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Hey Ya'll,

So this week we had our transfer, there weren't any new pilipino elders so me and my buddies lucked out and we wont train this cycle! My new comps name is Elder Magsanoc his english aint that good so it will really help me to learn the language. He goes home in may so he is kind of trunky, but he still works hard so that is good  :) haha I am having a hard time remembering what else happened this past week, I should start writing things down.

Oh I tried balut for the first time! It didnt taste weird at all, it was actually pretty good.  But if you are going to try it I recommend eating it in the dark because it looks like death. haha I also tried this fruit called star apple, it was really tasty and fun to eat!

Another funny/cool thing that happened, was last night we were at the Apocoliptic family's house for dinner and I got to talk about motorcycles with the dad and that was really awesome.  He then told us about how he was a fireman and how ghetto the filipino fireman equipment is.  Then he started telling us about his mission and he said that I looked like a companion of his, so he pulls out his photo album and shows me an elder with a face that only a mother could love.  haha It made me feel really good looking! haha They are an awesome family. I love the work here, I love the people. I just dont like typing a whole lot. haha

I am out of things to write about so I am going to try and catch up on pictures.

1. This is D, M's daughter chowing down on some chicken. I just love this picture.

2. This is C, R, and As baptism. They are all so awesome, its so cool to see the gospel bless peoples lives

3. This is H and M's baptism, they are also really cool and they have made that mighty change of heart

4. This is us playing rugby! fun stuff

I love all of you, I love this gospel, I love studying it and learning more and more from the scriptures its just great. I love missionary life. haha Its weird to think that Martha is already counting down the months. Trunky ka ba?  just kidding. I wish that I could just film everything that I am experiencing here, but i guess you will just have to wait till heaven and you can watch my mission movie :)

I love all of you so much, and I am so grateful for our wonderful family and all of your wonderful examples to me.

Elder Proctor

PS Its really fun to play basketball with filipinos haha

2-19-2012

Hello Everybody!

So this week has been really good,  M and H were baptized. I will be sending pictures later I am in the same computer shop that deleted all my pictures so I don't want to make the same mistake twice! 

Sounds like you are all having fun, Mom and her sisters talking till dawn and Laura and the Jones clan getting ready to head out to Disneyland. Since dad didn't write me this week I am assuming that there is something really good on the History Channel so that's just great! haha

 

I might have another niece by next week eh? Its weird for me to think that there will be members of our family that I haven't met yet! But its awesome.

 

Speaking of weird things, I don't know what is happening to me! I am from Utah, I used to run barefoot through the snow and everywhere else, and yet there are times when I get cold here! I am in the hottest place in the whole Philippines and I am getting cold! haha I think I might die when I come back to Utah, but hopefully I will adjust when I get back there. haha 

 

Oh yeah this week its transfer week and there is a good chance that I will train so that should be... exciting. haha But I know that whatever comes that I wont be doing it alone :) Transfer meetings are fun, I will get to see all my old mtc buddies and its just great. 

 

I don't know what else there is to tell you, other then we are working hard and I really am loving every step of the way! I love all of you so much and I am so grateful for your support and love, I am sorry that I don't get to write all of you all of the time, but know that I love you no matter what :) 

 

Love,
Elder Proctor

2-14-12

So I am okay!

I didn’t even hear about that earthquake and the reason I didn’t email yesterday was because my comp was sick so we stayed inside all day.   I got cabin fever, haha but other than that I am fine.

The work is going great here.  I am loving every minute of it and that’s about all I have to say... just kidding.   So I want to tell all of you about this awesome investigator of ours, her name is Mellakamekemaka (names have been changed for blog content) and she is about as golden as any investigator could ever be.  She keeps all the commitments and reading assignments and comes to church every Sunday and all that other good stuff.   The only problem that we have had with her is that she is not legally married to her husband, and for the longest time we told her that she needed to be legally married before she could be baptized. And she would talk to her husband and he would say "What’s the rush?" as their 4 YEAR OLD daughter is running around.  That continued for a while, but this week after much praying and fasting he opened up and they are getting married on the 17th and Mellakamekemaka is being baptized on the 18^th. haha "What’s the rush?” haha When we heard the news that she was getting married I ran outside and shouted for joy! haha. It was awesome, I love mission life.

