Merry Christmas From The Philippines Aug 29th 2016

Ya so September is literally just right around the corner.... Crazy that is already September.... almost one more week till my first birthday in the mission and away from home... weird.... but So here in the Philippines from the start of September through either December or January is called the Burr months.... So that means that they start celebrating Christmas in September.... This should be an interesting.... especially if you know me haha you will know why i say this should be interesting ;) 

so this week has been a fun and interesting week this week :) we                            

have been having meetings with our President this week but it has been super super helpful and absolutely amazing. We just had a meeting with him and we talked about how to help this mission and to open the flood gates to Heaven and having a constant flow of baptisms here in our mission and how we can find families big families cause that is the goal and new vision for the mission is to teach and baptize big families and have individuals our second priority and it's just really cool to see how things work... because we have been doing what we have been told by our mission president anay and have been able to see the works of the things he has told us to try in finding families... I wouldn't say they are progressing yet since we have only taught lesson one and about the Book of Mormon but next week i will let you know more about them :) and who is progressing but they are really big families and a lot of the people that we found are related to their neighbors pero normal na.... 

We have a mission tour this next week on my birthday with the Area 70!!!!! so that will be super fun! i don't know what to expect since this is my first mission tour and meeting the Area 70!!! but i will let you guys know how that goes as well!!!! :)

Also we had stake conference yesterday and that was super awesome i was able to learn a lot from it to be able to help work with members better and just a ton of things that i wrote down and will share as well next week kay naglipat ako sang notes ko.... pero next time i will share more about it and about our mission tour :) and it was really cool cause our mission president was there at our stake conference and talked as well so it was good cause we got to learn even more from him :) 

well that is all that i can think of from this week.... so until next time!!!! I love you guys and miss you :) I hope you had a wonderful Sunday and great day with the families :) Have a wonderful week! Remember who you are. Palangga ko kamo :)

Keep Smiling :)

Pagpalangga,

Elder Merrill