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I'm doing in the Philippines. haha In case you were wondering, concerned, or just slightly curious. I'm doin great! haha Whats that? The 100th week in a row that I've reported my status as "great." haha Sorry.. things dont change too much with me apparently.
Did you get our last package, the one with the white pull-over in it?
I did get it! Thank you!!! It got here just in time. It got here the same night the APs were doing exchanges with us, so just in time for the APs to eat all my food... haha just kidding.. It didn't get ubos-ed by them like that. But thanks again for that!
Why did it take you so long to get back from the temple? How did you get there? Pres. Baxter wanted to know how often you get to go to the temple?
It took us forever to get back from the temple cuz its pretty far away from us and the Philippines is super "ma-traffic" haha Going to the temple consists of a tricycle, then a jeepney, then a bus, then walking a while to get there. Coming back you take a shuttle, then a bus, then a jeepney, then a tricycle. Plus buses have routes in which sometimes they take longer routes to make better money via picking up more people. So its not the fastest trip home, especially when there's traffic. We get to go to the temple a lot! Its usually about once a month but at the very least once a transfer. Its nice.
So did the Baptist missionary lady decide to get baptized?
Yeah she's pretty committed to be baptized. She said she'll be baptized before the end of the year. She's doing awesome still but is kinda frustrating too cuz after that awesome answer to her prayer....she didn't go to church. After going to the temple tour Saturday..... she didn't go to church. UGH. So we're goin have to be a little more bold but loving in our commitment to go to church... We're not too sure why she's not going to church it doesnt really seem like anything should be stopping her.. We do have a little bit of fellowshipping problems in the branch but we're working that out.. so yeah..
What will it take for the branch to become a ward?
They said that we're super close... As far as our branch goes..I think we're pretty ready but at the district level I think we're still "kulang sa" active Melchizedek Priesthood-holders.... #GoFigure But apparently the estimation is that we can become a stake in 6 months to a year! So I kinda hope I stay here till I go home and hopefully get to see us become a stake! So we're still focusing on priesthood and reactivating priesthood holders and potential priesthood holders so its goin be good.
How's the ZL thing going? Do you have zonie council where all of the ZL's go to meet with the president for a couple of hours/morning/day? I always enjoyed those meetings. There was always a lot of really good instruction and it was great to see a bunch of my friends who were also ZL's.
It's going pretty good. Its not too different. Our zone is really talented. We set some really high goals as a zone for the month of November and its looking like we're going to fall quite short of that.... so we're not looking too forward to going and reporting that at ZLC in a couple weeks.. But on the positive side the names behind the goals that we set haven't really gone away they just aren't ready yet. So we're really expecting to see a very very exciting December as far as baptisms, reactivations, and retention goes. But yeah we do ZLC the first Friday of every month and its nice. Its really helpful and I get to see a lot of my close friends here in the mission. Its really cool.
This is sad cuz we had a really cool week with lots of really cool experiences, but I'm short on time so I really gotta get running... =( So yeah.. sorry that this is really short! But know that I'm doing great! We should have another exciting week coming up so the next email should be great! So I hope you guys are all doing great! "If you chance to meet a frown, do not let it stay. Quickly turn it upside down and smile that frown away." haha =D
Love
Elder Michael Gadberry
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