Sorry i didnt email last week. I wasnt feeling too good. But its worse this week. I got strep throat on friday.

So things werent really to great this week starting friday. I got strep throat. It sucks haha.

On wednesday we went to the family with the baptismal date for april 18...best day they could possibly be baptized if you ask me. We road bikes for a good hr up and down hills to get to their house. Worth it though. They are totally ready. Then on thursday we were at one of our far areas again and some of the sisters in my district called and the new sister that has been out for about 2 weeks needed a blessing. So we headed over there and my companion lost the phone on the way over haha. We get there and are waiting outside there house with now way to contact them. They told us they would be there. We talk to the land lady who is a member and she gets a hold of them and the make there way over. The sister is teary eyed so is was a great blessing to be able to give her a blessing. We did manage to fine the phone btw. Someone had picked it up. Thats pretty much it except for being sick.

I do have medicine and it must be some pretty crappy medicine haha i still feel pretty terrible after 4 days. It is getting slightly better though.

I did get the packages mom. Thank you and please say thank you to sister staggie.

Hopefully i feel better tomorrow because I have to teach district meeting and them have special training with President Rahlf.

Love you guys.

So we had transfers this week. We didnt have any changes in the companionship. We do however have a new elder living with us. Elder Hardy from Utah. So far he seems like a cool guy. This is only his second area so he is still pretty new.

Not much really happened this week. We did use bikes this week thought and it broke on us when we were far from anywhere. So that was a pain in trying to get fix.

1. What has been your biggest challenge this week? Umm not to sure haha

2. What has been your biggest concern? Time...our area is HUGE!

3. What has been your biggest success? Well we have a new family that we are teaching and the all accepted a baptism date for april 18...the best day ever of course:)

4. Who has been your favorite person this week? Why? Me of course haha that is the best answer:) Because im awesome:) No one else just really stands out in my mind this week.

5. What has been your most significant tender mercy? Well I just love little kids here. They always want to play with me so i sometimes get to play with them.

6. What are you looking forward to this coming week? This week we have an activity with the SA in our ward so that should be a good time.

7. Do you have a goal set for this coming week? Tell me about it. Well lets just make this week better than last week. Sounds like a pretty good goal to me haha.

8. Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week? Mathew 4:19- This is one of the scriptures that I am going to be using in my district meeting. It is an invitation from Jesus with the promised blessings if they willl do it.

Love you guys

Manila was awesome!! It was a blast haha. I will start from the beginning.

So I had to travel to the airport alone. It felt really weird being without a companion haha but I could totally survive on my own here.
I got to the airport at 11 and meet up with the others who were going. The flight was delayed so we didnt get to manila until 4.

We got there and the guy picked us up and said we were going to to the finger printing the next day so he took us straight to the hotel. After we checked in we were free to do what we wanted. So me and two others elders went to SM megamall. We got a TAXI haha and went there. It literally felt like I was in LA or something. It was so different, huge buildings and i dont haha just a real city.

The mall was huge! Six stories big. We maybe saw 1/10 of the mall. But we got there and I bought jamba juice right away haha and the we were looking for somewhere to eat..we ate at chili's:) Then we got dairyqueen for dessert. I was so full! I ate sooo much food. Then we walked around the mall and I found a shop and got some stuff. It was expensive though. I got some shirts and other things for you guys.

So at the end of the we got a taxi back home. We told the guy the hotel and he starts driving. After 4 min he asks us again and then says he doesnt know where that is....and kicks us out of the taxi...so we try to get another taxi but there arent any available. So were lost in Maila haha. So we decide to just find our way back to the hotel. (the taxi ride from the hotel to the mall was about 30 min haha) So we start walking and the other elders have no idea were we are. But being me has perks..I remembered the way the taxi came and remember seeing certain buildings so I found out way back. We were walking around the city for probably 2 hrs. It was sooo fun haha. I was impressed with myself for finding the way back after being in manila for only 6 hrs.

It was a great trip though haha I ate so much food..chili's, jamba juice, DQ, burger king, wendys, yellow cab pizza, and crispy creams:)

1. What has been your biggest challenge this week? After coming back from manila...wanting to work again. It was like coming back from vacation but it turned out fine.

2. What has been your biggest concern? Making it back home in time for our baptism. I got there right as they were starting:)

3. What has been your biggest success? Baptism in the river:) It was a great experience and the sister has a strong testimony.

4. Who has been your favorite person this week? Why? Elder Lee. He is sooo freakin funny and made the Manila trip so fun. He doesnt try to be funny but is is kinda of retarded and its just so funny.

5. What has been your most significant tender mercy? With the baptism there was a little 8 yr old girl. She is awesome and has a great testimony. I was also able to confirm her and give the Holy Ghost.

6. What are you looking forward to this coming week? Transfer day! We are getting a new Elder in the house but I am sad that Elder Latu is leaving. He is really awesome!

7. Do you have a goal set for this coming week? Tell me about it. Work hard! Since I was really busy this last week I want to work extra extra hard.

8. Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week? Alma 37:6 by small and simple things are great ting brought to pass. God calls the week to be his servants. He reshapes them into the instruments he needs.

Love you guys!

Ya haha sorry I didnt email last week. We were busy doing stuff. I had a pretty good week though.

1. What has been your biggest challenge this week? The biggest challenge this week has been getting punted. Which is going to our teaching appointment and them not being there. It seemed to happen everyday this week.

2. What has been your biggest concern? I havent really been too concerned with anything this week. I guess the biggest would just be planning the district meeting lesson.

3. What has been your biggest success? This week we had a baptismal interview for one of our investigators. She passed and her baptism will be on Saturday!

4. Who has been your favorite person this week? Why? Bro. Kevin. He just turned 18. He is the only member in his family and he always works with us. He is also getting ready to go on his mission.

5. What has been your most significant tender mercy? I went on splits with Elder Latu this week and we worked in their area. One of the things I noticed is that I loved the people we were teaching even though it was the first time I met them.

6. What are you looking forward to this coming week? Well I got an email that said I have to get some pictures of myself printed because IN GOING TO MANILA! We have to do some visa stuff or something so we are going to be there friday and saturday. After the visa stuff we get to go to the malls and stuff.

7. Do you have a goal set for this coming week? Tell me about it. I need to stop being lazy and start working out hahaha

8. Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week? Alma 5:27. I read this scripture and asked myself the question. If i were called to die...so I was able to look at myself, see the things I need to fix and set goals to be better.

The first picture is of balut...its not that bad. I have eaten it a couple of times now.

The second is of some little girls that ran up to me and were asking to take a pic haha.

And the last is of me, kevin, jong, and fe-ann in the rice field on the way to some investigators.

Love you guys