OCTOBER!!!!!! Oct 2nd 2016

Hello Family!!! so fall is here and these are the months of Holidays!!! even though here in the Philippines they celebrate Halloween on Nov 1st and don't have thanksgiving and start Christmas in Sept. i'ts ok cause the actual months of holidays are here now!!!!! I am very jealous of you guys cause you guys get to have different seasons and get to have fall!!!!!! cause out here the weather never changes but that is nothing new haha i have told you guys about that many times before!!!! but i hope that you guys are excited for the Holidays and i hope that you all had a wonderful Sunday and had a AWESOME TIME watching General Conference!!!! don't spoil anything cause we have to wait till next week to watch it.... A little bummed out but it will be good i am super super excited for it!!!! 

This week has been a good week but has been a bit stressful as well ( go figure right??) who would have thought that Missionary work would be stressful or hard? but no so we have been teaching some former investigators lately and seriously if i haven't heard a conversion story in my mission yet i have now. So this one family we are teaching it is a girl who is 23 who has a son he is super adorable and ill send pictures next week but it is her and her mom and when we were teaching them i decided to go over BIQ's with them and when i asked the daughter about them she had an answer for every question and about ever since she has been taught things have been making more sense to her cause she is a single mother and what not but just as i was going over the questions with her i could just see the light of Christ in her and that she really really has experienced Repentance and just so much more but it was just one of the best feelings to have to be able to do that cause i have never really done BIQ's with anyone and since i am the District Leader i decided to do them just to follow up with her and her mom and see how i feel about them before i talk to the Zone Leaders to do the Interview but it was just such an amazing experience and i was so glad that i got to experience that because hearing her story and everything just really help strengthen me to know that this Church Ang Simbahan ni JesuCrist sang mga Santos sa Ulihing mga Adlaw nga sini nga simbahan matuod sia kag pwede kita manging matinlo liwat paagi sa paghinusol kag ang pag bayad sala ni JesuCristo kag nga kon naghinusol kita talaga nga mabatyagan kita pinaka maayo kag pinaka nami sa aton kabuhi kag balan naton nga gabantay ang Dios sa aton kag sa aton mga panimalay kag palangga ko nga ari ko diri sa Philippines kag gapaambit ako sang mensahe namon sa mga tawo diri sa Miagao biscan kon kisa budlay gid sia kabalo ako nga mahirap ang missionary work pero it's so freaking worth it kag indi ko magpangayo para sa mas manami nga lugar other than to be diri kag gaserve ang Dios kag mapaambit ini nga mensahe sa mga tawo kag sa inyo kag matunan mas parte sa aton ebanghelyo kag kabablo ako nga palangga kita sang Dios kag gahulat sia para sa aton kag paagi sa aton pagtuo kag salig sa iya kaya naton biscan ano. kag palangga ko kamo kag nahidlaw ko sa inyo kag sa tuod lang subong may ara kami damo mga pagtilaw subong pero nagrealize kami nga may ara reason agud ngaa... pero indi ko magsugid sia sa inyo tungod basi boring sia sa inyo pero waay ko kabalo kag balan ko guro subong waay kamo kaintyende sini haha :) tani pwede kamo mag translate sini pero kon indi ok na! kag i hope nga you all had a wonderful week and a good Sunday with the family and hearing or watching Conference and were able to learn a lot from it and i can't wait to hear from you guys again and i love you all and ya, Remember who you are.

Keep Smiling :)

Pagpalangga,

Elder Merrill