So this week has been pretty good! I love the area, the branch, and my companion. We have been busy. Most every day just flies by.
The edillio family is great! They are progressing well and coming to church. They have a baptismal date for the 27th.

We had a baptism this last saturday. Stephanie Faraj was baptized. She is pretty cool. After that I was asked by the sisters in my district to baptize their investigator. So we went there for that after our baptism.

Other than that not really mush stands out. Its been a good busy week with lots of lessons. The city is great but its pretty hot here. My companion told me that when he got his call he was bummed because here in the Philippines, Cauayan is known as the hottest mission here haha.

Love you guys

Do I have money in my account  to buy new garments?

Well Im going to order some garments today. Mine have holes in them and im half way done with my mission so i thought i would order some now

Thats what hand washing does to them haha and im getting them online. Im not sure if there are charges

No because I change the store to the philippines one not the usa one so it will get here faster

The week was pretty good! Being in a city is killing me though...we ate out like 5 times this week haha and all my support is gone! I still have another week to get through with a little bit of money haha. Its great though. There is a lot of traffic though and crossing the street is scary. You just walk out and tell the cars to stop because youre walking.

So we have 3 investigators with a baptism date. The first is Stephanie, she is 14 and hers is this next saturday. She is awesome! Her parents are less active so she comes by herself. She is always to church early and always does what we ask her to! The next is Joann. She is 18 and comes from a part member family. Her date is sept 6th. She is pretty great too, super shy tho. Last is Christian. he is 24 and by far my favorite. Also from a part member family. He works at a gym and so that is where we teach him. We get there at about 1:30 and he will kick everyone out so we can teach. He has had a smoking problem but we have been working with him and he is just about clean. His date is Sept 13th.

So something cool that happened, we had an appointment with a family of investigators that we just started teaching. It was 3:30 and we had an interview at 4 and the family lived quite a ways a way. We werent sure if we should go or just reschedule. We decided to go. We get there and a member is there and is there for the lesson then ends up telling us of others we should teach who live just behind the family. They all came to church yesterday!

Happy birthday Landon!

I got transferred! I am now in Cauayan 2A! I am in the actual city which is pretty nice!  I live like 3 minutes from the mission home haha and my comp and i live with the Ap's. That means whenever we are going the same places we get to ride in their truck! My companion is Elder Laxamana from Batangas city. He is awesome! We are already best friends! He has been out for 14 months. Our apartment is really nice! Its all tile, 2 story with 2 bathrooms.

The work here is good. We have members to work with and the church is very established here. We have several investigators with baptismal dates. Our area is very spread out though.

Oh and then on sunday the bishop told me I was speaking...during the opening announcements...that was a great feeling haha.

I got sis stagee's package! It was awesome haha she is way nice! She sent a box full of snackes and even a new shirt! It must have cost her a ton! Please say thank you! And I loved how she put on the customs form..."rice" and thats all haha! I was kinda freakin out like..."she send me a box full of rice and im in the philippines..."

Happy birthday dad!! Love you!

So things have been pretty good this last week.

On Tuesday we had our last district meeting of this cycle. We had a little spiritual thought and then played FHE games. After that we went to Mang Inasal which is a restaurant here. Its grilled chicken and unlimited rice. I am getting pretty good at putting down rice. I had 6 cups.
Then that night we just about finished the lessons with our investigator Kevin. We were getting him ready for his baptism interview which was on Saturday. He passed by the way and his baptism is on the 16th. That night we had a dinner appointemnt at the Bureros family. They are the rich people in the ward.

On wednesday we got a call from the Ap's saying my comp is training so he had to go to a meeting on thursday. It also means im transferred. So on Thursday I was on splits with Elder Mago. It was a pretty good time and we worked in his area.

On Friday we had to go to the sisters area to interview some of their investigators for baptism. Public transportation here is the worst. They drive the 12 person van but they squeeze 18 people into them....needless to say it isnt very comfortable. For lunch we decided to go all out. We bout a chicken. Got it all ready and marinated it. And I made mashed potatoes and we had gravy. We even had the corn and lemonade!

On saturday the other elders in our ward had a baptism so we were at that. Afterwards we had a basketball game with the YM and some Rm's in the ward and some investigators. And then we went to the birthday party of Kevins(investigator getting baptized) little brother.
And then since my companion has been telling everyone im transferred, bishop heard...so that night at about 9:30 he texts us and says that im speaking tomorrow. So I was up to about midnight writing my talk haha.

Sunday went really well despite the fact i had to talk in church. Luckily Elder Cabaltica had to also. He is one of my best friends here so it was nice getting to talk with him. After everyone found out im being transferred everyone starting inviting us to dinners and planning activites to say bye. I am really going to miss this ward.

Well the medicine helped a lot! I was able to get it on tuesday. I have had to take 4 pills a day for a week. I could tell it was starting to work around thursday or friday. Im all better now though.

So we werent able to have our baptism. They have just changed how baptism interviews are done here. They are only on Saturday now so we have to wait an extra week from the time of his interview. It will be on Aug 16 for sure. He is a great guy and is always coming to church.

This week has been really boring. Being sick really sucked and the days just felt like forever.

I have started reading the Book of Mormon in Tagalog though. Its 777 pages which is quite a bit longer. And reading in a different language isnt to easy haha. My goal is to have it done before christmas.

The first picture is of a FHE we had a little while back. The games here are great because if you lose then there is a punishment. That happened to be some lipstick on the face.

The second is of one of our recent converts here. His name is Pitong. He is 11 and I swear he has ADD haha. He is super fun to teach though and always asks when we will be coming back.

Well It sucked having it this time too...I called the mission presidents wife and then she had to get in contact with the mission doctor. So I talked to her sunday and didnt hear back till tuesday. After that he told me what antibiotics i had to take. So i have been taking 4 pills a day and have to for a week. 

We just styaed home and yes he has been taking care of me. It has been very miserable tho! No movies to watch to pass the time.