Another cool story, so Sister Yoyoma who was just recently baptized, we have been trying to teach her son, but he didn’t really want to.  Then a week or two passed and the kid busted his arm! and had to get stainless steel rods in his arm.  Just before the surgery he asked his mom how we pray, because he has seen the blessing that have come to his mom through her prays. Then after the surgery, which was at 3:00pm, he didn’t wake up from the anesthesia! As the hours past his mom texted us asking for us to pray with her and so we did.  Then at 10:00pm she texted us and told us that he woke up and everything was okay! haha And now he wants us to teach him! haha The Lord sure does work in mysterious ways! haha 

This work is true and I love it so much.  I want to share a quick thought I had this week to all y’all about the Book of Mormon.  I was thinking about Moroni as the  last Nephite running from the Lamanites so he could hide and protect the record.  Then I thought about Joseph Smith and all the times that the mobs tried to steal the Gold Plates or destroy the translations. I thought to myself "Man, Satan really didn’t want this book to get out."  He tried so hard because with the Book of Mormon we can know exactly how we can return to our Heavenly Father.   Of course we know he failed back then and now millions of copies of the Book of Mormon are all over the world in different languages. But Satan hasn't given up, he has simply changed his tactics by making people think that they don’t have the time to read it.  And by making people think that they are too busy, by making people think "tomorrow I will start reading that." 

I testify that the Book of Mormon is true and we should all read and study it every day!  There are so many things that we can learn from this wonderful book. Don’t let Satan win, read the Book of Mormon! haha Put that on a t-shirt! haha 

I love you all and I thank you all again for your support and love.

Love,

Elder Proctor  

2-6-12

Hello one and all!

So Heber was baptized! That is so exciting.  We actually had 3 of our investigators get baptized also on February 4th! Must be a good day for making the right decisions.  haha Way to go Heber and way to go Brian and Michelle for bringing him up right :)

So this week was great yet again, we had our first community service project. We fertilized a corn field... by hand haha it was great! I spent the whole day walking in a squatting position, up and down the rows of corn. Needless to say my glutes and thighs were howling by the end of the day! But it was worth it to see the face of the member that owned the field after we had helped him. After we were done they cooked some corn on the cob for us. haha Talk about the fruits of our labors. The whole time I was eating the corn I was thinking to myself "Hey, save me a piece of that corn!" haha Good times. Oh and I got to drink out of a fresh coconut, its an interesting flavor, it doesn’t taste like the coconut that I know, haha but it was cool.

Then we had another baptism for Sister C who is 17 and she wants to serve a mission, and also for Brother R.  who is 13.  He has been going to church since he was a little kid and he just forgot to be baptized. haha Also Alan who is 14, he also wants to serve a mission and has already started to save money for it! It was a good day. I didn’t get any pictures of them so I will have to steal them from my comp and send them to you later.

Today for p day some of our zone decided to go to another cave, it was pretty neat. I felt like Indiana Jones, but unfortunately there was no treasure inside this cave.
So here are some funny/cool experiences I had this week. So I was studying the Abrahamic Covenant and I was lead to Proverbs 10:1 which says "A ^bwise son maketh a ^cglad ^dfather: but a ^efoolish son is the ^fheaviness of his ^gmother." I read that and laughed to myself thinking "sorry Mom" haha

The other experience was really cool, so there is this family that always has us over for dinner and they always invite us to join their  scripture study with them.   But they only had 4 Book of Mormons for the 5 of them.   I remembered that in our apartment we have this stack of Books of Mormon that we never use because they are in English.  So when we went to their house this week I brought a book with me and gave it to them. I wish you all could have seen the little kid’s faces.   They said, “Now we can all read and not have to share!” haha  And the parents were grateful because no they wouldn’t fight over them haha. Then we sat with them and had a great scripture study and since we were reading in English they had a lot of questions for me. haha  It was a good experience.

So its picture time...not! The computers here are crappy, and all of my pictures were just deleted. crap! I will just steal more from my comp.
Well everybody,  I love you and I thank you for all of your support.

Oxoxox

 Love,

 Elder Proctor