January 5, 2014

Its January- 11 more fast Sundays!

I would like to wish Cordon, Eric, Sherri, Cori, and Grandpa a Happy Birthday! 

Next we attended a FHE last week, we watched a Youtube Clip called "Jesus is ALWAYS with you" pretty interesting take on Jesus always being with people. Let me know what you think.

NEW YEARS was insane, the mission told us we had to go to sleep and couldn't watch the fireworks, well its kinda hard when it sounds like World war 3, and you cant breathe because of the amount of smoke in your house! i am glad we dont have a smoke alarm, that thing would have freaked out!

Crazy story for the week. back on Thursday we went to visit a less active family in the new part of our area, they were super nice, and said we could come back on Saturday and share with them. well we went back on Saturday, went to the door, gave a good, stern "Tao Po" and no one came to the door! Punted! or so we thought....later that night as we returned back to that area to go visit an investigator of ours, we heard news that the dude we went to visit had died from a heart attack earlier. Was it because he didn't come to the door? i don't know, but we let the bishop know, and that was the end of the day.

so i set some new years resolutions, one of them is to enjoy this last year of work. if it goes by as fast as last year, it will be over before i know it.
Love, Elder Roy

sweet bags a member made for me!

 

December 29, 2013

Hey Happy New Years! its like 4 days ago i was just talking to you! but a lot has happened since then! so we will get started by saying happy new years! we have to be home tomorrow night by 6pm so it will be a little boring, but that is all right, i will have a lot of time to write new years resolutions!

Friday was one of the greatest teaching days that we have had for a while, in terms of how many lessons we had taught. and all of the lessons went great as well. we have been finding all the investigators in the new part of our area, and we are seeing a lot of great ones.

Saturday we went to all the houses of the appointments we had set up, and no one was home! so we went to one of our less actives that i always home, and had a good lesson with him, we then got stuck there talking to some random drunk dude that told us he wanted us to share with him about the gospel. so we got his address, and gave him a pamphlet and told him we would come over...someday... 

also we were walking along the road and we saw a car under a cover, and i told my comp "that looks like a corvette!" and we decided to find out, so we went to the gate and gave out best "Tao po" and the dude came to the door. we started talking to him and asked him about his car, it turns out that it was a Corvette, but not just any, it was a ZR1! imported from California. he said he had lived it California for 41 years, and in the navy and police force, and is now retired. so we are hoping that we will be able to go back to him and share the gospel with him.

Sunday was the same deal, we went to all of our appointments and nobody was home. but i was really happy because it was that last Sunday that starts at 7 30 in the morning! nice!

Alright so that was all of our days since we skyped. i hope that you are all doing ok, it was nice to see all of your faces. only 5 more months and we will be skyping again!
 Love you all -Elder Roy.

here is a Pitchure (working on my utah accent) of the temple

December 22, 2013

This week has been quite eventful. my new comp is Elder Phelps, and he is a chill dude from Utah. Also it was Really surprising that he is coming from my first area, which was also his first area! nice! so we have talked about all the stuff from that area and ward. 

So he got here last wednesday and he totally reminds me of Seth Jones Fotheringham. we were about to go to bed and i was telling him about the weird dreams that the previous elders would have in his bed, and how they thought it was haunted. about 10 minutes later he told me his bed was shaking! hahaha well we were pretty freaked out, but we were able to fall asleep.

On saturday we had our ward Christmas party, and we got a hold of a ward members ipad (patawad) haha but we were able to take some sweet pictures! the ward had some cool dances and stuff that they put together, and sang some songs (we had to sing with some of the members) and we ate A lot of FOOD! they had a whole pig there! it was nice.

Sunday we did the normal thing, but when we went to lunch at one of our members we were talking about the first night when we were here how elder phelps had felt his bed shaking. well it turns out last week on wednesday around 10:46 there was a 4.0 earthquake! hahahahaha, we were laughing pretty hard.

having the whole ward to just us two is going pretty good, i feel like we are getting a lot of success with investigators, but its still hard sometimes haha. the investigators that come to church are the maids of  our ward members and they dont want to listen to us.

alright i am excited to skype on christmas night (for you guys) WEEW! its already been 7 months since the last time! crazy!

Love you all. -Elder Roy

December 16, 2013

We have had a crazy week! we have had a lot of meetings, parties, and things like that so there wasn't a whole lot of missionary work. but the day we did get to work, i went on exchanges with elder usigan, we bought the biggest burgers in the world, pictures will be sent later. anyway me and my comp got in a lot of fights this week, but we were able to make them all ok haha, and i was worried, but we got the news earlier today that everyone is transferring out of the house except for me. i will be getting a new comp tomorrow, Elder Phelps. i have met him before, but i don't remember him to much. he is still new in the mission, so i am sure we will have fun. i will update you more on that next week, when we are skyping. i am not sure when we will Skype, but right now i am thinking that i would like to Skype the morning of the 26th here, so it would be the night of the 25th there. anyway i am going to send more pictures.
Love, Elder Roy

Christmas Party

this place is called Mama Chits, they are a famous restaurant in our area. they sell amazing burgers, and the one in the picture was 600 pesos, it fed four of us, but i was still hungry. all of their drinks were imported from America, so i got an ibc root beer, and a cherry dr pepper, it was heaven. it was amazing.

we all enjoyed a banana splits

December 11, 2013

*One year mark 12-12-13*

Alright today we went to the temple so that's why I am emailing you right now on Wednesday. but there is a lot to cover from last week so we will get started from last week.

