We are both in SANTA ANA

SO I thought I would just start by saying this...me and NICK LONG are on other parts of the world but we are both  in SANTA ANA hahaha that's awesome right!

Any way this week was a good week. We did some more finding than we usually do. It was way fun as usual and Elder Whitrod is so fun to find with. We just go door to door and just knock and it's like being in another... usually we find people outside!!! We met great people!!!

Elder Whitrod pointed something out. He said the one and only hard thing about a Philippines mission is we teach soooo many people, but only a few except us. So that's life.

This week though we go to Laoag for 4 days for MLC and mission tour. Elder Haynie is in the area presidency now and coming here. I am stoked!!!!! We leave later!!!!

NEXT WEEK I WILL HAVE A FIXED CAMERA, I HOPE, HAHAHA
with love ET

I SEE YOU WITH MY EYES

SO this week was transfers!

Tuesday I was on a bus forever and after that on top of a jeep thing it was way fun!!!
SO no work that day and the next day we were able to go to a progressing investigato and teach him! He got baptized on Saturday!

SO Thursday I was not able to work...I had SORE EYES...i'ts pink eye but worse.

So it was the worst and then on Friday we got to work and that was still hard hahaha. We just told the world about a baptism and it rained and my eye hurt hahahaha but it's life!!!

Saturday that was a good day!! we went to work in the morning! then we went to the church and got to have a wonderful baptism and did the baptizing at the ocean ( my first) its way cool!!! it was like roll up you pants don't get wet...oh wait high water! hahahah it was funny to go back to the MEETING HOUSE and be all wet!

Sunday was way fun ton of youth in the branch!

ANY way Santa Ana is amazing and its huge land area but it's a port town with 3 Chinese Casinos. I can't wait to go.......JOKE LANG!!!!! It's all coast line and 9 hours from Laoag and is far from the culture. I really love it here and I am still a ZL and this is my first AUSSI companion!!!

There are 4 elders here all in the same apartment so it's been awhile to have an English companion and house mate! But we have a main room and 2 bed rooms and a kitchen and CR or comfort room or bathroom, yes, bucket and ladle shower!

I love this work and my camera still jank!! SO LOVE YOU ALL!!

"Behold THY MOTHER"

So if you can't tell Jeffery R Holland Gave a talk that in all aspects MOVED MY SOUL.

Sister Marriott reminded me of all the woman back home hahahahah ALABAMA yata i'll let Zach be the judge.

So this last week was great. We had interviews with President Andrada and that was cool! He rocks!!
HE talked to me about being focused. He said even though we may be in a hard area, focus on the things you were asked to do and the rest will come!

Thursday was ZTM..if you don't know what that is, it's this. On Monday we have Trainings all day as zone leaders and Sister training leaders, After that we return to prepare a training coming from the trainings given by AP or pres. It's WAY FUN!

MY training was on VISION I wanna share the story I told...

SO there was a man, very wealthy, and he bought a ton of land. The only thing was this land had trees and a dirty stream etc. SO he asked 3 Men to look at his land...then the rich man asked a question WHAT DO YOU SEE? The first man said I see trees, streams, it's not a pretty place....the second said the same..it's an ugly place. Then the third, he said " I see houses, kids running around, I see a park with little foot bridge over the stream and in the distance I see big buildings alive with busy people." The rich man hired him...BUT WHY...BECAUSE HE HAD A VISION...

So that was way cool!!! Conference was way THE BEST.....1 MORE........


my camera is broken so I will send pics next week!!! LOVE YOU ALL A TON!!!!
ET

SO that happened

So I could not wait till next week so I went and saw the new apostles....I had a feeling it was a member of the presidency of the 70 but thought it was Clayton....

This week was alright!

I learned somethings this weeks. I learned that no matter what the social status people will listen..here's the story...

So we were looking for people to teach and we had a referral to find. \We asked where they lived (side story in the Philippines every one knows every one. You can ask anyone and they are like ahhh over there even if it's a kilometer away) any way so they said the green fence. So we went. it was a big house we met a man that is very rich....two cars one is a Mazda....hahaha but we taught him and he totally loved it...great questions great lessons..he lived in the US for 26 years all over and it was awesome!

This morning we had a great activity as leaders and yeah we had an hour of free time....totally played golf this morning...

