Elder Kyle Alldredge

Magandang Araw!!!

So this week has just been plain AWESOME!!!

Life in Maria Aurora is so much fun and I love the work here!!! We had some really good successes this week, which is super encouraging for our work here, these people here are so willing to listen to us here!! This is why we had another stellar week in finding new investigators, we had 12 more new investigators!!! One family of 5 and some other referrals from a member in our ward. A few of them really want to be taught and baptized, but haven't really reached the point where they will actually act on that desire. So this is the goal for the week, to help them to ACT!!! Because if there is no action, there is no change. So we will work super hard to help them to keep their commitments and hopefully the next sunday we will have some more investigators at church!!

This week we also had a HUGE attendance at sacrament meeting, at 61!!!! BOO YAA:) It was super cool to see the seats almost all filled even before it starts!! Which is super rare in the Philippines, because most people run on Filipino time, which is supposedly super late always...;) But it was so cool to see so many people at church!! And we will keep doing our best to strengthen the ward!! We only had 1 investigator at church, but the next week we are hoping that number goes up too!! These members really were super happy on sunday and i know that helps the less actives because the members were super friendly, and everyone needs a friend!! Oh another thing, just Be that friend to everyone!! Especially the people you don't see at church too often, this is what we were trying to encourage the members to do on sunday, and it was really good!!

This week we also had a Branch Family Home Evening, which was super fun and we had 32 people there, so that really helps strengthen the branch members, having fun with each other, and also having spiritual things too, it was AWESOME!!! We also had dinner too, so perks there... more rice... always:)

Oh and we had interviews with President on Saturday. It went super well, and I really got some great advice from President Clark, he really is such an inspired man!!! Also President and Sister Clark took the Baler Zone out to lunch at a fancy restaurant:) hhahah there is quite a few perks to being assigned in Baler Zone:)

So earlier this morning the Baler Zone woke up early and we went to the Lighthouse at the Beach!!! It was seriously sobrang MAGANDA!!!! The view was amazing and everything in Baler is just absolutely gorgeous!! So we took a ton of pictures, and had fun with the Zone!! Don't worry I'll send you some pics;) Also we hiked to a cool waterfall near the beach, so that was SWEET too!!!

Well I hope ya'll had an amazing week!!! Thanks so much for your emails, it makes me so Happy:)

And if you forgot to smile this past week... then SMILE now!!! And all week:)

LOVE YA'LL!!!!

Elder Alldredge