Happy 2015!
Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a good holiday season! New Year was very loud here in Bacolod! New Year Celebration consists of lots of explosions. They have fireworks forever! It's not like out 4th of July either, it's just lots of personal fireworks at the house that are super loud and sometimes don't even have lights, it's just like bombs. So it was kinda hard to sleep on the 31st! I feel asleep at 10:30 and then woke up at 12:05 because of all the fireworks!
After I emailed last week we got a text from President Lopez telling us to go on a 3-day exchange with the Bacolod 6th Elders. I worked with Elder Brinton who is from American Fork, Utah. He's only been out for 2 weeks so it was pretty great! We were able to have lunch with Cobing family on January 1st and we shared a quick message with them and then sang a hymn! It was awesome, they were so good at singing it was amazing!
On Friday after Elder Pineda came back we got a call from President Lopez informing us that Elder Pineda would be given a new assignment in his new area soon. So we waited until Sunday afternoon for a call from the Assistants notifying us that he was transferring. So this morning he transferred and my new companion is Elder Lopez! President talked to me this morning and he said that he's been considering my reports for the last couple weeks about my struggles with Elder Pineda, so he helped us both out! Thank you President! Tomorrow we have MLC (Mission Leadership Council) and neither Elder Lopez or I have attended before. I'm now ZL1 and I have no idea what's going to happen. President just told us to read Alma 32 and that the two of us will be teaching a short lesson on Faith tomorrow, so that should be fun! I'm excited and nervous all at the same time. I always love going to the Mission Home! We have breakfast and lunch provided as well as ice-cream afterwards! it should be great!
I totally meant to challenge each of you when I called on Christmas to join me in trying to finish the Book of Mormon before I come home. That gives us 5 months. So let's do our best! I'm only in 1 Nephi 10 so I don't have too much of a headstart on you! I'm sure we can do it! Let me know next week if you've accepted the challenge! ;)
Love you all and hope you have a wonderful week! :)
Monday, January 5, 2015
12.29.14
Manigong Bagong Taon! #2
Christmas was great! It was so good to see all of your faces and hear your voices! For those of you who didn't join the call, I will see your face and hear your voice in just a few months! :)
Christmas here in Bacolod was great! We spent the 24th at Bishops house, dinner was great. I ate so much food, the main course was DUCK! It was actually pretty good. They just kept giving me food I was so full! It was great too because I poured my juice into my cup and somehow it ended up all over the table, turns out there was a hold in the bottom of my glass cup! It was great, my rice turned red!
After the Christmas call we went and visited a few families and also got fed pretty well! We visited the the 1st Counselor of the Stake Presidency's family, the Cobings, President wasn't there and neither was his wife, but 4 of his kids were and they gave us a ton of food and cooked us more while we were eating! it was great! Then we visited the Magallanes family, her youngest son is currently serving his mission in the California Long Beach Mission, so that's pretty cool! She also fed us a bunch of food. I was so full after that my stomach hurt for a few days! But now I'm all good!
We were able to meet a family of new investigators this last week! A whole family, the Algones Family, there's like 7 or 8 of them! They're so interested and I'm so excited to go back and visit them! That was a big boost to our week that wasn't super great work wise. So hopefully this next week will be even better! :)
I love you all and I hope that you have a Manigong Bagong Taon! :)
Christmas was great! It was so good to see all of your faces and hear your voices! For those of you who didn't join the call, I will see your face and hear your voice in just a few months! :)
Christmas here in Bacolod was great! We spent the 24th at Bishops house, dinner was great. I ate so much food, the main course was DUCK! It was actually pretty good. They just kept giving me food I was so full! It was great too because I poured my juice into my cup and somehow it ended up all over the table, turns out there was a hold in the bottom of my glass cup! It was great, my rice turned red!
After the Christmas call we went and visited a few families and also got fed pretty well! We visited the the 1st Counselor of the Stake Presidency's family, the Cobings, President wasn't there and neither was his wife, but 4 of his kids were and they gave us a ton of food and cooked us more while we were eating! it was great! Then we visited the Magallanes family, her youngest son is currently serving his mission in the California Long Beach Mission, so that's pretty cool! She also fed us a bunch of food. I was so full after that my stomach hurt for a few days! But now I'm all good!
We were able to meet a family of new investigators this last week! A whole family, the Algones Family, there's like 7 or 8 of them! They're so interested and I'm so excited to go back and visit them! That was a big boost to our week that wasn't super great work wise. So hopefully this next week will be even better! :)
I love you all and I hope that you have a Manigong Bagong Taon! :)
12.22.14
Bacolod 1st Ward
So it's kinda crazy being here in the city. The work is definitely not the same as the mountain. I really kinda miss the mountain. But I'll make the best of my time here in the Bacolod 1st Ward. It's kinda crazy because the Mission Office is part of my area. So it's kinda nice, I still haven't gotten my package because some things have been held up because of the storm a couple weeks ago, but whenever it gets here I can just go to the office myself and get it so that's awesome!
