July 14, 2013

Thank you all for the letters and pictures, they are super awesome, and I encourage you to keep sending them. first item of business that i would like to cover is about the new missionary stuff, nothing has changed here in the Philippines Quezon city mission, none of the new stuff has taken place yet in our mission. we have just been told it will still be a while. we are still tracting and doing everything normal.

so first a spiritual experience from the week, well with Elder Cava being new, we in the first week suppose to go out and practice in finding situations, and inviting people to be baptized. so all over last week we ended up getting 5 new investigators, and 3 more people with bap dates! i was pretty amazed, and it just goes to show that the lord will provide.

sad story, our closest investigator to baptism is moving! crap!

alright so training as you can tell is going pretty awesome, i am learning a lot of things from my comp, and in turn i hope he can take a lot from me being his companion. 

food, the food here is awesome still... tell brother and sister Flores that i will probably live at her house after my mission, and they will become nanay/tatay Flores.

the ipod pictures are funny, you should keep on going with those!

it sounds like dad is working like usual, and i would say if it were not for his example we Roy boys wouldn't be as hardworking as we Appear to be haha.

anyway ill try to send some pictures now. 

so this week we had temple tour, and we rented a jeep to take everyone, it was pretty fun, just exhausting.

this was the exhausting part. this kid may not look like it, but he is 18. he is just one of the street kids that lives by us and we thought we would take him.

-Elder Roy

July 7, 2013

Well i am sitting here with no letters from anyone! anyway there is a lot of news now that i have an anak! i have given birth to a Fijian from Fiji! the first thing i asked him was if they drink "America" in fiji. heh. and now in our district we have 2 new sisters, Sister Hepworth and Sister Tivalu, and there companions are Sister Repollo and Sister Are.

anyway spiritual though for the week is this. 

Since Elder Cava my new comp is new, we have a training schedule thing, and part of the first week is asking someone to be baptized. so we are in a lesson with a part member lady, and we are sharing about the life of Jesus Christ, and towards i look at my companion, and give him the Q to do what we had practiced earlier. 

It's a good feeling to ask that question and get a positive response. its a feeling that just makes you feel happy, and as missionaries we kinda feel like we are accomplishing our purpose. gotta love it.

Anyway that's pretty much it, everything is going great! just losing a few hairs here and there =0

I bought a new SD card, so i will send some pics now! 

 -Elder Roy

pretty well developed duck.

when i got the glasses in the box, i just thought "sometimes you just know when your cool"

July 1, 2013

Alright how is it going??? I have some breaking news! im pregnant! i will be giving birth tomorrow at 7 30 in the morning. (ps if you thought i was really pregnant you are wrong) the term pregnant here means you are training a greenie! crap! i have to show a new guy the ropes!!!

Alright so a spiritual thought for the week i had to go solo to one of our chapels for the trainers meeting, and i was thinking about taking a jeep there. there ends    up being about 400 people waiting for a jeep! so i take a taxi. there is a man driving me there wearing a pink shirt. he starts talking to me asking about Mormons and what we believe. he wants to know why we believe that Jesus, and God are separate being when it says in the bible they are one. i explain to the best of my knowledge why, and leave him a pamphlet (ang pananumbalik ng ebanghelyo ni jesucristo). it was a good talk.the guy told me he was a born again christian, and that he used to be a catholic cross-dresser...interesting. he told me i should pray as well to know if the god head is all one person. 

great news, i got the package today! yes! thank you so much! except i see that it says 60 bucks to send! thats a bit pricey, i am sorry. 

It's rainy season here, but since we are up in the mountains we don't get flooded or anything like the other areas. 

Other than that everything is going awesome! being a district leader is fun! i will send pictures of my anak next week! keep on sending letters and pictures! i think also if anyone wants to the dear elders still make it to us, i have gotten a few from aunt Theresa

Also i am not sure how fast the new technology stuff will be implicated into our mission, i know it wont be to soon.

LOVE YOU ALL

-Elder Roy

June 23, 2013

 My old comp and I are going to all of his old areas. i can only email for 10 more minutes! i will send i longer email next week hopefully!
-Elder Roy

June 17, 2013

Alright so this is the family letter! so basically a whole bunch has happened this week! but first i have to throw a shout out to dad since it is fathers day! happy fathers day! i wish i could have been on the price is right and then do that...

A spiritual experience for this week... we have an investigator here that we have been teaching for a while, he is pretty interested, he just has had a problem with the fact that in the first vision Joseph smith was not to join any of the churches for none of them were true. so we invited him to pray, and the next day we go back and talk to him about his prayer. he said he had a dream that night and the end result was that he knew that Joseph was a chosen prophet. pretty crazy awesome! we haven't been back since then, but hopefully that builds a foundation for him.

Alright for a crazy story, last Monday night the sisters in our district text us that their door was open! so me and my comp had to go clear their house out for them! we go up the first stair and there was a fan that was turned on! pretty sketchy! but no one was there, yet... we go up the next floor and open all the closets and doors and such. nothing there! our adrenaline was pumping, and then they called down to us and said that the offices elders had come by earlier that day and checked their house to make sure it was clean... they just happened to leave the door open, and the fan on! pretty crazy experience.

i got the cards today with the pictures and such on them! it was pretty cool to see all the old pictures of dad, he is pretty young in the pictures! hahah but in all honesty with out dads example we Roy boys wouldn't be who we are! so i am really thankful for his example that he showed, and continues to show to us.

that is pretty much it. everything is going great here! i cant believe that it has been    6 months already! 1/4 of the way down?!?!?!?!

-Elder Roy

June 9, 2013

Alright here is the letter for the week, i don't have a lot of news, but i will give you  a summary of yesterday.

first a spiritual experience ... this week has been kinda slow, but we did get to go to an FHE with a less active family, and its nice to see the power of the FHE bring the family closer together. they invited us to another one, but we aren't sure with our schedule yet.

yesterday at church we were in sacrament, and a lady in our ward who served a mission in another part of the Philippines is dating a guy who served in the same mission... somebody didn't lock their heart! we have been told a billion times to lock our hearts, and that if we marry anyone we ever met on our missions we are basically failures. anyway... then in gospel principle classes this crazy lady started yelling at the teacher, and yelling at everyone! it was quite the experience. she wasn't a member. anyway so much crazy stuff happened just yesterday!

sorry my letter is so short! i love you all. also my camera is messed up, still the SD card i think, i'll try to email pictures sometime if it works.

-Elder Roy

June 3, 2013

Alright well we are at a mall right now and my camera isn't going to let me send  any pictures.

anyway this week has been pretty good, its a little trunky though having a companion that is going home at the end of this transfer! haha its important to not start talking about worldly things, or else i start thinking about computer games and that kind of stuff! i haven't really thought that my mission was going to be long until now. 

this week for a spiritual experience i will talk about Less Actives... its been a crazy week here. but we went to a lot of less actives this last week and would share spiritual thoughts with them, and a lot of times its hard to find out their concerns and their needs... but i think we visited about 13 less actives throughout the week, and it was a really cool turn out to see 7 come to church! i was wondering if we were even going to make some progress with any of them, and then our prayers were answered!

its sounds pretty crazy over there with dads new job! hopefully everything is going alright. i might pull out some money later (were at the mall) but i will try to hold off on souvenirs until the end of my mission! i love you all.

 -Elder Roy