Walang Transfers... Patay (Week 25)

Hello,

This week was transfers. And........ No one is transferring. In our district everyone is staying. So unless something goes wrong we will all be here until March 15. 

This week has been pretty good. Not a lot going on. We are really struggling to find new investigators. So the last while has been all about finding and trying new things to find more people. One of our mission goals this year is develop the faith to baptize weekly. And of course in order to do that you have to be constantly finding new investigators. So elder Cristoria are focusing on part members. Instead of going door to door we go to less active and in active members and find part member families that way. We are able to re active people while finding new investigators. When we leave the apartment every morning in our prayer we include "Heavenly father we know you have prepared people to hear the gospel. But we do not know who they are, please place someone in our path today that you have prepared to hear the gospel." and day after day it is amazing how He answers our prayers. I truly know that Heavenly Father will answer our prayers, He is just waiting for you to talk to him! 

This next transfer should be a good one hopefully. This is my fourth transger living with Elder Laguerta so it is a grand ol time. Love and miss you all lots!

Love

Elder gsack

Dinner at Rickys... I love this man

In case you thought i was only in the city, part of our area is legit all rice fields

So we are teaching a decent amount of grandmas.... and they all came to church :)

In case you thought i was only in the city, part of our area is legit all rice fields

Week 24

Hey hey hey

Ive been realizing that my emails arent really spiritual they are more of fun things i do or see so i am going to try to be better about writing more on the spiritual side. 

so this week has been pretty good. Transfers are a week from today and I think i am going to be transferred so i dont know what time next week i will email or where ill be next week. 

Our newest investigators name is Pearly. She is 15 and is really cool. She came to church for 4 weeks straight without us realizing. She lives right next to a member and had been coming to church with them. Here in the philippines they dont really have streets so its kinda rough trying to find houses but after 4 days of trying we finally found her house! We were able to teach her about the restoration and it was a super good lesson. The spirit was very strong and you could see everything was just kind of clicking for her. She was understanding everything and when she had questions we were able to answer them perfectly for her. At the end of the lesson we were feeling good so we extended for baptism! She accepted for February 24th! so we will continue working with her!

On another note we got an email from President saying that Elder Rasband is going to come at the end of February to our mission. He wants to visit and see how things are going so that is super exciting! Elder Anderson came the transfer before i came in to our mission and now elder rasband is coming! woohoo!

Love you all lots and miss you lots! 

dead cat... this picture is for madden

made myself a birthday cake and it was actually really good

These dogs fight every morning and it is so nuts. we always see them bleeding and have huge bite marks on their face

BDay Week (Week 23)

Hello friends, 

How is everyone doing? This week was pretty good. Not much going on and nothing really exciting but it was good. 

This week i have one story but it is a good one and then i have lots of pictures. So tuesday I woke up and sang happy birthday to myself and thought i wanted to treat myself in some way. Well if i had money i would buy a big breakfast or something but we are poor so i had to be creative. So right before i got in the bathroom to take my freezing cold bucket shower revelation hit me... "Elder Sackley.... boil water." Wow. So i went into the kitchen and found our biggest pot and filled it with water. Set it on the stove and turned the stove on to high. And not to long after i was taking my first warm shower in almost 5 months. May i tell you how amazing it was? I never know how amazing warm showers were until i went 5 months without them. Needless to say every morning now i boil water and take warm showers. It is truly life saving. 

Hope you are all enjoying cold weather because i am too. It is constantly 25 degrees in the morning and I wake up teeth chattering so woohoo. 

Love you all

Elder gsack

American Brownies. Enough said.

This is Fredrick. He flew into my window and killed himself so we had a funeral for him later that night.


My good friend Ben came to visit me here in the Philippines ;)


Glad to see I brought part of the 503 to the philippines






The monsons got a dog so i thought we would get one too.


BDAY lunch... dab

Welp (Week 22)

My week in one sentence:

Our goal this week was 4 baptisms and 4 confirmations, we had 3 baptisms and 0 confirmations. 

So this week was rough but lots of good experiences. The mother and two daughters of the rebojo family got baptized and the father will be baptized in the coming weeks. Then the 3 will be confirmed in church this week hopefully. 

but on a more happy note here are some good experiences from the week:

1. We were waiting for a ward missionary at the basketball court and were watching the kids playing and i realized one of them wasnt talking at all. and I thought it was kind of odd and then something caught my attention. He started signing to another boy on the sidelines so i went other to his friend and talked to him and he said his friend was deaf and he was the only other person that knew sign language. Well luckily elder sackley took it for 2 years and some how still remembers some. So i signed with the deaf kid a little bit and all though it was ugly i was able to get my point across and give him a pamphlet. He was so happy and told us he was going to read it so that was awesome. 

