Elder Kyle Alldredge

This week has been a long week, but still a good week! We had no workers for 3 days in the afternoon so we couldn’t teach most all of our investigators and appointments, because they are mostly all sisters. So we walked and walked and walked and walkedJ One time we walked out way in the bukid to the Gagar family which was maybe 3 miles each way!!! But we ended up not being able to teach anyways, because again we didn’t have priesthood so we couldn’t teach just sisters… But walking through the trees, dirt paths, and bukid was sobrang maganda!! Meaning everything was beautiful! This was more of the Philippines that I expected when I opened up my call, not really what LaPaz looks like. The wooden bamboo houses in the trees and everything like that, so it was super cool to see that, finally!!!

Our investigators are progressing so well and we had 6 of them at church!!!!! Oh my you have no idea how happy we were to see them all at church!! So Ronald and Romel are still doing so good, and they are now just preparing for baptism. They both told me they are so excited to become a member and to be baptized. They love all the friends that the church has provided, which is like the best thing ever!! Everyone needs a friend in the church to stay strong, and they have about 10-15 YSA’s to help them out!!

Also Mary Joyce and Mary Fey the twins are doing awesome as well! They came to church again and are reading and praying every day. We watched the First Vision 15 minute version with them in Tagalog, that was a cool experience. But the Tagalog version just doesn’t compare to English, even the Filipinos admit it is not as good as it is in English. That was on their birthday, so they fed us also!!! They had some rice cake thing with a whole lot of pansit. So Elder Lastierre kept telling them oh, pansit is Elder Alldredge’s favorite thing ever!!! Pansit is like small noodles mixed with vegetables, and it is pretty good but for sure not my favorite. But because my kasama said it was I had to show them I liked it so I just kept eating… And eating… I ended after my 5^th plate and they thought it was pretty hilarious that I liked it so much. So I guess I did my part in making them feel good about their cooking;)

We also have two new solid investigators this week. One of them is Revson Gomez, and we found him OYMing(Open Your Mouth)and he has already been taught all the lessons but for some reason he didn’t get baptized. So he already knows basically everything that we teach him! It’s the best!!! Also Bernie, one of the YSA’s that work with us a lot gave us a referral which was his cousin. And she is so good, so willing to listen and learn so hopefully she keeps up the good work!!

I am doing ok on the language even though there are no big improvements that I can see, it is ok because I know it will come!!!

Well thanks for all the emails!! Have a great HAPPY WEEK!!!

LOVE Y’ALL!!!

Elder Alldredge