Week 43

sorry I'm really busy this week because it's transfer week, lots of lessons and stuff with members! I'm helping get the district set up. I cant really do much of a letter this week I'm sorry! I love the new changes of the missionary rules so much, it takes a lot of stress off on me as a missionary. The super bowl party looked fun! I loved the video, glad to see everyone!

Love you all
Elder Yarro 

week 42

Biggity birthday!

 Monday! We had another FHE in Balanacan and played uno and the last person to have cards got his face drawn on with lipstick....it was me....

Tuesday! we went to visit a member in the hospital and check on him, as we went through the hospital all these moms asked if we could give their newborn babies a name and a blessing. I told them it would be great but won't do anything unless they understand the gospel more and have faith, then got a lot more new people to teach!

Wednesday! For the district meeting we ate cake and ice cream!!!

 

It looks better than it tastes trust me on that. Desserts here are waaay less sweet. imagine bread with sugar.... looks cool, but didn't even finish it

 Thursday! my birthday I'm 20 years old.....I love manhood! I feel the exact same.....hahah not much else.

Friday! we had exchanges in Gasan. went and taught a lot of people! There are only like maybe 40 buildings on the whole island haha, most people here live in shacks, they are made out of some weird kind of wood, this stuff called yero. or sometimes cement. It's a nice build but not really stable. and most of the time the floors are dirt or they put some kind of thin plastic to look like floor.

Saturday! Was awesome! we had this hike to the Luzom Datum, or the heart of the Philippines, it is apparently the geographical center of the entire country....or maybe i dunno hahahah but it was super fun most of the branch came! Then they secretly brought a banner with my name on it and sang happy birthday! 

Sunday! we had church then taught English class.  one example, we asked this girl to use the different kinds of "have" she said "I have a happy family." then said "I have to make you suffer." and I DIED 

 LAUGHING!

Love you all
Elder Yarro

Week 41

Monday! had another FHE they are the best here and they bring in so many new investigators our goal is try to do one every P-Day.

Tuesday! We tried to follow the branch to find service but the branch leaves us out in the wind so there ended up being no service so we went back to teaching.

Wednesday! had another Dm and ate at panciton again. normal day none the less. started second exchanges.

Thursday! went to boac again and taught this less active had a really good lesson with her. shes super nice and went back to church from what I heard.

Friday! went and taught a bunch of lessons in Boac.

Saturday! returned and taught a bunch more lessons invited everyone to church

Sunday! had a lot of our investigators come to church. it was crazy. We gave the talks I talked about the book of mormon and talked about how important it is.

 It gets kind of real here sometimes. like the work alone is the only thing getting me through sometimes and even then its not enoug, Im Ok but it is a lot of stress.

I had a dream that got me down the other night. It was actually pretty funny, so I was borrowing granpa Y's truck and drove it to a play. Then when I got back the truck I ralized the truck got stolen, so I went with grandpa and grandma to find it. It turns out it was this GIANT driving mansion that takes cars and re-sells them illegally. So the three of us pretended to be party guests and snuck in, I pretended to be this snotty italian boy, and they pretended to be my parents. To sneak in the part with the truck I pretended to punch grandpa in the face and during the commotion grandmas was fake crying I snuck in and took the keys and we went off with the truck.hahaha

I just got me sad because my first thought when I woke up was...oh yea they're gone.

But I'm over it now. the work is going so well here its crazy.

Thats pretty murch all going on here.

Love you all
Elder Yarro

Week 40

Monday! so we had this huge family home evening of like 20 people and it was a huge success we met tons of new people and asked to teach their families. we played uno and had lots of fun!

 

Tuesday! We went and taught all the new people we met the night before and it was awesome!Then we hunted some buko! we took our machetes and cut them open and drank their inards (buko is coconut so no, I;m not a cannibalistic freak) 

 

Wednesday! We had district meeting and we ate at this place called panciton it was delicious. but kind of awkward because the waitress kept hitting on me, they like American boys here. I kept telling her about my "girlfriend" but she didn't care. but hey discounts!

Thursday! We had weekly planning. then we had exchanges and I went to Boac, We did service and I sliced my finger open!!! AWESOME!! then we went back and cooked mashed potatoes and gravy with chicken freak it was so good.

Friday! We tracted all day it was hard because their area is struggling. It's okay though they are great missionaries.

Saturday! We returned and taught and gave a book of mormon to this guy named Rally, he's really cool and just a nice funny guy. He is a catholic and used to teach gospel at the high school near his house but he feels like a lot of Catholics are hypocrites and the doctrine is weird.

Sunday. we ate dinner at a members house and then Rally called and told us that the BOM was the best thing hes ever read and wants to be baptized super bad.

Love you all
Elder Yarro

Week 39

Finally a skype!

