We knew that Kyle would most likely be getting a new companion this week so while looking at the mission blog I found out that he is training this transfer.  It is fun to get any extra pictures of our missionary!

This past week has been SUPER exciting, and crazy, and a little disappointing, but hey it’ll be alrightJ 

So I’ll start off with the little disappointing part of the week to get it over withJ  So we were planning to have like 6 or 7 investigators at church right… And we were super pumped, doing everything that we could to find a way to help them go to church, and then on Saturday afternoon we got a call saying that church was in Baler because the whole Philippines had an Area Broadcast.  So of course because Baler is like a 100 peso trike ride, all but one of our investigators was not able to goL  But HEY its all good, because we KNOW FOR SURE that they will come to church this next week, and we are so excited to see them all at the church!!

Oh so the Philippines Area Broadcast, it was super cool and super spiritual!!  Elder Bednar was able to talk to us, and President Bowen, Shane S. Ardern, Lynn G. Robbins, and the Young womens President, I forgot her name sorry;)  So ya we had our own mini General Conference, it was super cool!! Elder Bednar is amazing and the spirit was so powerful when he spoke about the things we can do to become more strong in the church.  He told 3 things for us to work on:

First: FAITH in Jesus Christ-A couple things that he said that I really liked.  “Simply acting is not faith, but acting according to the gospel of Jesus Chris.t”  Another is that “Faith is not by chance, but by Choice” Also that the people with Joshua literally had to stand in the water to show their faith before the river parted.

Second: SACRIFICE-Be willing to give all for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Third: CONSECRATION-“We will not only be willing to die for the Gospel but also more importantly, willing to LIVE for the Gospel.”  Also he said “Living the Gospel and being obedient is not hard, but NOT living the Gospel and being obedient is hard.”  Also that making and keeping sacred covenants literally YOKES us to the Savior, we can’t be alone and we never will be if we continue to be faithful!!  So ya just a couple things he said that I really liked, I hope you like them too!

This week we also had a Zone Conference in Cabanatuan again!!!  So because we are the Zone in Baler we left on Tuesday afternoon to get to Cabanatuan by night time, to be ready for Zone Conference on Wednesday.  And it was an AMAZING zone conference!!! It was the Last Zone Conference of President and Sister Clark, so it was super sad!! But it was so spiritual and they truly are amazing people!! I know that President Clark is a BIG reason why I needed to be assigned here in the Philippines Angeles Mission!!!  He really has inspired me from my first day and will continue to inspire me until he leaves on July 2.  So we had a super solid conference with extra special testimonies given by President and Sister Clark, awesome stuff!!  Oh and I played the piano… againJ

So this week some super Crazy/Weird things happened!! 

1.I ate a DOG!!!! And I didn’t even know that it was a dog until later that day when a member had told me that it was dog, hahah I was madJ just cuz I really wanted a video or picture of me eating it…

2.I also ate a GOAT!!! Hahaha but this was by choice;)  It is called a Kambingan, and it is actually super good!

3.We had a District Activity this morning, early… And we went to the Lighthouse at the Beach, and watched the Sunrise!!!! Oh ya it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

4.One night we got caught in a heavy rainstorm, so we had to run all the way home;) hahah it was hilarious and we were drenched to the bone… yes mom we forgot our umbrellasJ

So its been a super solid week, and its good to be a missionaryJ

Thanks for all the emails!!!!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

Elder Alldredge