August 12, 2013

I'll start with the good news, everything is going good. also i am not transferring! i am staying with elder cava for another transfer here in Bagong Nayon, and we are getting 2 more elders in our area!

spiritual though. Elder Mcdonald my old companion is leaving back to america tomorrow, so last week he came and did exchanges with me, it was super fun. it was also a good experience to see how close he has become to the people here. then i thought about what it would be like in 1 year and 4 months for me. haha.

i got an email from one of my friends saying that he gets to use FaceBook, hopefully that comes soon for us! what in the world is this!

Maddy got a new car?!?!?!!?!?!?! hahaha i thought it was funny when she said "don't get mad" 

i think i am going to try to avoid dinner appointments, and i should probably repent of gluttony! we eat quite a bit.

mom hopefully you get better! 

the planner case is going good, i'll definitely add the other faces if i get a chance. i'll keep you updated.

i have a lot of pictures to send, maybe that would spark up some conversation.

When Elder Mcdonald was here we went on a hike to an awesome waterfall place.

I am in favor of getting some of these things in America, i am a big fan!

-Elder Roy

August 5, 2013

Alright so it looks like everyone is having fun! there was even no one in the pool! how lucky is that! dad got to ride an airplane! i am dreading the plane ride in 1 year and 4 months! the ride here was brutal! and the little babies are so cute! thanks for all the pictures and such, i need more family pictures and what not! like thee whole family.

For this part i will just start by saying the work is going great! its been a little tough getting a solid investigator, but its going good. we went to one of our investigators who has had an accident back in the day, and now his right leg, or maybe its his left.... anyway one of his legs was crushed in the past by a car, now he has read the entire bible, and is halfway done with the Book of Mormon! anyway we were finishing up teaching him, and he says to me, "Elder Roy you should bring someone who is older, i like you guys coming, but you are so young" so the next day we think of who could take, it ends up our next door neighbor is about his age, so we took him! it turns out our neighbors province is also bicol, and it ended up going awesome! so we are hoping that he continues to accept our visits, and in turn we hope to help him come closer to Christ.

It sounds like Cam has been having fun obtaining my video games! i would say video games is one of the bigger things i struggle with, example i can see two other people in this computer shop playing video games! its torture! anyway he came across a picture in my email that he wanted me to explain. 

let me see if i have any other pictures.

so in this picture we were all just having fun at Seths house! that should pretty much sum it up.

here is one of me under the capt. 

That's pretty much all the news for the week, i love you all, and i hope everything is going good there. remember to send pictures always!

-Elder Roy

also i made a case for my planner so it doesn't get destroyed in a week, and i put a lot of work into it haha

July 28, 2013

Everything is going awesome here, its raining a lot! and i am just thinking of things to say! august 14th is coming up quick, that is the next transfer day. and it sounds like everything is going good at home! mom you should send me the pictures of me in the pink tie.

A spiritual thought for the week would have to be about patience! one day this past week we had planned to go visit a bunch of investigators, we had a ward missionary with us, and we were ready to go! but for some reason the entire list of people we had planned to go visit were all gone! so we ended up doing a lot of tracting. it was a good patient experience.

Earlier this week we went and visited a part of our area that we hadnt gone to see in about a month and a half (its like a 40 minute jeep ride) but we went out and visited a less active family, they live in a bamboo hut, its pretty cool. anyway the mom was telling us how they are to poor to pay for the ride to our chapel, and then started to tell us how her kids had become active at this other korean church. it was pretty interesting, i was just really sad that this lady is a RM, and her kids dont even know about the church. so we taught her kids how to pray, it was fun.

oh yeah another story. we had to go to a hospital at like 9 in the morning to give a baby a blessing. lets just say the hospitals here are interesting. that was a good spiritual experience though.

alright well i am sorry that i am to lazy to write anything else haha. I love you all!

-Elder Roy

July 23, 2013

Dear family & friends ,

      All the people we work here are their age (20 to 25). I am loving all the pictures and stuff that i am getting from you guys! you should take more pictures of the family and send them! like to whole family. i have noticed the more into the mission i am getting the more i miss you all! also today i went and pulled out 1000 pesos just so your not worried.

 So for a spiritual thought for the week, i would like to testify of the power of member referrals. we had a member take us to one of their relatives, and on the first visit we get a baptismal date! pretty awesome, he has been reading about the restoration, and the introduction to the book of Mormon! 

  Other than that everything is going pretty good here, my comp is having some issues with his leg, but other than that everything is going good. i haven't heard anything about when we will be using computers and such for the missionary work, right now its all old school tracting and finding. 

  To dads question the ward is active for the most part, but if it is raining our attendance goes down a bit. and as to the food, everything for the most part i like a lot, the only things i have found that i don't like is liver and squid. me and my comp live off of oatmeal, junk food, top romen, and anything we obtain from appointments haha. its the life.

its raining pretty hard right now, I heard from the people here that there was a typhoon or something that went by. 

But other than that its all going good here, its coming up to my 8 month mark as a missionary, and 6 in the field! it's a weird feeling

-Elder Roy

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