Well
the really surprising news is that I am NOT TRANSFERRED! WHAT! yeah,
everyone thought I was going to be transferred, I have been here 5
months now, and now I will be here for almost 7 haha, I am way excited
though because I didn't want to leave, there is going to be so much
happening the month of January! We have 4 solid baptisms coming up this
week, and two of them are a part member family, which would mean this
will be my first completed family in my entire mission! I love that
flippin family so dang much its insane, I just want to be with them all
the time, and they nearly cried when I told them I thought I was going
to be transferred. I really feel the love from the Ward, and the members
here. I have gotten so close to all these people here, i figured I was
transferred, so I kind of warned everyone that i was going to be
transferred, haha. They all start giving me gifts and pictures, letters,
and food... haha so I am going to go to church on Sunday and just say
JOKE LANG! which means I was just kidding haha. They will all miss Elder
Olsen as well, they really like him here. I am so grateful I get to
spend another transfer with these wonderful people.
Christmas
was awesome, we visited some families, of course we ate tons of food,
and did some work of course. Then we went to a house and had a REAL American dinner. A foreign man from Switz cooked us tenderloin steaks,
with mashed potatoes, veggies, and apple pie with ice cream. I will not
even attempt to explain how good it tasted... ah... They are so nice,
they own a big store, and they just give us free stuff all the time, and
I just feel like a boss when I just walk through the back like I own
the place, everyone just gives us that look.. haha plus we are friends
with all the workers. I am trying to get a lesson in with them but they
don't really care about religion.. we will change that.
We
had our Christmas Parties with the Zone Leaders, and also as a ward
which was really fun. As a district we had a Nacho Bar! played games,
and shared spiritual messages! We had lots of fun at the Ward Christmas
party, there was a lot of dancing and music, and fetch!! I wanted to
dance so bad! but I just can not, its bawal... when I get back, and I
can be YSA ah man I am going to be all up on that dance floor lookin
like a dweeb! ayos lang... At our District Christmas party we played
games from Whose' line is it anyways! haha It was so funny. We were
playing the bachelor game, and one of the elders was Squirttle
hahahahaha I almost had an ahzma attack from laughing so hard! it was a
good time. The mission is the best!
Yesterday
was actually a really cool day and I will try and keep it short
explaining it. Basically we went to a really far area to visit a member
who hasn't been visited for how many years now, and it was weird because
some guy showed up to church who has a car that lives right next to
him, so we were able to get a ride in his car to the super far area, the
car ride was so nice... anyways it turns out that this family has been
praying for missionaries to come back recently, and boy was the father
so excited, he was jumping up and down shouting for joy, and invited all
his neighbors to come and see us, and be taught by us! Plus everyone we
talked too over there was way receptive! So the members and I have
plans to see if we can get something started over there, like a group or
a branch. We will see what will happen, but it was a testimony builder.
We got 38 oyms in one day, and our mission standard is 50 in one week.
it was another testimony builder for me that the Lord prepares people to
fulfill his purposes!
Elder Kikel
-on the Lord's errand-
San Pablo Philippines Mission |
| just having fun while we work with the members! |
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| Potential Completed family! |
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| My shoes after visiting that family! |
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| Our Christmas Dinner! |
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| Here is a picture of that Family that lives in that really far area! The
father is the the guy in the cut off blue shirt in the middle. He is
the man! |
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