September 1, 2013

Whewh what a week.so much has happened this week. and everything sounds like it is going good at home. cam confirmed for me that there is going to be an enders game movie, which could be the coolest thing ever. mom i am going to be honest i don't think i look like that dude haha.

one day during the week we worked with a member, and every house that we planned to go to had nobody home, so we figured it was a test of patience, and that the member is cursed....

I have so many awesome pictures to send home today!

Second picture is of me of course and the First  picture is of what i was looking at. we went all the way up into the mountain to look for a less active that ended up not being there, but the view was super awesome!

I am going to have to start another email to keep sending the pictures.

August 25, 2013

Well this weeks been quite the adventure! we were told to stay inside for 2 days due to the weather, and we heard that a missionary was electrocuted at the beginning of the week. the storms have been pretty crazy, and we have come home completely soaked! its quite the experience. we then got to dry all of our scriptures, shoes, and bags with the electric fan.

This week we have been starting to work in half of our area since we have 2 more elders in our area. so its a lot of tracting. but the referrals are coming in slowly, and the most effective investigators. we were teaching one this week who had been taught previously, so we thought we would just get a baptismal date for her. as we were teaching a date popped into my head, and when we asked them they were all pretty freaked out and told us that they had been talking about that date before, and she accepted. hopefully we can follow through with it! pretty cool experience for me and my companion.

Right now i am in a pretty difficult situation, the kid right next to me is playing league of legends, and the computer shop owner is playing some pretty awesome music! i mean Babylonian music...  

haha anyway i cant send any pictures because i had the camera on the highest setting, so the pictures are to big to send...

but we got to walk through a huge rice field the other day while it was raining, so we got soaking wet and muddy, we got some pictures of that experience.

anyway i love you all and hopefully i don't get leptospirosis or whatever it is, just pray for me!

-Elder Roy

August 19, 2013

Well we just ate at mang inasal, its unlimited rice, so ill just leave it at that. anyway everything is going well, we have new people in our house, Elder Onato, and he is training elder Pincock. Elder Onato is from the Philippines, and Elder Pincock is from Idaho. we have been showing them around their area all week and there is still more to show them. everything sounds like it is going good there, I love the picture of the Family! also mom you cant just say that you went to the doctor, and then not tell me what he said!

alright so for a spiritual thought from this week...its nice having the new elders in this area, and i can see the effect/potential that they have to help our investigators progress fully.

all of our investigators are doing alright, we have found our problem is just getting them to come to church... Elder Onato said that his last area had about 18 investigators coming to church regularly, i told him in our ward we are lucky if we get 1 to church. so hopefully he knows a secret to getting them to come to church.

it sounds like they are still working dad like crazy, its pretty inspirational.

well thanks for all the letters, hopefully they keep coming in, and hopefully more and more pictures. love you all!

-Elder Roy

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