Julaaaaaayyyyy!

Yoooozzzzzaaaaahh! 

You know what? There's this very infamous line about missionaries when 'week 6' is on the road. Usually, they call it 'Trunky Week'. Hahahaha! Yea, believe it or not, lot of missionaries, if only possible, can use the hashtag '#trunkyweek' or #trunkynessisreal'. Haha! Funny thing is, my companion keeps on tracking his remaining days left. Just right now, his batchmate, who happens to be our zoneleader, ask him how many days they still have. Hahahaha! Would you look at that? :P I told him we're gonna work hard this week even if the area is really challenging. Yep, there's a lot of new investigators everyweek but it's really hard to get hold of them the next time. Hahaha! Yea, one example of it was last week, we we're biking from our farthest area and suddenly it rains, so we went into a waiting shed to wait for the rain to stop, then our investigators (family) saw us like 500 yards away from us, then suddenly took right turn so that they can't see us like face to face.. hahaha! Well, 'The Lord knows' 😀 The Lord knows why.. I trust Him wholeheartedly. I just work and work. Indeed, the very secret of Missionary work, is to work. Work hard and to work smart.

So, transfer again (so fast wasn't it?)
So Elder Van Dyke is getting transferred to Baguio Zone, he's the new zone leader naaaaw. Well, to good for him, he never been a DL before and not a DL right now but called to be the new ZL. too dope! Haha. I'm happy for that guy. We've been together for 3 months (Housemate) and at first I really thought he was weird, but nah. All the blame's on me, I'm just judgemental and being a dork tryin' to oppose him all the time. But yea, we hang out a lot, talk a lot and laugh about a lot of stuffs. He spent 6 months in Tagudin and we all like, 'Elder Van Dyke's going to spend another 6 months here, or maybe a year'. Hahaha! But all goods. Elder Apuhin is going to replace him (Good Lord, at last! A filipino kabahay! hahaha)   

Last Saturday was Nanay Nerina's baptism. It was really dope, teaching her requires fluency in Ilokano and it freak us out! Hahahaha! But all good :) Those lovely ladies at my back are my Nanay's :D (Except the Sister Missionaries :P) 

And oh, they all say na i'm getting thinner and thinner, as well as I'm getting black, toast, or pretty much roasted. Hahaha! What can I do? You can't use umbrella while biking 😂😂😂

All love from your hommie,

Pouch me! 

 

Maraming Pogi dito 😂😂

Good day, good day! 

Woohooo! it's the 26th of June! (Hey Sister Junio, your name got included here! Hahaha)

So yeah, thanks for all the peeps who remembered my day. (Nah, it's not really my birthday, wink wink nod nod) Hahaha.

Well, so much for all the love. I am celebrating my last birthday here in the mission field! Woohoo! Last year I was in my 1st area (La Paz, Abra) and celebrating it with bunch of Filo's (Filipino's), but yea, today I am celebrating it together with my niggah's (bunch of Americans, all came from Utah! HAHA!)

let's do a throwback! :D

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HAPPY 12th YEAR TO ME! 😂😂😂
 

 

I just got some good news way back home!

Some Elder Missionaries in my ward emailed me today! Wooooaahhh. And guess what happened?

What a blessing to know that my mom is taking lessons now. Hopefully they can also teach my whole family :) God bless this Elder for doing this initiative. 

Please do also pray for my mom's progression in taking lessons. :)

Ooopppsss!

Just wanna add more, so, me and elder thomas really like biking (feel the sarcasm) Haha. So, we bike and hike and go to different areas that we think we'll have success (talk about faith, yea boy!) so, there's this bridge, a hanging bridge. And we bike all the way.. check this out,

He like it so much he doesn't want to go back anymore. Hahaha! 

Good dayyyyy!

Woohooo!What a blessing to write and express my gratitude and thoughts in this letter :)

Well, a lot of things happened last week that I didn't include in my last post. But I intended to post some pictures for that 😁 So please be patient with me..

First, Did I tell you guys that we had some CSP-thingy last week? Hahaha! Yea! we labor in a rice field and it's so dope that my kabahays did something else. Hahaha!

 Hahaha. It was fun, tho we don't really know how to do it right, at least we had the chance to help them do the job fast. #qualityvsquantity Hahaha.

Soooo! last week, we hike! been to a falls lately in Sta.Cruz, Ilocos! So good, I told myself na ''babalik ako dito, mag swimming!'' HAHAHA!

 We woke up at 5, then got in the meeting place at 6AM. Yea, Filipino time is real. Hahaha! (it was Independence day)

 

Elder Brimhall, my new niggah (metaphor)

 Elder Tabaua, my one big kiribati friend.

Nope, no swimming allowed.  Haha! 

See how majestic the view is? Nah, not Sister Del Pillar or Elder Acido. The FALLS! Look at the falls! HAHA

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Done with the falls escapade, let's go to last week's events..

