Elder Kyle Alldredge

Magandang Araw Po!!!

This week was another crazy week in the Philippines! First off, right after I finished emailing last week, we were waiting for a Jeepnee to pick us up and take us home, but there were absolutely no Jeepnee's going through at that time, so we were standing on the side of the road, in the rain for 1 1/2 hours!! Finally we decided to call the Office Elders to come rescue us and luckily they were fairly close so they came and picked us up. So you know how I said the road road overflowed and there was a lot of water. Well that was nothing! On our way back through the water was probably 2 feet deep in certain places and it was literally a river going straight across the road!! They had to open up the dam because there is so much water so all the water goes straight to LaPaz:) We thought we were going to float away, seriously that was pretty scary! But we finally made it through and decided that we should not sleep at our house just in case it floods, so we slept in Tarlac at the AP's house.

After another night back home the next wave of the Typhoon was going to hit, so we were evacuated out of LaPaz for safety precautions, again... But this time it was for 2 days!! So we slept at the Zone Leaders house. I went on splits one day with the Zone Leaders and one day with the AP's. And apparently I am the first trainee to go on splits with the AP's in our mission so that's also super cool! So after the two days we got to come back to LaPaz to still find a flood. LaPaz is literally the worst flooding city in our mission, which is crazy cuz there are some pretty bad ones. Also even up till now there is still a flood on the far side of the road, so we can't teach 2 of our investigators. So as you can tell we haven't had much time to work in LaPaz so this week we are really trying to push to get back on track!

This week Ronald and Romel came to church, and they said they really enjoyed it and would for sure be coming back again next Sunday!! It helps to also have really good young single adults that are their close friends as well. Also this morning we played basketball at the church with the Zaragoza Elder's and a bunch of the YSA's. It was super fun, even though we were all drenched with sweat at 6:30 in the morning;) There is the Philippines for ya...;)

We also taught a lady in only candle light this past week. It was seriously the coolest/weirdest thing ever! I couldn't even read the verse out of my Aklat ni Mormon because it was so dark. We sat in a circle around the candle, it was pretty legit! One of the ladies we taught this week recorded our lesson on her phone, secretly she thought. She was very hard to teach because she had lots of comebacks and questions. But I hope she shows her pastor that recording because I know that all of what we said about the gospel is true, and it always will be! We also saw two guys handcuffed get taken to the police station, so that was interesting:)

Transfer day is this week! Nothing will most likely happen to me, but our zone will change a lot because there is quite a few departing missionaries. My first transfer in the field is basically over... Halfway done with training!! BOO YAA!!!

Well have a great week!! Thanks for all the letters! Don't forget to smile this week:):):)

LOVE, Elder Alldredge