hey, How is everyone?! how is life??
well my life is doing great! its full of ups and downs, and full of surprises!
so this week was crzy busy! so i'll update you about our baptisms!
yep, we had 2 baptisms!! Ryan, the investigator that i have been
telling you about every week, yep thats him, he got baptized. and his
5 friends are all coming to church and to activities and will most
likely get baptized on july 7! so keep them in your prayers!! i think
most of them are solid and will be great missionaries. one of them is
18 and is just soaking up everything that we are teaching him. he
still has a long ways to go. but we also had Sister Rose Marie that
got Baptized! she like begged us to baptized so we thought we would
let her. she is awesome! and i know that this decision that she made
will bless her life incredibly. so this week, i saw the fruit of our
labor. like i told you all before, i was kinda wondering if i was
making an impact in our area cuz we are always gone and feel like we
aren't doing a lot of work. but after i thought that, thats when i met
ryan. and now look at him, he is now baptized and now a member of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! so its been so neat to
see this whole process in his life from the start all the way to his
baptism, plus more. and his friends as well! so thats the status with
our investigators.
I am enjoying my calling as well.i love working with stake leaders,
and i am preparing my talk for this saturday for the Stake Priesthood
meeting. im excited and honored to give a talk.
 
so these last few weeks, the church has organized or funded a medical
mission in the philippines.. and President has asked that my companion
and i volunteer to be translators. so we went on saturday and there
were a ton of people. and all the army and police men have these huge
machine guns (even security guards here have huge guns, like sawed off
shot guns and they probably don't even know how to use them...) and
once they saw us, they had us go straight to the front (probably cuz
they saw that we were americans) and so we went to the front and long
story short, they told us that they didn't need us cuz they had too
many volunteers. so we were so disappointed. we were so excited to
help. cuz the doctors are americans and most of them are members. and
they need translators. so i was really looking forward to talk to some
members from america. but the US navy and army was there..and wow, its
so weird to see americans here! its weird. its actually quite
comforting that i am not the only white person in the middle of no
where. and man, i forgot how big americans are. i was so use to being
the biggest person here, and when i saw how big some army men are, i
was like wow they are huge! but im sure in america its no big deal. so
this week, wednesday and thursday we get to help translate again, and
this time we'll get in cuz we are going with pres. Andaya. so we are
excited!
so thats about all thats going on. i am really enjoying it here, and
time is going by so fast! i cant believe its almost July, and time is
just counting down. its almost transfers i feel like. we are so busy.
lets just say it doesn't take long for me to fall asleep when my head
hits my pillows..im usually so tired that i am too tired to get into
my covers.. haha so thanks for everything! i love you all and thank
you all for your prayers and support! i know i couldn't do it without
you all. i pray for you all as well. have a great day! Just remember,
the Church is always True! its So true, and we are so blessed to be
members of the True Church!
Love you!
Love, Elder Nelson