Transfer Week :-|

This week was pretty dang sick.  It was transfer week again so of course we had a hard time saying bye to some great Elders and Sisters :(  But in return we had a really solid looking group of missionaries come in to replace them.  Our mission had the privilege to hear from Elder Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles over at the Manila MTC.  It was an incredible experience and he gave us the spiritual boost that we all needed.  He talked a lot about how we can gain a stronger testimony of the gospel in the hardest of times.  The process that he mentioned was learning more about the Savior Jesus Christ.  The more we learn about Christ and His ministry,  the more we will grow the desire to follow His example and become more like Him.  It made me see the correlation that our testimonies have to our understanding about a certain topic.  We can't have a strong testimony of something that we don't have a clear understanding of.  Therefore as missionaries our teaching should be as simple as possible.  Freak this week was so fun, I'll explain it with some pictures:

Departing missionary night:  We had some pretty upper decent missionaries leave the mission... okay they were great.  

Transfer Day: 

Our car got a flat tire because Elder Mitchell refuses to work out.  As you can see I took it upon myself to fulfill the most important responsibility of constantly identifying the problem as they changed the flat tire.

"Let's call some taxis while waiting for them to fix the flat tire"

CEREAL BREAK ON TRANSFER DAY

This was on Friday at Elder Rasband's visit to the MTC.  

My companion, Elder Cornelius, went home today due to some physical issues he's been experiencing so President Fermanis had us over for dinner last night as a farewell.

Well that's it for this week!  I love you guys thanks for the sick emails!  I always appreciate the love and support!  Have an awesome week. 

-The Men of Makati

Area Blitz #1

Hey how's it hangin' fam.  This transfer is about to be really crazy.  We spent a lot of this week planning for transfers and it's been super stressful.  President is planning on putting the focus of the mission on our island, Palawan.  This is going to be a good change and i'm excited to see the outcome of it.  Hopefully everybody had a good Valentines day and Chinese New Year!

1-  Sister Gabriel goes home this Wednesday during transfer week, she's super makulit but we'll miss here tons.

2 & 3 - Our district is beginning to try a weekly area blitz in which all of the missionaries in our district work in one area for a couple of hours and we find as many investigators as we can.  We worked in our area and as a district we were able to find 20 investigators in 2.5 hours!  

4 & 5 - Our ward had a family home evening in celebration of Elder Smith (a return missionary from the Manila Mission) coming to visit us.

My new camera came in!! (Thanks mom and dad)  So hopefully I won't have to borrow this one and I'll have more pictures to send here in the future.

Shoutout to my awesome family for hooking me up with the food!  Love you guys.  Also I'll be staying in the office for this transfer :-|  Just keep holding on and trusting in the Lord hahaha.  

We Have an Apartment

Not much time today to fill you in on what has happened this week and also my camera is broken and we're working on getting a replacement soon. :(  Pasensiya na sa kayong limang nagbabasa nito hahaha joke lang.  

-Our investigator, Kian, got baptized last Saturday (picture coming soon)

-We found our new apartment FINALLY and we love it tons.  It's really close to the mission office.  It's big and has air conditioning!  Hot water remains non-existent here but I still love the new apartment.  

-We ate unlimited pizza at Yellow Cab and I feel like a bowling ball.

-My companion accidentally left pizza in the office microwave for too long setting all of the smoke alarms off.  The pizza burned through the plate it was on haha...

Over the past few months our mission President has made it a mission rule to read at least 10 pages of the Book of Mormon every single day.  At first I thought it would be difficult considering I have the reading ability of a 5 year old but I can't explain to you the blessings that I've seen come from it.  God loves it when we sacrifice our time and effort to ponder His word and apply the teachings into our lives.  I can testify that reading the Book of Mormon every day, even just a little, will bring blessings and just like the prophet Russell M. Nelson said, we will be able to overcome the temptations and dangers that surround us in this modern day generation.  The feeling coming from reading the Book of Mormon and feeling like God Himself is talking directly to you and guiding you through your life is indescribable.  Don't believe me, try it out for yourself.

Love you have a great week, remember to ask your parents before going online.

Elder Burdeos

The Best Things in Life Come in 3

First off, huge thank you to the Eagles for putting Tom Brady in his place.  You've done your country well.  

So for the third time on my mission I'm in a companionship of three!  My new companion, Elder Cornelius, is from Fresno California and he's awesome.  He got an injured while serving on Coron so for the meantime we are taking care of him in the office.  It's been difficult because we've had to arrange exchanges a couple times because he can't walk very far.  He's awesome though and very knowledgeable which makes for some sweet deep conversations every day.  Truly not much happened this week other than MLC on Thursday.  One of our investigators is getting baptized on Saturday so be on the lookout.  

1) We all hid in President Fermanis's office because there were tons of people coming in and out of the office asking us for favors during our personal study :)

2-4) We found a way to the very top of our apartment building which was 42 floors up.  It had a beautiful view of the whole mission.

5- It was a nice view but Elder Reber is still a nicer view.

6) The missionary to the very right is Elder Cornelius our new companion.  Such a cool guy.

Love you guys thanks for all of your love and support I'll catch you next week.