Well, We had our Zone Conference once again. T'was nice to see good-old-friends-faces again. Hahaha. We've been chastised by President but I always felt the love behind the chastisement. It's always feels good to hear him talk and counsel us about our goal and purpose here in the Mission Field. I just love President Bangal, he's like a father to me and to everyone in the mission field.. :)

 TAGUDIN ZONE. The zone that looks like a district! But just like the scriptures say, ''By small and simple things, are great things brought to pass'' #SMALLBUTTERRIBLE

 Ate Steph from BECOOL! Yea, they catered our food during conferences. :)

Yea, the pictures says it all. G-day to y'all!

Devastated -_-

At laaaaassst!!! after a month I am able to post something to this 'so-called' blog. Hahahaha! I don't even know what to right but yea. Let's try to recall what happened for the past month....

first thing! I got my new companion, he's my 14th. yea? not bad aye? Haha. He's Elder Devin Thomas, coming from South Jordan, Utah. He was assigned to be my companion after Elder Ballesta got ET-ed (yea, that's right, he got ET-ed and went to Baguio to cool down.. I think it would be best for him to be there, new area, new companion. Something that will make him forget what happened here in Tagudin) Anyways, he came last May 9th. Right after Zone Conference which was participated by other zones, Bangued, Candon, Tagudin and Bacnotan. It was a blast! Totally not expecting that I'll have a new companion too soon! Well, it's President Bangal's decision and inspiration so, I just trust him. It was still week 4 when he came in so I just try to introduce him first with some members in the ward. After a week, me and Elder Vicente got a 1 week exchanges! Isn't amazing? hahaha! It wasn't planned but I think because Elder Vicente is so sick of being with Elder Van Dyke, he decided to just come and be with me. Of course we still work, we work in our area and they work in theirs. Until Elder Vicente got transferred to my previous area.. Darn it! It made me miss the folks out there 😭😭😭 I missed them a lot. Like yea, I will totally visit them when I get back home (10 MONTHS NA LAAAANG!) (Just now, I heard that Sister Junio is getting transferred.. guess where? yea! like yea. She's getting transferred to LA TRINIDAD! She's going up to the mountains for the 2nd time now! Wooooah!)

second (I guess) .. So weeks passed and transfer came.. Elder Benjamin Brimhall replace Elder Vicente in our house. Yea, he's good. he's funny. he looks exactly like Chris Brand! Hahahaha! But he's totally cool. Fun to be with him..

So I guess I can summarized the rest from this point. Hahahaha! Well, at it wasn't really good/easy to be with 3 americans in your apartment. But times goes by, I kept reading about ''Control Yourself'' topic by President Brigham Young. And it really helped me a lot. The next chapter in his 'discourses' made me stronger and my patience longer than ever. Tho it's not perfect but I can really say that I did progress. (I was like, yea! in your face Satan!) So yea, I kept on reading those discourses (Tho President Bangal said that 'DISCOURSES are BAWAL NA', haha. Sorry President, I just need a little help from brother young) So after reading some of brother brigham's counsel, I read some part of 'Miracle of Forgiveness' book. I read it before and guess what? I'm still in the mission field! Hahaha! Most folks says that that book has a curse, most missionaries that tries to read it go home. Like yea, they go home and never come back. I didn't really read the whole book, I just read some chapters that can help me grow (of course the whole book intends to help us grow. lol) this time, with all the challenges that I am facing right now. The best part of it was the part where brother kimball said 'FORGIVE TO BE FORGIVEN' and 'AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS'. Like for real! I was struck by something that made me soft in the inside.. The book is really powerful, I can testify of it. It is indeed for those people (specially me) who needed some great encouragement..

So blah ba blah ba blah. Good grief, we are having a baptism this 24th! (crossedfingers) well, it wasn't really our investigator, like we weren't the ones who taught them first. but their baptism (supposedly after the week that I came in here in Tagudin) got postponed. It was really complicated to explain, haha. or safe to say that I'm getting bored to tell that part. Hahahaha! Anyways, we are hopeful that we can baptize them.So please include us in your prayers okay?

+Well, today since it's PDAY, we went into a 'secret falls' called 'KAGUTINGAN FALLS' i dunno if that was really its name, I first heard it was like, 'KAGUTUMAN' and yea, we woke up at 4 in the morning to prepare and travel to Sta.Cruz, and it turns out .. tadaaaa! we went to that falls like 6:30am. HAHAHA! The whole Tagudin District with some Sta.Lucia Ward Members came too. So yea, we went there and it was really dope. It was cool az.. I was really tempted to jump and swim, but oooppppsss! Imma still a Missionary. Hahaha. (I was like, in your face again Satan!) But like for real. It was really beautiful, I told myself that, that's one of the place I will visit when I get back home.. too bad my SD CARD is malfunctioning and this freakin' computer can't read it. So too bad, hopefully there's no virus! But yea, crossedfingers again :)

And oh Sister Magallanes is getting transferred too.( with the special transfer President is talking about these days) Hahaha! All in the district freak out when Elder Acido announced it last night. We all thought that no one in the District is getting transferred. So, the whole curse of Tagudin Zone is still present. The GOAL??? WEEKLY ET. HAHAHAHA!

So yea, that's all for now.
Thank you for reading :)
Let's do it again next week!

PS:Hindi na ako kalbo, promise :)
HAHAHAHA!

Pouch me :D