I got a little sick but that's all good!!! I live and push on!!!! well my camera broke but it's an easy fix. but I can't do it so yeah walang pics. BUT LOVE YOU ALL HAVE A Great WEEK!
ET

SO DON'T THINK THERE IS A PROBLEM IN MY COMPANIONSHIP JUST WAIT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I MEAN....

So this week was tough as in we faced defeat talaga.... hahaha on Thursday we were in an area called Lanao. We went to one appointment and they weren't at the house and then after we went to a house nearby....to our surprise we saw the sisters with our previous appointment and our next appointment going to a house we went to earlier that afternoon.

I told Elder Ramos to text pres to tell him we wanted to be transferred, but he said we would only respond if it was extreme...so he told him we wanted an ET. Sure enough he called, asked what happened...I had to be the one to talk to him...and I told him all the troubles that we have seen or faced this week...that's a lot.....in short what I said was "this branch has had a bad experience with elders I think its time to have just sisters"

OUR LIFE ROCKS!!! I hope all of you had a great week!!

Other than that I heard there might be a tsunami so yeah I AM SAFE just hope the best for the members who live near the sea. BUT I LOVE this work and all those I talk to everyday. WE love our companionship and get a long so well hahaha I love it! TOMORROW IS mission conference so I get to see some peeps so that's cool!

SO the other night we were walking and we thought it was a short cut..it was kinda but it was junk!!! but so dark and Elder Ramos kept pulling pranks...did you know if you run passed a cow they freak out!!!

I FORGOT MY CAMERA....next week na lang

HOPE YOU ALL ARE GREAT!!!!
LOVE
ET

It's almost 1st Christmas

UM YEAH so as a missionary there are things you get way excited for...1st Christmas is not like regular Christmas it's.... GENERAL CONFERENCE...so will say this now...I see it a week after all of you in America...don't spoil it. Yeah thanks....love you

ANY way so this week was way cool! I loved it very much hahaha BUT IT WAS SO HARD

We have noticed that when we split the area we lost a lot of or investigators and RC that we teach....SO WE DID A TON OF FINDING...lucky for me I have 2 companions Elder Ramos and the spirit to guide us....we found some wonderful people and some...well, they are still wonderful just not a fan of us......imagine that people don't like us.....hahahaha...

SO this week we had ZTM this is were we take the training that President Andrada gave us and train the elders and sisters in are zone alongside the Sister Training Leadrers or STL....so that is way fun!!!! hahaha

But on a harder note I was able to talk to one of the members here who I have seen go from active to less active to apostasy....As we talked he expressed the thoughts that satan has entered into the church due to what he says is poor leadership and other things I will keep to myself. As we continued I said "Brother, can we at least stop by and teach" his response was don't...I know what my lesson is.....my heart hurt, I felt my eyes water, but he said elder it's ok...we are still friends.....

life is rough....

BUT IF THERE IS ONE THING I HAVE LEARNED IS PRAYER AND FAITH MIXED WITH A TON OF HOPE


WELL THAT IS ALL. I AM HAPPY AND LOVE MY WORK!

ET

I will send pics soon after my comp done with my quan

​I LOVE MY MISSION

Elder Ramos made a ton of sopas..Tagalog....with the spam grandma spent (fun fact I like that and tuna......) also it's crazy expensive here so it was nice to get it for free.....but there was so much and Elder Ramos was just like " man lets use these for bowls...hahahaha sooo good! 

This is weird!

SO my email is still being dumb but bear with me!

AnyWAY this week was fun I guess!! hahaha but it's transfers and my new comp is Elder Ramos. He's in my batch going home so that's cool.

THIS week was pretty slow but that's ok we still had fun!! I am really going  to miss my comp he's hecka coolo!

This week we saw 2 investigators at church both really great ones, just need to be married!

HASTENING THE WORK UPDATE

So there is this huge church here for short its just INC. It's a Spanish name.
Basta they are pretty much in the early stages of apostisy. It's sad to say but it's just part of hastening the work.....They are the kind of church who rule the land who the politics try to impress! To get there 3 million followers to vote that is that.

I love my work!!! hahaha There is something fun!!!! so MY BIKE we were coming down a steep rocky hill and my back tire is super sad and no track so the brake didn't work but the front did!! yeah I'm dumb!!! I didn't get too hurt, just a scrape or two and a bruise on my knee...that's cool!!!!


WELL I FORGOT MY CAMERA

This week also we are moving out! to another apartment.....it's way nice, smaller but nice!!!!!! YAY for privacy

Well I think that's it!!! I miss you all, but it's less than a year;)