It's going to be a warm Christmas

Warm Weather

Everyone seems to be enjoying the cold! haha the forecast here this week: 90highs-70low. haha. i love warm weather. it hasn't rained yet. i am not sure whether the typhoon will hit our mission but if it does it will be a lot weaker than when it entered the phillipines. the bug hotel is actually alright it is becoming my favorite apartment. haha! it has just enough room, its easy to clean, water+elec. are cheep, and very quiet.

Sister Mildred

Sister Mildred is doing great! we are just finishing up teaching her the lessons. she is still so excited about learning the Gospel! she goes back to Kuwait in january! it is soo sad! she will be there for another 2 years before she can come back. we taught her about tything this week. she was worried about how she was going to pay her tything while she is in Kuwait. but her brother the elders Quorum president talked to her about it and she decided that she would just send it to him every month so he could pay it for her! MAN! We realized then how converted she really is! it has been a blessing to be able to teach and learn from her! she is so humble and obedient! yesterday after her interview she bore her testimony in sacrament meeting! i felt the spirit so strongly! as did many members who later said they felt prompted to bear their testimonies because of her! haha! I wish she could just stay in the Philippines! she would be such a spiritual strength to the branch here.

Turning Recent Converts Into Missionaries

other than sister Mildred we have just been focusing on our reacent converts. yesterday after church we started what we call PMG class. we invited all the member and reacent converts in our area to attend. the goal is to get them all PMGs and to help them become familiar with them and to prepare them to serve missions/ learn to share the gospel to everyone around them. it was a lot like a district meeting. Elder Hontanosas gave the training then we paired all of them up and they taught us+some RMs in our branch. haha it was great! reminded me of the MTC and our 5 min memorized lessons! haha! they did great though. haha we will have PMG class every sunday. next week i will give the training. it will mostly be  and Introduction on how to use the PMG. If you have any ideas or experiences please send them even if they get here a little late! haha!

Christmas Devotional and Random Facts

we get to see the Christmas Devo this sunday! i am excited. hopefull a lot of members go.

i love reading/listining to talks from the first presidency i have found as i have studied them that i learn so much and so much of it applies directly to me as a missionary.

random fact: in the philippines they have competitions to make the best Christmas trees. everyone uses random things,(bamboo,trash,metal,etc) they stand them all up in a park or on the sides of roads all december so people can look at them. we have seen some good ones i will try to get pictures.