May 27, 2013

Aight, so lil' update for the week. Our zone and another zone got together the other day and went to this school for a service project. It was way fun painting, cleaning, gardening this little school. I would send pictures, but I still don't trust these computers. I'm still not sure how I'll send pictures, but don't worry, I have a lot!!

We found a little provident region that's in our area, so that's nice to get a break from the city. We started teaching a new less active over there. Also,  these people called out to us while we were over there, so we went and OYM'ed them.  (OYM - Open Your Mouth).  It was a huge family, like 20 of them.  We gave them a few Books of Mormon and we're gonna go back and teach them. We've been killin it tracting and giving Books of Mormon lately and getting new peeps to teach.

Just a little update about a few people: We started teaching this new investie, Beverly. She's way dope. Lots of questions and way solid.

The girl from Alaska and her sister and friend have been doing great. They're coming to church now and want to get baptized. Their neighbors are members, so we all had FHE over there the other night. It was so nice. I love this ward so much. Work is so much better with some support from the ward.

Also, some members of our ward had a wedding Saturday, so we went to the reception. There have been so many weddings lately. But all is going great out here. Transfer day is next week. Crazy! It goes by so fast.

Love you guys!

May 20th

Yeah freak Isn't that weird? Elder Herrmann and Elder Sargent and everyone are hitting their year marks. Me and Elder Moulton are next! It goes by fast. That's dope you and the bois moms keep in touch.

Yeah, I  got my packages and everything! Thanks! The mini triple especially is way sick! My comp is lovin' the Laffy Taffy's. Cool about all the missionaries too (stats in our stake).

Just a little quick update because I gotta leave soon for our zone activity to go duck bowling. I still have no idea what that is, but ya!

So first thing, we got this family we're teaching. Their last name, Goku. Just like Dragonball Z! How sick is that? I get to go over and pray and say, "Heavenly Father, please bless the Goku family. I can't wait to baptize them.  I can say I baptized Goku! Haha!

Also, a less active family who we got going back to church, brother had his interview yesterday and is getting the priesthood and gets to baptize his 8 year old kid. Then after a few weeks their, katulong, or maid I guess, should be getting baptized too. Yeah! Kinda had bad luck so far with getting lots of baptisms. I always get transferred before baptisms and stuff, but it's all good. I don't always have to be the one reaping the rewards.  What is most important is to just plant those seeds. It's not about the numbers, which is good cause our numbers have been bad this week! We can't teach if there's not a guy there 18+, so we got punted a ton. But we're still working hard!

We had a farewell party Saturday for 3 of our ward missionaries leaving on their missions. Two of them are going to Cebu, so I told them to keep an eye out for David Buckley. Cebu is way dope, but I still love my small little mission, haha. 

Also, Skyping was way dope of course! Tryin' not to get too trunky! S'all good though! Did Leonard get his call yet?

Saturday, we had another temple tour, so we took the girl who's visiting from Alaska as well as her sister and friend. We've been teaching them a lot and they're doing way good. She goes home though next week so I'll just refer her family to good ol' Elder Ashton Roney!

All is going well! Just tryin' not to get too trunky. I've been missing the snow and Park Ciity bad lately. aaaa...

Gihigugma taka! (love you, in bisaya, language that David will be speaking. Trying to learn a bit of that too)

10 Month Mark!!!

Mother's Day 2013

 
We were blessed to be able to Skype with Elder Molnar on Mother's Day.  Unfortunately, there was a delay because the malls were closed due to the elections, but we waited up and finally connected.  Thank you Sister Sperry for the heads up!  Although our video was clear, we were a blur on his end.  :-(  We spent much time logging in and out hoping for clearer reception.  In the end, it was just good for us to be able to see him (and his companion who wants us to adopt him). Thankfully, he looks healthy and is in good spirits.  We will post a letter from him next week.  We hope that he will finally get his two birthday packages soon. :-(  

Love you Elder!

Mom & Dad

5/8/13

Aight, so just real quick since I get to see you guys in a few days via Skype! I hope the Mothers Day present I sent was fine. I hope you're happy 'cause now I have to use my ugly magnet name tag for a few months till my new name tags get here. 

My Mother's Day present - (frame broke in shipment)

Wait, what? Brittany Moulton's coming out again? Dope! 

So, this last week was waaaay dope. I'm lovin' this ward. My comp and I would work way hard and get tons of good lessons in, and then had dinner with a member everyday last week. It's been so nice. Our missions working a lot with the wards trying to get members to "rescue the one" and bring all these less actives back to church.

This is kinda cool. My first day here, this chick called out to me and said that she's visiting from Alaska and wants to speak English to someone. Ha! So, we've been teaching here and  her family that she has here. Way fun! Although it's my first time teaching the lessons in English and for some reason, it's so freakin' hard! But it's good 'cause we have a ward missionary who leaves in July to serve in Canada, so he comes when we teach her, to practice his English. But I talked with the girl, Kim, and told her how Ashton Roney is serving in Alaska, so when she goes home next month, we're gonna get missionaries to their house. Cool, huh? 

