August 12, 2013

Hello Everybody,

Mom, I haven't gotten my License or present yet, but think I will this week, you can just hold on to my real license I think the temporary one will work perfectly. I cant believe that they have already told you when I will be speaking in sacrament meeting, that day sounds great! Will they give me a topic? please say they will haha we will see how my English is by then haha.

I haven't really done anything for my birthday yet, we did go eat lunch at this place called FatKidInside haha I know great name for a restaurant, they have some really good American burgers and that was about it.
This week has been another great one, Bro Sannie(the one in the wheelchair) came to church again and had a great experience, except for this little terror 3 year old girl that wants to push him around in the chair and we have to scare her off haha.

On Friday we were walking down this busy street, sweating bullets as usual, and this old man gets our attention and waves for us to go to him so we did, He asked us why we walk instead of drive cars, we told him that we do it so that we can talk to everyone we can, he then invited us into his home, we then found out that he used to be taught by the missionaries years ago and had a Book of Mormon and has been reading it! We were so shocked, as Elder Tietjen and I walked away we asked each other did that really happen? We will be meeting with him and his wife this week to teach more to them. We are excited. I love this work.

I love all of you hope all is well.

Love,
Elder Proctor


On a side note, not from Jared, this was the news article that happened the day Jared sent this email.  No mention of the storm whatsoever. :)

(CNN) -- The world's strongest storm of the year so far plowed across the northern Philippines on Monday, killing at least one person and leaving 20 fishermen missing.
Packing winds as strong as 200 kilometers per hour (124 mph), Typhoon Utor made landfall early Monday on the east coast of the Philippine island of Luzon, damaging hundreds of houses.
"It's the strongest typhoon we've had so far on the planet this year," said CNN International meteorologist Samantha Mohr. "So that gives you some idea of the magnitude of this system."
Utor, known in the Philippines as Labuyo, churned west-northwest over Luzon, dumping heavy rain on the island's hilly terrain and bringing the risk of landslides. It weakened as it moved over land, and by Monday afternoon, it had begun to head out into the South China Sea.

Jared mentioned nothing of this storm in his letter today. The storm track was a direct hit.

August 5, 2013

Hi Everyone,

I love you all!, I am grateful for all of your love and support that you have given me throughout my mission. I love my family.

This week has been a good one and a sad one, with the work going great and with saying goodbye to some of my best friends in the mission. I have had a good week, I guess I always do though haha.

One of our investigators came to church yesterday and earlier this week he committed to Baptism and started reading the Book of Mormon on his own! He is so humble and has a heart of gold he is 22 and has been confined to a wheel chair his whole life. When I was starting to feel sick, we were at his house teaching him and he said the prayer and he asked Heavenly Father to bless me to be healed, I was touched by his concern and selflessness He being confined to a wheel chair and praying for me to get over a fever. Man I love this work.

We also started teaching this man that says he is an atheist but that he wants to know if there is a God, we had a great lesson with him about prayer and he said that he would pray. We continue to pray that he will do it and have sincerity.
Again I love missionary work.

I hope all of you are doing well, I love all of you.

Love,
Elder Proctor

July 28, 2013

Hello Everyone,

I am feeling almost all better, I am still recovering but all is well. I did tell my mission mom and she recommended some medicine for me to take.

I am glad to hear that everything went well with getting my license worked out. I don’t want going home to be any harder than it has to be. Speaking of going home, I don’t know what this Official Release date is you are all asking about, its been Oct 23 for a long time now, I got my trunky papers a few weeks ago and that’s the date that it had on it. Sounds pretty official to me.
The ranch sounds like a blast, those family events are the best, I miss things like that.

Mom my new Mission Presidents name is President Rahlf, he and his wife are great, they are a perfect fit to their calling here in the Cauayan Mission. In my
interview with him he told me that when I go in for my exit interview he wants me to wear a tie that I wont miss, they plan on making a quilt out of the neck ties of Elders they knew, when I heard that I thought that is something that my mom would do and you know that I am right haha.

The work is going good, we are making up for the lost time when I wasn’t able to work. We are teaching this 22 year old man that is confined to a wheel chair, he is so humble and teachable and is so prepared to hear the gospel.
I love this work. I am finishing strong

I love all of you.
Love,
Elder Proctor

July 22, 2013

Hey everybody,
There isn’t a whole lot to report on this week, I got a crazy high fever and I am still recovering, my energy is low and I ache. But hey I am alive right?
I love all of you I hope you have a great week
Love Elder Proctor

July 15, 2013

Hey Ya'll

 So with the notary thing here is what happened, I came out of the internet shop then we went to the Barber and as I was talking to the barber I thought he might know where I could find one, sure enough he did, there was an attorney office 2 doors down from the barber and, we went into the office the guy there did what he needed to do and it was done haha I was amazed at how easy it was and it only cost 50 pesos not too bad.

 This week has been great, we have had some progress in getting support from the members, and we got some referrals that we plan to contact this week. As far as the families we are teaching go, the first family is a mom her two sons and a grandma, they are very nice to us. They actually offered us coffee after our first appointment, we just told them that we don’t drink coffee and they were nice about it. The mom is actually a Methodist pastor, she was very surprised to know that we were volunteers and that we don’t get paid to be missionaries.

Another family we are teaching are amazing, they are practically members, when we found them they already had a picture of the Manila temple hanging up in their house. What happened with them is that they were taught by the missionaries a long time ago but then they were both transferred and so the family just kind of slipped through and haven’t seen missionaries for years. 

I am loving this area, its challenging and rewarding, Elder Tietjen is a great missionary we have lots of fun and work hard.

I love all of you, thanks for the support

Love Elder Proctor      

July 8, 2013

Mom,
 As far as the ID thing goes even a forged one would work, and yes I do need more than just a passport, that’s coming from my mission president, It just needs to be a photo of me with a name in a semi-looks legit sort of way haha
but if you guys don’t want me to come home then I wouldn’t worry too much about it haha just kidding I will keep looking around for a notary but the clock is ticking and I have yet to find one. Either way it will all work out if they ask for a second photo id at the airport I will just jedi mind trick them, my force is through the roof these days haha
 In other news this week has been great, Elder Tietjen and I had a companionship fast so that we could find a family that would be willing to hear our message. And by the end of the week we found 3 families! that’s pretty neat! We are still struggling with the lack of support from the ward and the fact that our area is 28km away from our apartment but through the atonement we are made able! I love this work. I know that its true, I know that we have living prophets and apostles on the earth today and that Heavenly Father reveals his will to them, I know that Jesus lives, and loves us too.
I love all of you, thanks for the prayers and support
Love Elder Proctor

June 30, 2013

Hey Er'body,

This week has been great, we watched the worldwide training broadcast and its just what we needed. We don’t have the best support from the members when it comes to missionary work. So we are hoping that this will get them excited about it. As of now Elder Tietjen and I have just been tracting, its going good but we all know that there is a better way to gather Israel.

Mom don’t worry about the money, I have officially stopped buying stuff I just need to send something home and that will be the last of it.

Also who is this Devon that spoke with Reeve? haha 

I love all of you, I wont go easy

Love Elder Proctor 

PS So I haven’t been able to get my license paper signed, I will still work on it but just in case can you send me some sort of photo id asap, even if you have to make a fake one, I need some sort of photo id besides my passport to get on the plane in Cauayan when i come home. I really need this so it would be great if you did this.  thanks