WEEK 103 - August 5, 2018 (Santa Ana, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
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(editor: old pic, but one of my favorites) Hello Everybody, This last week in my mission was filled with a lot of eating food with members and saying goodbye to everybody. It's real tough saying goodbye to all the people I came to love here in Santa Ana and spent so much time with. Saying goodbye to all of them was definitely something that I haven't been looking forward. But I managed to keep myself together and not shed too many tears haha.  On Saturday we had a fun day. We had the baptisms of Wilma and Kimberly in the afternoon and then the big going away party in the evening. We ha ..read more
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WEEK 102 - July 29, 2018 (Santa Ana, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
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Hello Everybody! Welp, this it... 4th quarter, 9th inning, 18th hole, 12th round, 24th month. However you wanna put it,  it's all about to come to an end. I have been thinking my whole mission, how does it feel to be close to coming home. Sad? Happy? Excited? Scared? All I can say is that you really don’t know how it feels until you actually get there haha. These last few weeks I have been trying to do a really good job at recognizing my feelings and writing them down. I'll try to do my best in sharing what I have experienced this last week. Cake from my Distr ..read more
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WEEK 101 - July 22, 2018 (Santa Ana, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
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Mai Mai searching my hair for bugs (No she didn't find any) Hello Everybody! This week a big Signal 1 Storm (see bottom of letter) came in and rained HARD on Santa Ana for a few days. We would be in somebody's house, but not able to hear what the were saying because the rain would pound so hard on their little tin roof. The other night we woke up from time to time because of the rain and the wind, then all the sudden we heard a big SNAP. We looked outside and the big mango tree right outside of our house had timbered and landed on our neighbor's house. Hopefully that will be the last big st ..read more
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WEEK 100 - July 15, 2018 (Santa Ana, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
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Hello Everybody! As I write this letter, it is pouring rain outside. A big storm came in this last week and dumped rain on us for about 4 days. Cools things down, but is not too great when you have a hole in your shoe.  Everybody here in the Philippines is pretty happy this morning. Pacquiao won his fight on a knock out, so everyone was stoked about that. Unfortunately, when there is a Pac fight, the whole country shuts down. Everybody hunkers down in their houses and watches the fight. Even if the fight doesn't start util 1pm, they are at their TV by 10am watching and waiting. This ..read more
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Week 99 - July 8, 2018 (Santa Ana, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
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Hello Everybody!! Wow, we are now down to the last month. Such a weird thing to think that I will be seeing you guys next month. Doesn't feel real. Still loving every moment here in the Philippines and trying to make every minute count.  This last week was a very, very good one. We have been working real hard everyday, trying to do our best to visit all the less actives and investigators. It's gotten a lot harder because now we are covering both areas, all of Santa Ana. If you were to take a van from one side of our area to the other, it is about a 45 minute ride, huge. Since there are ..read more
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WEEK 98 - July 1, 2018 (Santa Ana, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
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Hello Everyone!! Well this week was another long hard working week. It has been pretty hot, but a storm came through and rained on us for about 12 hours. It put a nice fresh smell in the air and made it two times as humid. While walking on the road, it just felt like heat was steaming out of the ground. It did cool the weather down a bit though, especially at night, so we enjoyed it. The not so great thing though is when we are in our furthest area, and right as it starts to pour down we realized none of us brought an umbrella. That's when the filipinos, for the first time, see three differe ..read more
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WEEK 97 - June 24, 2018 (Santa Ana, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
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Hello Everybody, Happy B-day Grandpa Jenkins!! Even though you are gettin' old, you will still probably take me down on the golf course when I get back haha... Love ya! So today is transfer day, my last transfer here in the mission. Feels weird that this is the last. Bad news is that we found out yesterday that there will only be one companionship left here in the Santa Ana Branch. Big time bummer. Good news is that another missionary will join Elder Abarabar and me and we will be a trisome. Found out this morning that ELDER MOREHU will be with us!! haha We were sad back in Laoag because w ..read more
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WEEK 96 - June 18, 2018 (Santa Ana, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
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Hello Everyone, Happy Father's Day, pops! You're a great Dad and great example for us all :).  By the way, I feel so bad because I totally forgot that it was Father's Day yesterday and didn't do anything special for the fathers in the branch. On Mother's Day I bought all the moms chocolate and candy bars, and yesterday nothing happened haha. oops. But I'm pretty sure none of the fathers knew that it was Father's Day either. Still feel bad though.  This week was a really fun one. On Wednesday, we had the final Zone Conference with President and Sister Andrada. We had the conference ..read more
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WEEK 95 - June 10, 2018 (Santa Ana, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
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Hello Everybody! WooHoo!! This was a greeeat week. It has been smoking hot and raining off and on, but we are really really happy, and so are the people here. Right now is the Santa Ana Festival, so there are tons of events going on here in Centro. This is the only time of the year that there is a "night life" here in Santa Ana. People will go out at night and stay at the perya (fair) until midnight. They just eat, enjoy the rides, gamble, and go watch little events and performances in the gym. They love it so much. There were also rumors that Coco Martin (big celebrity here) would be co ..read more
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WEEK 94 - June 4, 2018 (Santa Ana, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
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Hello Everybody! First of all, congratulations to Mark Griffitts! Called to the best mission in the world. If you want to start you preparations, start taking cold showers and don't use toilet paper... but if I were you, I would cherish taking hot showers and using paper until the day you enter the field haha. (Mark is a member of our home ward who just got his call to Ryan's mission. They'll miss each other by one week!) Well this week was a real eventful week. One of the members in our Branch is a fisherman, and lately he's been catching tons of lobster and crab. So we have been fed real ..read more
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