This week has been a solid week of learning and trying to do my very best to help out my anak or my trainee.  He is a good missionary and is working hard to learn and get down the lessons and everything to say, also he is super hard working on language study for his English speaking skills!  He is so much ahead of what I was as a trainee, so it’s not hard at all train him, and we have a good time while we work so that’s always goodJ

This week we were able to experience some AMAZING miracles and also some downs, of course just like all weeks;)  So one of the things that happened was the Rosel Family.  So we were walking down the road one morning and a girl from across the street yells “Elders!” and waved us over to them.   So we went over there and she was like “I’m a Mormon” and I told this family all about Joseph Smith and they want to listen to your message, so we were pumped of course, and we taught them.  It was a super awesome lesson, where the Spirit was so strong, and they had questions and it really was just plain SOLID!!!  Then we extended a Baptismal Invitation, and they said “ya if we truly come to know that it is true then we will!”  So that was amazing, we left and I seriously felt overwhelming gratitude for being in the right place at the right time for this family.  And they were not able to come to church on Sunday, so hopefully next week!

We had 48 people at church on Sunday and one of them was our investigator, Sister Janice.  This is her 2^nd time to come to church and she is progressing SO WELL!!! I asked her where she was at in the Book of Mormon and she said “Somewhere around page 400 in Alma.” Haha I was completely shocked, and its amazing to see her progress like that!

Last Wednesday our whole Baler District went and worked in San Luis, because they were struggling a bit with investigators, so we had huge expectations for that day, to get a ton of new investigator, and help their area out.  So me and my companion went finding and we taught Tatay Jimmy, he can’t walk but he told us about how he used to be taught by the missionaries and would have gone to church, but he couldn’t walk there.  So we told him that the San Luis Elders would pick him up on Sunday and he was like “ya that’d be great!”  So they picked him up and he really went on Sunday…….. miracle…….

We did a CSP on Thursday to a part member family in our ward and we got to shovel a bunch of dirt to build up the foundation for their house.  It felt super good to do some dirty work just like the good ole construction days;)  Also I got pretty wet in the hot Philippines sun…

Last P-day we went and chilled at the beach house of a member with some other missionaries and ate pineapples… livin the life in Baler zoneJ 

Also I am trying to learn Ilocano… I have some members and investigators that are teaching me, so it’s super fun!  Its surprising to Filipinos when they hear an American speak Tagalog, but when an American speaks Ilocano they are super surprised, its hilarious;)

Thanks for all the emails and prayers!!!

LOVE YA’LL!!!

Elder Alldredge