I always called Elder Grob sunshine so Elder Record gets a nickname too and I dubbed him supastar. So yeah... Fun fact of the day!
So how are the activation efforts going? Can you do splits with members to cover more ground?
Hey now that would sound like a great idea right?? Well.. it would be great except... no one wants to help. Well they all say they want to help but no matter how many times we request visiting teachers or home teachers or just a member to go with us to meet the less-active....nothin. But as far as mine and Elder Orth's efforts its going super good! We're teaching some really good lessons and seeing some progression and its really exciting. We're literally watching these people repent and change their lives even just a little and its really great to have the opportunity to see it and share the gospel with them. I really consider it a privilege to teach these people, especially the less-actives because this is a chance to help someone really experience conversion and lasting change for the better. Because "true doctrine understood changes behavior faster than even a study of behavior can change behavior." So that's what we're really trying to do.
Umm... sorry talaga sa superrrr short email but I gotta get going! We have an early curfew tonight... hahaha But I hope you enjoy the pictures from:
Rocelyn's baptism! (ex-baptist missionary and now essentially a LDS missionary! She's so awesome! Sharing the gospel and everything!)
Kuya Wilson! -- he was the 2nd counselor of the bishopric in Manda 2nd and superrr cool! His sister is sister janice from coron and so we've kinda had like a automatic bond from that cuz he was actually baptized in coron back when his family were the only members there and there were no missionaries or anything.
I also saw the Dingco's! And that's Daniel Dingco who has finally been baptized! Me and Elder Handy started teaching him...well more like he finally started listening to us cuz we were always at their house and then him and arthur got baptized a few weeks after I left ternate.
And then we had a lot of fun on the jeepney after temple tour...
And one of our ward missionaries got her mission call to Bagio!
And Elder Cayme created the san gab zone on the chalk board.. that's us!
So I hope you all have wonderful new years! Be safe!
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