Sunday, September 22, 2013

Week #28 - The Lord shows unto us our weaknesses to be blessed..... Transferred to the office to do finance!


Elder Morales letter below is all in tagalog and we apologize that we can't translate it all or at all! Lol! But fortunately, in miraculous way, the Lord also blessed us with understanding of the language. He is transferred and mentioned in his last email how he was not looking forward to the office especially doing what he's terrible at..finance but he does know its a blessing in disguise. Good luck reading.
Hello!!

Ito ang first day ko sa office. Walang p-day para sa amin kasi kailangan namin na gawin ang mga errand para kay President Barrientos. Ang bagong kasama ko ay si Elder Wood. Napansin ko... kung ang e-mail ko ay sa Tagalog... paano makakaunawa ang tagapagbasa ng mga sulat ko? Siguro, kailangan nyo na isalin ang sulat ko. hehe. Itong linggo, pupunta kami sa Vigan. Sobrang excited ko. Mag-pipicture ako diyan. Siempre si mommy, gusto niya na makita ang mga picture.
Ang darating linggo, may baguio. Kaya, walang trabaho sa sabado kasi sobrang lakas ang ulan at hangin. Hindi kaya magtrabaho. Kumakain kami sa lahat ng araw. Ang mga baguio ay hindi talagang scary. Kaya, don't worry. Kung may signal 2, huwag na magtrabaho daw. Pero, last week, gusto namin na magkaroon ng pagbibinyag sa dagat. Pero, yung baguio ay ang dahilan na walang baptism sa dagat. Sayang! Gusto ko talaga! Kasi walang dagat dito sa Laoag. Pero kung puwede, siempre, susubukan namin. Pero may isang pagbibinyag kahit may baguio. Exciting naman! Si Alexandra Litao ay nabinyagan. At pagkatapos ny pagbibinyag, kailangan ko na pumunta sa Laoag!

Sinabi ni Elder Wood, mahirap na mabinyagan dito sa Laoag kasi parte ng area namin ay magiging sisters' area. At ang area nila ay sa centro! Ayos lang. We'll survive. Pero, ito ibig-sabihin na kailangan namin na mag-find palagi. Sana, hindi ako maghahanap para sa 9 months... Oo.. magiging bale 9 months dito sa office. Matagal talaga! Pero magiging masayan pa rin. Si President Barrientos ay nandito siya palagi. Kaya, I'll be with him palagi. Ginagawa nila ang mga activity sa p-day kasama ni President daw. At minsan, o palagi, (hindi ko alam talaga) nagpapakain sila sa amin. Suwerte naman! Blessings ng mga office elder! So ang mga bagong office Elders ay sina Elders Pincock at Bulseco!

Hmm... wala talagang interesting last week except yung baguio. Magiging interesting this week dahil ng transfers. Ang daming misyonero itong transfer na papasok dito sa Laoag! Bale 25!

Paki-sabi kay Jordan at Alex na mag-email sa akin! At ano ang balita sa tahanan? Anyways, good luck sa pagbabasa ng sulat ko. Ingat kayo lagi at mahal na mahal ko kayo!

Elder Morales

Monday, September 9, 2013

Week #27: -First time writing to his Dad and this is his email! LOL!



Hi daddy,
Can you please put some money in my account? I'm going to Laoag on monday to go check for contact lenses. Apparently it's cheaper here daw so I don't know how much it will be yet. Thanks dad! Love you.

Elder Morales

some random photos on P-day



Monday, September 2, 2013

Week #26 - We're ALL Sick so I'm trying to fatten up a little!!!

Hello all,

So this past week, we all got lagnat this time. It was raining and raining all week. Most of our zone got sick. So it wasn't pretty fun. On thursday, we had interviews too. Elder Oden drove the car into a ditch so we had to find ways to get it out. I got to drive President Barrientos car to back it up. Now that was pretty cool. It was weird stepping into the driver's seat and turning on a car. Other than that, I'm 100% going to the office now. President kept telling me things about who's going where and I know that Elder Bulseco is going to the office too this upcoming transfer but he doesn't know that I know.

 hi from e larson 

Anyways, I'm right now in Laoag shopping for random stuff. I had to buy a nice big strong umbrella. And when I say big... I mean BIG!!! I'm tired of getting wet. I'm tired of getting sick. It's not fun being on medication a whole day. But we're all okay now. Anyways, we did a deep cleaning of our apartment today because.. it just needs to be cleaned, especially since everyone was sick.

As for the work in Bangui, it's slowing down unfortunately, but new investigators are turning up. We have two baptisms coming up on September 14. That should be fun, especially since we have a Branch FHE that night. This branch is really progressing now. It's really impressive. While we were in McDonald's today, we ran into other missionaries and they said that by next transfer, 30 new missionaries are coming in, so that puts us over 200 missionaries in the Laoag mission! Where do we put them!? Apparently President Barrientos is starting to put 3 pairs of missionaries in each area!




I'm just trying to think of all the interesting things that happened this week but there's really nothing. I just have 4 weeks left in Bangui. I'm looking forward to going to Laoag but at the same time I don't want to leave Bangui. Office work is extremely demanding. I'm going to be in finance and the funny thing is, I was never good with money. We'll see what happens. It's going to be fun going to church with President Barrientos.

So how is everyone doing? I miss having filipino breakfasts. We did have one for dinner last night. Rice, eggs, and longganisa. The longganisa here is different. It's nice sweet. It's garlic flavoured. I've actually seen them make it. Oh and mom, I had lanzones. It just tastes really bad when you eat the seed by accident. So that's what's up here. Agannadkayo! Ay-ayatenkayo!
trying to eat well to get better!

Elder Morales