Week 42

Welp, 

I dont have a whole lot of time so ill try to make it fast and give you a quick summary of everything that happened this week. 

First the most heart breaking thing you will feel as a missionary is an investigator calling you the day of their baptism and saying they wont be baptized. Nothing else compares to that feeling as a missionary. So John wasnt baptized on saturday however with some praying and fasting he should be in the coming weeks. 

Second Ella was baptized on saturday! However we realized sunday right before she was confirmed that her name was wrong. So we couldnt confirm her and we had to hold another baptism and re baptize her last night hahaha. Needless to say make sure you have the right name. 

Last this morning we were able to attend a wedding! Caintic family was married! It was definitly something i will never forget and it was something else but we are now so excited for them. A couple more things to do and they will be baptized as well!

Good news last sunday we had 16 investigators at church. That was super exciting and a lot of them are progressing as well.

Got a call Sunday night from President asking me to be a District Leader. So i am still in my same area with Elder Ugalino but I am DL now!

 Love you all lots

Elder gsack

pics from baptism one and two haha

wedding this morning!!

FHE the other night

fun with elder ugalino

wedding

Week 41

Hello,

Meet Jared Muyano (Ill attach a picture). Jared is 10 years old and a recent convert. His whole family is members however very less active and actually want nothing to do with the church but 10 year old Jared every week finds a way and comes to church. And every week he comes to me and asks me if we can come and visit him during the week and of course we are more then happy to but he doesnt know his address and his house is so hard to find. So needless to say we have tried so many times but can never find it. 

Well the other day we were walking passed kinda where Jared lives and i had the thought we need to go and see him. So we took a de tour and were off to jareds. And as we were searching for his house we were walking down i street we hadnt walked down before and then we saw jared jumping up and down waving us down. 

okay now flip to jared. Jared had been home alone all day. All his siblings go to work and dont come home till late. He goes to bed before they come home and wakes up after they leave so 10 year old Jared basically lives by himself. Welp it was the afternoon and Jared decided to take a nap. Well while he was napping he had a dream. In his dream he said he was talking to a man. He didnt know who the man was but the man said to him "Jared wake up, the angels are coming to see you" and so Jared woke up and walked out side to see the "Angels" coming to see him. Well there were no angels just a super tall american and a short filippino. When he told us his dream i was just amazed. we had no plan of going to see jared that day and we didnt even know where he lived but i know through the Lord Miracles truly do happen. Its just so amazing that if we have the faith, God will take care of the rest. We were able to share a super happy fun message with him and shoot a couple baskets before we had to go. 

other side of things. John wasnt baptized this past week but good news he is this week and has a partner. So both John and Ella are being baptized this week!

Donna went and did baptisms for the dead the other day in the temple so that is super cool. First convert to do that!

Lots of work to do here and we absolutely slaughter ourselves daily. Tuesday we walked in the door at 9:29 pm, after 12 hours of proselyting and 16 lessons i went to sleep on the kitchen floor in my proselyting clothes. love my life. love you all lots!

Elder gsack

Labrums baptism last week

District man

THis is Jared :)

Best text kind of message you can receive

Week 40

Hello,

This week has been pretty fun. Couple of quick things before i write my big thought. Tatay Miguel is out of the hospital! We got to go and visit him yesterday and yes it was really sad but i was just so happy to see him and talk to him. He still remember my name and everything it was super sweet. 

We also got to go to Tagaytay again this past p day. We went up to a place called peoples park. It wasnt anything like last time. Last time was all rides and games and this one was just really pretty views. However one thing happened. Mallory i hate to break it to you but you are no longer the only sibling that held a crocodile on their mission. Oh yeah thats right i got to hold one and it was beyond dope... pictures will be coming. 

This week is Johns Baptism. We are super excited for him. He passed his interview the other day and all things are lined up. However the other night he asked us if he could move his baptism. He told us how he was afraid for his baptism. He basically just opened up to us and shared his doubts and everything. we were able to teach him a super spiritual lesson about how the closer you get to your baptism the harder satan is going to work to mess it up. We were able to point out to him how much of a testimony he truly had and how he truly knew this is the true church. It was a super sweet lesson and the spirit was beyond strong. 

Life besides that is good. Love you all

Elder Gsack

selfies with Jesus :)

more views with elder labrum and montilla

Views

Mallory this is for you... I even held him like a baby ;)

this is my favorite member here in the ward

went on splits yesterday. my companion was elder gabriel, hes brand new :)

Week 39

This isnt to exciting of an email but i thought i would just write you a funny story for the week. So the other night we were at a members house. And they had their electric fan going however i notice it was a little broken. and trying to be a good person i went over to try and see what I could do to fix it. So as i am working on this fan i see that two wires arent attached and for some reasons i thought it would be a good reason and it would help the fan if i attached the two wires. Well next thing you know i get shocked so bad i feel it from head to toes and it just drops me to the ground. Yes it hurt so bad and gave me the biggest headache but my companion and the members were just laughing at me and now looking back yes it was funny. But moral of the story if the electric fan is broken, just leave it broken. 

love you all lots!

Elder Sackley

This is the only one i am going to send because i dont want to scare mom to bad. 

And this investigators texted us saying we cant come over because they are going "Sweeming" ahhaha i love my life

Dont worry they dont kill each other because they dont have the knifes on but i thought it was cool

Week 38

Hey,

The next two weeks are going to be lame letters beacuse of calling on mothers day. SO prepare questions to ask and I will answer them all. 

This week was Marianne baptism. It went amazing! I had the opportunity of baptizing her and the spirit was so very strong. It is such an amazing feeling seeing some one make that choice in their life and come closer to God. Its a better feeling then anything else you can imagine.

 Welp that is the highlight of my week. We are absolutely slaughtering ourselves out here. Finished last week with 53 lessons and 12 investigators at church so that is dope.

I have lots of pictures to send as well!

 Love you all lots!

Elder gsack

Random kids that wanted to take pics with us so why not

 I have never wanted to steal something so bad...

Elder Ugalino eating a turnip... they are actually really good. 

The other pday we played volleyball and this picture is for all the rugby players. I cant be out there with you guys for playoffs but know i am still a barbarian at heart ;) 

BAPTISM!!!

Part member kids messing around 

filling the font for the baptism!