The work here is much much slower than in the mountains. The people here have a lot more things to occupy themselves with so they aren't quite as open to the Gospel as they are in the mountains, but it is what it is. The Ward is great. Our Bishop is great, Our Ward Mission Leader and his Assistants are great as well. So we have all the tools we need. We just need to put it all together to get the best results. Unfortunately we don't have a baptism this Christmas. Which I'm really disappointed about. To be honest it isn't our work. Since both of us are new here in the area. When Elder Pineda got here the week before I did his companion told him that we had 3 on Christmas. But since Elder Pineda got here none of them have gone to Church. This transfer is also going to be a bit rough because Elder Pineda is in his last transfer now, and he is not the most obedient to the Mission Rules. However we are about to move into another apartment with another companionship so hopefully those things stop when he realizes there's now 3 set's of eyes watching him and not just me. I really like Elder Pineda, he's super great to talk to and when we teach. Just the disobedience I think is taking a toll on our work. So I hope that gets fixed! I just hate to be the one to tell my companion he needs to change. Especially when he's older than me in the mission! Hopefully it all works out!
Other than that, I am super excited to Skype with y'all on Thursday! :) I can't wait to see your lovely faces! Should be around 10 am my time which I think is like what 7ish there? I'll leave it up to you to figure it out! haha I can't remember if it's a 14 hour or 15 hour difference! Other than that I'm doing great! I love you all and hope you all have a wonderful Christmas! :)
So it's kinda crazy being here in the city. The work is definitely not the same as the mountain. I really kinda miss the mountain. But I'll make the best of my time here in the Bacolod 1st Ward. It's kinda crazy because the Mission Office is part of my area. So it's kinda nice, I still haven't gotten my package because some things have been held up because of the storm a couple weeks ago, but whenever it gets here I can just go to the office myself and get it so that's awesome!
The work here is much much slower than in the mountains. The people here have a lot more things to occupy themselves with so they aren't quite as open to the Gospel as they are in the mountains, but it is what it is. The Ward is great. Our Bishop is great, Our Ward Mission Leader and his Assistants are great as well. So we have all the tools we need. We just need to put it all together to get the best results. Unfortunately we don't have a baptism this Christmas. Which I'm really disappointed about. To be honest it isn't our work. Since both of us are new here in the area. When Elder Pineda got here the week before I did his companion told him that we had 3 on Christmas. But since Elder Pineda got here none of them have gone to Church. This transfer is also going to be a bit rough because Elder Pineda is in his last transfer now, and he is not the most obedient to the Mission Rules. However we are about to move into another apartment with another companionship so hopefully those things stop when he realizes there's now 3 set's of eyes watching him and not just me. I really like Elder Pineda, he's super great to talk to and when we teach. Just the disobedience I think is taking a toll on our work. So I hope that gets fixed! I just hate to be the one to tell my companion he needs to change. Especially when he's older than me in the mission! Hopefully it all works out!
Other than that, I am super excited to Skype with y'all on Thursday! :) I can't wait to see your lovely faces! Should be around 10 am my time which I think is like what 7ish there? I'll leave it up to you to figure it out! haha I can't remember if it's a 14 hour or 15 hour difference! Other than that I'm doing great! I love you all and hope you all have a wonderful Christmas! :)
12.15.14
Transfer Day!
Well today, like you may have already noticed, was transfer day. And I was transferred. President Lopez attended our Stake Conference yesterday, and before we started he called Elder Manu and Me in to talk with him. He at the time tought that we were the Zone Leaders for some reason and explained to us that the Zone Leaders were going to be involved in Transfer Calls this transfer and that we need to call the missionaries in our Zone. At that time I reminded President that we weren't the Zone Leaders to which he just laughed, realizing his mistake! It was kinda funny. So that he just proceeded to tell me himself that was going to transfer. He also informed me that I would be a new Zone Leader! :| Crazy hahha
But we were able to have the wedding for Jear and Marissa this past weekend after a lot of stressful problems that eventually worked themselves out with scheduling problems. We also were able to have the baptism of Marissa and Alma. It went fairly well as well!
I am now assigned here in the Bacolod 1st Ward in the Bacolod Zone and am a Zone Leader along with Elder Pineda! Hopefully we have a wonderful time workign together. He goes home next month! Well, sorry I've been so short, but I don't have too much time to email today! Hopefully you all have a wonderful week! Can't wait to Skype and see your faces! Love you all! :)
Well today, like you may have already noticed, was transfer day. And I was transferred. President Lopez attended our Stake Conference yesterday, and before we started he called Elder Manu and Me in to talk with him. He at the time tought that we were the Zone Leaders for some reason and explained to us that the Zone Leaders were going to be involved in Transfer Calls this transfer and that we need to call the missionaries in our Zone. At that time I reminded President that we weren't the Zone Leaders to which he just laughed, realizing his mistake! It was kinda funny. So that he just proceeded to tell me himself that was going to transfer. He also informed me that I would be a new Zone Leader! :| Crazy hahha
But we were able to have the wedding for Jear and Marissa this past weekend after a lot of stressful problems that eventually worked themselves out with scheduling problems. We also were able to have the baptism of Marissa and Alma. It went fairly well as well!
I am now assigned here in the Bacolod 1st Ward in the Bacolod Zone and am a Zone Leader along with Elder Pineda! Hopefully we have a wonderful time workign together. He goes home next month! Well, sorry I've been so short, but I don't have too much time to email today! Hopefully you all have a wonderful week! Can't wait to Skype and see your faces! Love you all! :)
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