We've been finding tons of new people to teach and are getting things going good here, although they will probably transfer us out in june to put sisters in this area. but it's all good. there's tons of new sisters coming in now. but yeah i'm running out of time! see ya next week!

But yeah, that's all for now! I will tell you more details face to face next week via Kkype! Ahh, I'm really so stoked! 

Love you guys!

April 29, 2013 from Sto Nino Meycuauyan

This email thing's being gay, so I'll just write about the week real quick here. Also, I havent gotten my packages yet, but hopefully tomorrow.

Yeah! So I'm already in my third area, so nuts. It's called Sto Nino Meycuauyan. Seems pretty good so far. Just way hot. Ha, especially now that I'm not near the mountains anymore. Our ward is way dope. They pass around a dinner calendar to the members at church to feed the missionaries. Stuff like that never happens in wards here! We have a dinner like every night this week. My new comp is Elder Pablico, second Pinoy comp. He's way freakin dope though. I'm actually way stoked for this transfer. My new area has a bit of everything, lots of huge factories, squaters, little bit of providence, and some city. There's this river in my area that a few weeks ago my comp saw this kid drowning in it, so he jump in and saved him. Although, he came out and was like black from how dirty they water was with all the trash and stuff. He's way dope.

Transfers were good.  It didn't feel like my birthday at all though. But that night there was a wedding reception at our ward, so I got some good food at least. Although freak! One of the elders who just finished his mission a few transfers back, came for the reception and rolled up in a car with a girl in the front. Ha freak! Trunky!

K, just real quick 'cause I'm outta time.Lot's of good stuff lately, been killin it. But here's one dope lesson we had. We went to teach a young couple and we got there and they were fighting cause brother wanted to watch basketball and his wife wouldn't let him. Way gay! But they were way ticked. We went in, shared a good message, and by the end everyone was laughing and talking again. Fact! Gospel does bless families.

 'Sup dad! My new areas pretty good so far. My new ward seems amazing. We already met with our bishop to talk about missionary work! I've only done that like twice so far, my whole mish. But good! My package got there. Sorry, I'd send you one too when Father's Day comes, but I'm done sending packages. It costs like 1500 pisos. (like 35 bucks?) Yeah, my new comp is way dope, so I'm glad. Also, U think we get to skype on the 12th. I'll tell you guys the plan when they tell us. But ya, all's going well. Keep an eye out for that letter. Love ya!

Aight, that's all. Sorry, I'm outta time!

Love ya all!

Happy Birthday Elder Molnar!!!!

4/23/13

K, first off.. for my next package whenever that will be, wanna send me some snowboard magazines? Some transworld mags and snowboarder mags would be great. All i have to hang on my walls are a few ski pics I get from Elder Redder. Thanks! Also have you heard who it was who bombed the Boston Marathon? I've heard a little about it. Also did you hear about a poison letter to Obama? I dunno. I don't hear much out here.

Freak! I'm so old now! It's all good. I heard one of Taylor Swifts new songs the other day while I was out about being 22. So looks like it's still cool to be old. Ha, but I had to celebrate today cause I'm getting transferred to a new area tomorrow on my bday. Haha, perfect timing. Ah well, I'm stoked. But I had a nice lil lunch and got a nice foot massage to celebrate. Freak, I was dying though. I was balling so bad at first. I'm so dang ticklish. Still nice though. yeah!

This week was dope! Sorry, I forgot to write down what happened. Last Thursday was way dope. We found this little trail going into some trees and followed it and found this huge beautiful field. I rode a goat. Then it started pouring and a huge lightening storm hit, so we threw our stuff under a tree and chilled in the rain and just took a moment to realize the beauty of where we're at.

My comp was sick for a few days this week, but we had a good weekend. We had this old investigator I met once my first week here who came to church with his family to bless their baby. He really wanted us to come over and start teaching him again. Way sick! So of course, like everyone else, they aren't married so gotta do that first, but he really wants to get married and baptized.

Also, a few weeks back we talked to this guy for a minute while we were waiting for a jeepney, and he said he wanted a Book of Mormon. So, we said we'd come to his house later and give him one. We tried but had a wrong address and never found his house. But the other day we were walking and passed this house and this guy yelled out, "Hey where's my book?" We were like huh? Whatever! Just another crazy guy. So we kept walking, then heard him say "Elders". Duh. Turned around and it happened to be that guy we could never find. He said he finished reading the Old and New Testament and needed a new book to read. So, we gave him an Ang Aklat Ni Mormon and set a return appointment. There's definitely no coincidences in missionary work.

Well, that's all for now. I gotta get going to my little birthday dinner tonight! I'll let ya know next week what happens with transfers!

Love ya!

Elder Molnar