Monday, December 27, 2004 Siguro, susubokan kong magsulat sa Tagalog kasi gusto kong makita ang aking paguunlad sa Tagalog. Medyo magaling na ako pero hindi pa talaga. Sana sapat ang aking kahusayan kapag dumating ang bagong kasama ko si Elder…
Teaching in church
Sunday, December 26, 2004 We only had two investigators, out of the four that we were hoping for, come to church: Bro Sergio Aldana and Bro Selso Lopez. Our meetings were good. In priesthood I taught about testimony and sharing…
Merry Christmas from Mindoro
Saturday, December 25, 2004 Well this has been the craziest Christmas day of my life. This morning I got to talk to my family. It was good but it took us forever to get it all set up because I…
Christmas Eve on Mindoro
Friday, December 24, 2004 We had a zone service project this morning out in Magsaysay. They have an investigator who we helped to build his house. It was good but there were too many people really and so we didn’t’…
Crazy travel day
Thursday, December 23, 2004 Today was a crazy day. We’re sleeping in San Jose tonight because we have zone service tomorrow in Magsaysay and we have to be there fairly early. We had a good lesson this mornin to the…
Fixing records and the Sabbath day
Wednesday, December 22, 2004 Today wasn’t a normal P-Day. We decided to take our P-day on Friday because we’ll be in San Jose for Christmas. This morning we did a lot of work for the branch. We spent the whole…
Packages from home
Tuesday, December 21, 2004 We had our zone development meetings today in San Jose. It was really good; Elder Fa’oa and Elder Boucher taught about anchoring our testimonies and ourselves on Jesus and then also how to help our investigators…
Taking care of “visa” papers
Monday, December 20, 2004 Today was a big waste of time. We did our weekly planning session and that went well. We really have to step up the work because our people have all been baptized, almost, that were strong…
Vilorias are confirmed
Sunday, December 19, 2004 Church was really good today. The Spirit was strong and all the teachers were there and were prepared. Bro Pulido taught in priesthood about being happy in life and not focusing on the bad things that…
The Viloria’s Baptism
Saturday, December 18, 2004 This morning we had the baptismal service of Romil and Maricel Viloria! Wow! So rewarding. All of the trouble and hassle of the marriage and of the interview with Pres Beck is finally worth it. The…