2. Second we had a refferal about a month ago. Her name was Jane and she was super receptive. The first lesson she cried and was very interested in the gospel. Well the next day we got a text saying she didnt want to meet with us anymore. So that was really disappointing but i have always thought she truly felt something so I have continually prayed for her the last couple of weeks that she would accept another lesson. Well prayers are answered. This afternoon we got a text from a member saying Jane has been reading the Book of Mormon all this time and wants to hear another lesson so we have an appointment with her Saturday Night! Woohoo! 

hope you are all doing well! love you lots

love,

elder gsack

Got a new phone this week, Its quite fancy ;)

Service Project! Please note how clean elder laguertas hands are (He did nothing)

District

Roommates

District

Shout out to the Newtons, Kidmans, Pertabs, Johnsons, Brockbanks, Mowers, Brockbanks for the Christmas Cards! and extra shout out to the Oneil Family, I do not know you but the card was much appreciated

Week 21

What is up my people, How are all of you doing? I miss you all lots. this letter has 3 parts to it, the new year, Rebojo family and Thomas S Monson. 

1. The New Year. More like the old year. As a tribute to 2017 i made a top 9 of the year. i couldnt think of a 10th lol. 

         1. Winning Rugby State Championship

         2. Graduating High School. All of my family can testify i didnt think i was going to make it lol

         3. Going through the temple and receiving the Preisthood

         4. Receiving my mission call and starting my mission

         5. Discovering Clash Royale

         6. Working at Chemdry and more specifically driving those huge vans

         7. Going to Hawaii for family vacation

         8. Going to Bend for the day and going to my very first Concert

         9. Finding, Teaching, Converting and baptizing someone

2. The Rebojo family is getting baptized this Saturday! All of them passed their interviews with flying colors so they are all getting baptized! We are so very exciting and they are truly the perfect golden family of investigators. So Happy. 

3. Yesterday we got a text saying President Thomas S Monson passed away. It was a very sad moment but after thinking about it for a while it made me happy. I like to see death as someone "graduating" life. I see it as an accomplishment. And my goodness I gurantee they had a huge welcome party for him. Its so comforting having knowledge of the Plan of Salvation and knowing he may be gone phsically but their will come a time where we will all be together again. However I will surely miss him. 

Lastly love you all, Hope you have an amazing year of 2018!

Love

 Elder gsack

You cant get a much sadder text then this

This place is called Black Apartment. It is such good food and we were on splits yesterday and so we went there. That is Elder Kerr. He is our district leader and is from Mesa Arizona

Cock fights on the side of the road lol

NYE here is absolutely nuts. Everyone goes insane and just drives their motorcylces around honking the horn and so many fireworks my goodness

Roommate pic for the day

Merry Christmas! (Week 20)

Due to Garrett's Christmas Skype call he did not feel like writing this week... but he is doing really great. They have a family getting baptized at the start of January and they are getting very excited for it. He is loving the Philippines and would love to hear from all of you!


This is the pig we had christmas morning! it was quite delicious. I ate the nose, ears and tail :)


We are completely out of money and a member gave us stuff to make spaghetti... we made a little too much and now we eat spaghetti for breakfast lunch and dinner





Classic Elder GSack

Weekly Christmas (Week 19)

Hello!

This week has been madness. Saturday I absolutely fried my hand deep frying oreos and i have 3rd degree burns all over my right hand. and I have lost all feeling on the backside of my right thumb because of it. but its all good because the oreos were delicious. Then Monday was transfers and i got a new companion. His name is Elder Cristoria. He is philippino. So now my house is 3 philippinos and then me. And all three of them barely know english so it is quite hard to communicate but its all good. 

Day 25: Jesus is the Light of the World, but every person can shine his or her own light into the world. Follow Christ’s example and be a light in the lives of those around you this Christmas season and all year long.

So often we teach investigators, Recent converts, less actives and truly any member about enduring to the end. how the first 4 steps of the gospel (faith, repentance, baptism and holy ghost) are completely pointless if you do not endure to the end. Why would you go so far only to quit. This 25 days 25 ways thing the church puts on is very great. Its an amazing way to share the gospel, become closer the family members and simply become a better person. but the key is you continue it throughout the year. We arent meant to be good people one month of the year and then go back to not caring. So this christmas season and upcoming year of 2018 I challenge you all to find random acts of service daily. Help someone pick up there things, pay for the person behind you in the drive through or just simply smile at someone. Dont go so far only to quit and go back to your old ways. Continue to strive to be a better person and I promise Heavenly Father will bless you individual and all those around you. 

I love you all lots and wish you all a very merry christmas and happy new year!

Mahal Ko kayo at maligayang pasko at masayang bagong taon! 

Elder gsack






then this is in downtown imus we went and took pics for fun


Elder Cristoria!


A member gave me kraft mac and cheese and i almost cried of happiness




This is my hand. and that is from last night so its healed quite a bit from saturday. but i have no feeling in my thumb


Jacob Martin and all you Clash Royale players this is for you... Aloha Snackbar


one investigators little boy. he is 3. that is a pimple. We are going to help them pop it tomorrow...