Week 82

Bumalik ko sa bisaya! Kada basin ko nabalhin mabago ang wika gihap!

Good evening everyone! I'm in my new area in Hinunangan, Leyte! I'm so excited to work as hard as we can and help God's children here find and follow God's plan again! As we know we all knew the plan before this life and chose to follow Christ by taking the difficult first step of coming to earth and leaving our loved ones and heavenly home. And going away from our heavenly parents to go on a mission to follow Him by keeping all the commandments He has given us, and bringing as many people as we can back to Him along with us! What a great responsibility and privilege we have to just know God's plan of happiness! I started to really contemplate prayer as well. And this talk has changed my perspective. By Elder Anderson, one of the Twelve Apostles!


The area here is beautiful and the people are really nice. We are going to go to the beach and try and find some good food to cook. My new companion is Elder Richeson and he is awesome! From Idaho falls. We'll see you all next week!

Now the district leader after being a zone leader for months--just one other companionship in the district. It takes an hour to get to the other companionship.  Not in a Stake, but a District.  And the District has only TWO branches! Live about a block from the beach. Live by 3 members--the Relief Society president and her husband (who is Scottish) live across the street. He drove Elder Robertson and Elder Ricehson around and then fed them lunch. 















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