So right now we are in Iloilo City which is a 4 hour bus ride from my area... Ya layot gid sia. It is very far haha but it's all good cause i was able to have a really awesome pday today and it still isn't over ;) First thing we did was go eat Mc Donalds cause that is what everyone wanted to eat cause we have nothing out in our area but it doesn't taste the same as in america... but it does the job for what we needed cause our area is in the middle of nowhere and very mountany but after that we got together with like 3 other Zones in the Mission and went and played a massive game of Ultimate frizby and wow have i missed playing that game.... But it was super crazy and fun so i mean what better way could you start off your Pday right??? ;) After that everyone started to show up out of nowhere and i ended meeting my batch so all the people from the Manila Mtc and what not was there and so they wanted to get a picture with me and the rest of us :) also i got to see my MTC companion again after 2 months of being in the mission and get to go stay at their house for Zone Conference tomorrow so i am super excited about that!!!! Also I got to see my Nanay again!!!! :) it was so funny when i saw her cause she got so freaking happy and just came up to me and was like "Anak I have missed you so much!!! i love you, i am so proud of you and make sure you are staying out of trouble" and then just started talking to me and all that and when she was about to go leave to go email she tells me Sige, makita kits! bless your Nanay! what that means is for the Nanay or Tatays here to be polite you take the hand and put it up to your forhead and they are blessed, Super funny to hear that from her though haha but this week has been good so far.

We finally got a ward mission leader and Elders quorme president in the ward and we had 11 Less Actives come to Church this week and We saved 1 of them :) i was so happy about that! but our Bishop has been doing some really amazing things with the ward already, This week he met with the less actives at Church and is making sure that home evening and home teaching is happening which is awesome and will help out so much in the ward! but we had a very good lesson after that with our less actives and they actually learned a ton from the lesson and from the talk that was showed from us by someone in the Quorm of the 70 but it was honestly one of the best lessons we have had with this family and i hope that it truly helps them and they start coming to Church again... But other than that there hasn't been a whole lot going down this week.. It has just been working with less actives in our ward and trying to help build the strength in the ward right now but it is going very well and i will let you all know more about it!!! 

I hope you all had a wonderful Sunday and have had a wonderful week :) I love you all so freaking much and miss you all!! Remember who you are. Have a good week this week and for you that are out of school now or graduated! I hope you all have a wonderful start of Summer!!!!! ;) i hope it is as hot there as it is here. hahaha ;) I love you all :) I miss you and have a good week and a wonderful start off into Summer!!! :)

Love,

Elder Merrill