Sunday, June 25, 2017

feeling super good with the language

NAY! 

its been a good week. so we had a zone conference and learned an interesting and new contacting method presented by the assistants. so before you say pretty much anything else you ask them a classic question of the soul or something like "do you know why they call us mormons?" then BOOM book of mormon, joseph smith, first vision, promised blessing, a sneaky question they can not say no to then grab their phone number and then teach them! 13 new investigators this week.. got me hyped! also, after a good night time convo with my special boy we realized we both haven't grown so much in our whole missions. lots of new things, trials and sunny days. also feeling super good with the language which gets me hyped to just talk and learn. getting all those childrens songs on lock.

other than that i want to mention a really special and challenging family that we have been working with. haven't mentioned them yet. anyway back like 3 months ago there 11ish yo boy fell on a piece of rebar sticking out of the ground and it pierced his hip and like broke/ infected his bone. he has not walked in months and i have never seen anyone so skinny in my life. this family lives in a house that is the same size as like my bedroom back home, and it's just one bamboo bed thing. the mom and dad have had 8 kids and some live down the road in another house to sleep. the dad never went to school and doesn't speak tagalog. the kid needs like a surgery that they can only afford like 5% of. but the goverments helping out a bit and i saw him after this surgery and he had a rod going through his knee and a water jug on a rope pulling that leg down. this family is amazing. in short the mom went to church twice in a row now. glad i met them. 

Elder Kearl

Monday, June 19, 2017

this is all he sent me...what????

NAY! not much time but i only want to say one quote:

"its going down for real" - NEO or something

1 year feels good. happiest boy in the south china sea and never want to go home!!

love,
Elder

Monday, June 12, 2017

one year mark

the Skype with the people i love

NAY! 

i got more time this week which i am hyped about! so here we go:

on a pressing topic the roomates and I want to start a new "6 weeks to sexy program" which will maximize our 6:30 - 7 exercise time for max sexy bod results. maybe we will even sttart running in the mornings! stay posted on results.

also this is the email i think i will celebrate my 1 year bc next year june 6th i will be on my way home. and as im getting close to the actual day i gotta say the view looks great! ive heard that once you hit one year your pretty much home bc time just cruises. 

but its been a good week and ive been reading dans mission book a bit more and got feeling pretty hard. thinking of past companions (especailly my trainer) and how much i do not want to leave or anything similar. its been a pretty special and very unexpected year. its been hard physically, socially, spiritually and the hardest one is mentally and emotionally. i actually cant express how i feel but im just content. no regrets. lots of good people ive ran into and lots of hard but good lessons learned. i could just see dad rolling his eyes at this so im gonna stop haha but idk its just been one heck of an experince! gratefull for every day! also its cool to think that a year ago i knew like 4 words in tagalog and now i dont have to think when i speak it or hear it. i love this language so much.

but on a diffrent note, the comp and i had an amazing week. really love being with Elder Uy. this fresh start feels good and we are trying our absoulte hardest to do things right, by the PMG or the Handbook. really striving for perfection no matter how much effort it takes. we have 4 new investigators from members and got more coming. this whole week we only taught an investigator with members. its been really really fun! 

not much more to say, but anything you wanna know? 

Elder Kearl



what eggs?

metlife

the comp

Monday, June 5, 2017

fast sunday is the hardest trial..walking around in the heat without water for 24 hours!


NAY,

not much to mention but imma just going to jump right into it.

so i got news that my first area is shutting down. Dupax del Sur where i spent 6 months serving is no longer going to have missionaries there for sometime. ever since missionaries had been assigned there its just never really progressed. neighbouring areas were getting baptisms every month while Del Sur got 1 in my 6 months. im not too suprised to be honest. it really is a tough area but i'm sad to think about my cherished members there. all like 15 of them :/ but life goes on. 

i also had a really hard day yesterday and realized its happened 11 other times on my mission and will happen 12 more times. fast sunday is easily the hardest trial of my life. walking around in the heat not having drinking water in 24 hours is tough! but you do it bc you love those you do it for. while i'm walking, i always painfully imagine myself swimming in a lake or drinking a can of cold doctor pepper. the blessing is a family fed us for dinner randonmly and it was amazing. cherish. 

other than that, the comp and I are reinventing the game! dropped like all our investigators and are ONLY working with the branch. refferals. part member families etc... super hyped! also just being more diligent with stuff for the zone which is good. certainly feels good! 

dad and dan are freaking champs!

if you are ever going to send a package i have a suggestion:  could you send me tortillas and also like tons of salsa. i know theres salsa you can get in cans and thats not a bad idea. no rush. love you!!

a quote i want to share:

"those whom God Desire to be the greatest, he seems to try the hardest" 

Elder Kearl