Magandang Hapon po!
Kamusta po sa lahat ng aking
minamahal!
Well, its
been a busy day and we don't have too much time to write, so I may have to cut
this short. We had to help the new elders that took the other half of our area
move into a new apartment because of weird problems with the landlord. Good
times.
Last week
was family week celebration throughout the Philippines, so as part of a big
celebration, the missionaries teamed up with all of the members in Tuguegarao
(both stakes) and had a parade. Turns out, parades here a lot different than
back home. Haha. None of the other side streets were blocked off or anything,
so we constantly had other tricys and motors making our parade a little
bigger... Haha. It was fun though. We gave out a bunch of Articles of Faith
cards along the way. After the parade, there was some activities and food at
the stake center, and a lot of investigators and less actives ended up coming.
I can
also check off the list eating some worm/bug things that come from fields.
Don't worry, It was cooked up so it was brown and crunchy. For me the weird
part was eating the little legs. It was ok though. Not terrible.
We were
just informed that once again, the Philippine Cauayan mission is officially
number one through all of Asia and Pacific in: investigators with baptism date,
investigators attending church, lessons taught with members present, and
highest number of baptisms per companionship. Just a little fact Ben in Taiwan
or Lauren going to Japan might want to know. ;) haha just kidding. It is fun to
see so much growth here and extra areas being opened.
Mom, you
have a special assignment. It is now your turn to be a missionary! I told
Rashel (one of the people baptized last week) to add you on Facebook because
she is moving to Canada this week and nervous because she said she doesn't have
any friends in the church over there (and only a couple here) and still worried
about trying to find the church. We showed her lds.org with the locate a meetinghouse
thing and told her to contact the bishop, but I think she is too afraid/too
expensive to call there. Her fiance is a returned missionary and planning on
joining her there in about a year after he gets his paperwork and things
settled, but we are worried the transition will get in the way of her activity
in the church. She has a great testimony and wants to stay active though. I
realize there is only so much you can do with you being in Utah and her in
Canada, but we think it would be very helpful if you could answer any questions
and help her get settled into a place where she has absolutely no support. I
honestly don't know how good her English is because I've never spoken it with
her, but I know she understands it just fine because she reads the Book of
Mormon in English (which is pretty typical for Filipinos). I wish you
luck on making sure a recent convert that I taught stays active! Let me know
how it goes.
Also,
special assignment number 2, the stake president that we work with so often
here put in a special request for a miniature PMG, just like the one you sent
me in the MTC. He even offered to pay for it and shipping, but I told him I
don't think that would be necessary and I'd see what I could do to have it sent
in the Christmas package. :) He also wants one of those little keychain oil
vials, because I don't think there is any place to buy them here. I figured you
might be able to put in a good word to Santa's elves...
The Fall
colors are looking nice over there. Make sure and enjoy them while they last!
I'm enjoying all the different shades of green and rain.
My
regards also go to Kimbal with his mother just passing away. The sting of death
never is a good thing, but it is great to know that God has an eternal plan for
all of us.
Maraming
salamat po sa lahat,
Mahal
kita,
Elder Nay
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