 Tuesday not much happened, we went and taught a guy who believes that it doesn't matter which church we go to as long as we worship God, he as frustrating at times, but we keep on trying.

Wednesday we went on exchanges, i went with one of the zone leaders and we taught a 52 year old truck driver from Arizona, who is marrying a 22 year old member here, its kind of weird... but if they are happy, i guess its ok. 

Thursday we ate at a place called boyongs, one of the best burger places i have ever eaten at! you can get a half pound burger for 90 pesos! its like 2 dollars! it was awesome.

Friday some crazy drunk guy talked to us on the road, he told us that he wanted us to come over and teach him, then he commanded some dude on the road to give us balut (the duck egg), then he told him to put it on the tab, and told the guy to start walking. it was kinda scary haha but we went to his house the next day and realized that we had tracted his house about a month ago and talked to his mom. his mom is super old, and she told us that she told God that she is ready to go. it was kinda sad, but we taught the drunk dude (who wasn't drunk anymore) and it was a great lesson, hopefully he follows through.

Last Saturday kinda a slow day, it was the day we taught the drunk dude (he wasn't drunk any more though).

last Sunday we taught a dude who read the entire restoration pamphlet (that happens once in a blue moon!)  and the lesson went really good, he asked us "did Joseph Smith really see God and Jesus Christ? we said "yep" and testified and such.

last Monday my comp was sick, and we watched some classic missionary movies such as "treasure in heaven, the john tanner story" "the lords errand" and "Joseph Smith, the prophet of the restoration." 

yesterday we had our mission Christmas party! i got a flash light, nice! it was fun, all the zones had to sing a song and do a skit. it was a day of laughter.

Today, we went to the temple! nice! 

Thank you for all the emails and pictures. I love you all..

-Elder Roy

December 1, 2013

 Everything is going awesome. we had Thanksgiving, went to a convention of psychologists, and did a lot of finding. i am so happy to see all the pictures from thanksgiving, we really have a guwapo family. cam and nick especially looked pogi. so i will start by telling all about the week, starting from last Tuesday.

Tuesday: not much happened. it was just a normal day, but we had a cool experience. we were walking home last week, and there was this really old dude on the same road, so we started talking to him, he said we could go to his house, and share with him. so we went back to his house on this day, and he ended up not being there, but his son who is like 64 was there, and he had read part of the pamphlet we gave them, and so we taught him. nice!

Wednesday: we went to one of our potential investigators, we talked to him on the street as well, it ended up that he had read the whole pamphlet and started reading the book of mormon. we shared about the restoration, and invited him to pray to know if what he had read was true. Nice!

Thursday:Thanksgiving! we didn't eat a lot, but we did go to one of our other investigators, and finished up teaching about the restoration, we invited her to baptism, but she needs to find out if everything we taught is true, so we invited her to search ponder and pray. Nice!

Friday: me and Elder Sabado were invited to go and attend a psychology convention being held at one of our chapels. while there, we sat at a table and talked with people interested in our church, and handed out referral cards. Nice!

Saturday: went on exchanged with Elder Delfin, it was fun, and we had a lot of finding success.

Sun: fast Sunday (only 12 more fast Sundays)  we walked to our area because the traffic was way to bad, we get there and we aren't able to cross the street because there is a marathon going on! so we waited about 1 hour until we could finally cross. we talked to this one guy, but we found out he is a bit crazy. but after that we talked to some people on the street playing badminton, the dad of the family is actually a less active member! nice!

today: we ate at Mang inasal! one of the best things since Mcdonalds. and now i am emailing. (Details of Mang inasal: one big piece of chicken, and unlimited rice!)

Love you all

-Elder Roy

November 24, 2013

     so quite a lot went down this week, so I will go day by day and tell about them all.

Tuesday- we got a text on Monday night that we would have a service project in the morning, so in the morning they told us to go to ABS-CBN, a T.V. station here. so we got there and it turns out we have a member that is famous and is on a tv show called "Show Time" his name is "The Eruption". anyway he was there, we lifted a lot of boxes and relief goods into a semi truck. that went on for about 4 hours, and was pretty fun, and we got on TV, nice! we were at the place where they filmed "Pinoy Big Brother". it was pretty cool.

Wednesday- we had zone conference! we heard talks from out mission president and his wife, the Assistants to the president our zone leaders, and the sister trainer leaders. it was super fun, and the food was good.

Thursday- was District Leader Training, it was fun, we heard more talks from the mission president, his wife, and the Assistants to the president. but i started getting sick! i got Bronchitis, AIN'T NO BODY GOT TIME FOR DAT!

Friday- I got some medicine and rested for most of the day.

Saturday- we got punted all day, not a single lesson! it was fun =)

Sunday- we went to church, and for the second time in the whole time i have been here in this area, we had a member work with us! yes! 

that leads up to today, before we came to email we went and ate, i had the first cinnamon roll i have ever had in forever.

oh yeah i like the new shirt from the package!

Love you all,  I am thankful for you all.

-Elder Roy