Week 38

OH BOY GUYS YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW CRAZY THIS WEEK HAS BEEN HOLY CRAP.

wish I got a tshirt for surviving a catagory 4 typhoon on an island in the Philippines!

okay here's some context. last Sunday around 3 am a big typhoon his (her name is Nina shes a jerk) she has 150 mph winds. From what I heard it was so bad the island was considered in a state of calamity. "Following the devastation wrought by Typhoon Nina, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng Marinduque has declared the entire island-province of Marinduque under a State of Calamity. Acting on the recommendation of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC), the Sanggunian under..."

anyways it pretty much wrecked the entire island. We finally got power for a little while yesterday and water. So all week we literally have been building houses and being disgusting. We have been boiling water and sweating. It's probably the best part of my mission so far.

So Monday morning. (the night before I stocked up on food and put all my district under one house so we could all be safe) the 5 of us woke up at 3 am to the typhoon and it was crazy. We kept making jokes and videos all night hahahah. we only slept like 3 hours,  and during that time a giant tree fell onto our door so when we woke up we could not go outside. so we went to the kitchen and grabbed a bunch of kitchen knives and machetes and went to work on the tree,  it took us about 3 hours before we could get out. After that we spent all day checking the other apartments and building houses for people around. We tried to sleep in Boac again but no power made it hard cause it got hot as frick

A man we knew from the neighborhood was killed. 

Tuesday. about the same. We went and hauled water for one of our members to fill her bathroom and built more roofs. They fed us boku. and it was delicious. they finally fixed the main roads so we could go to different barangays and check on our other apartments and luckily no damage. It was fun and lucky the zone leader has a car which made everything so much easier,  also we went with the district leader to different areas to assess damage of members. saw some pretty devastating stuff.(no sleep so hot) 

Wednesday. hung out at the church with some of the members as we all used the gas generator to charge our phone and stuff. (I used a members laptop to email my family to tell them that I'm alive) then after I packed up and left for San Pablo because I got called to become a trainer. (luckily the ferry's were up and running) went and slept in San Pablo (no sleep also)

Thursday. I went and picked up my new trainee his name is elder Mismash and he is from Utah! we hung out in Lucena mall and I ate my first real meal of the week. Mcdonalds!!! (surviving off of ramen and water before that) then I taught him how to like.....go to the bathroom. aaahhh the reward of being a parent. slept in Lucena ( still no sleep cause not enough beds.)

Friday. We finally got back to the island but waited at the port for 2 hours. then we had a brutal 4 hour boat ride to the island. I finally I went back to Boac to pick up my laundry. then tried to skype my family because I heard that Boac was getting reports of power in the center of town. that was a failure it was shutting off like 5 times.

Saturday. Finally got to call instead of skype because there were no good cameras ahahaha then we got power in Mogpog.  I finally got to sleep the night before new years. I slept from 7pm to 6:45Am got a very fantastic 11 hours of sleep.

anyways this week has been absolutely crazy. I have seen some awful heart wrenching things some very bad things happen to good people and this beautiful island got hurt. But being a part of the thing to help make it better and help these people has been one of the best moments of my life. I love this church and these people.

Love you all
Elder Yarro

Week 37

Hey guys so im alive, so you guys would not believe how these last few days have been hahah but long story short we are looking at 2 months no electricity. im training so ill be in the mainland tonight around hopefully 9 ish (my time) to skype. so try to get on by then. love you all. keep it real. and dont eat grass.

Love you all
Elder Yarro

Typhoon #2

Dear Philippines San Pablo Mission Family,
I am writing to inform you that have a Tropical Storm (Nock-ten) approaching our mission and by the time it reaches us, it is projected to be a Category 2 or Category 3 Typhoon (Nina). We have been observing this storm for a couple of days and are making preparations for its arrival. The main track of the storm is just north of our mission. We should experience high winds and heavy rains. We anticipate that we will start feeling the initial impact of the storm Christmas morning and it should clear our mission by Tuesday night. I have asked our missionaries to use wisdom and to stay in their apartments and not be out during the worst of the storm. All our missionaries are in safe, secure locations and prepared for the impact of the storm.

They have been instructed to keep their cell phones charged. We have a calling tree in place for rapid communication across the mission. We are fortunate to have Senior Couple Missionaries in each of our mission zones who will also be watching over your sons, daughters, and loved ones.
If the storm compromises our electrical or Internet infrastructure, your scheduled Christmas calls may be impacted. If so, you will be able to reschedule them to another time once services are restored. Also, you may receive your email late next week from your missionary. Be assured, I will be constantly monitoring the situation, and my first concern will always be the safety of the missionaries. We love each of them!
Join us as we pray for any in the Philippines who may be impacted by this typhoon. We pray for their safety and protection. If there are any further developments that would impact our missionaries, I will let you know.
Regards,
President Mangum
Philippines San Pablo Mission


I am happy to report that Typhoon Nina has cleared our mission as of this evening and all of our missionaries are safe and well. The overall impact to our mission was moderate with localized heavy rain which created some flooding in lower areas and moderate winds. Our two islands, Marinduque and Mindoro, were the hardest hit areas in our mission. Many of our members’ homes suffered damage to their roofs and a few homes were total losses. The Filipino People are amazingly resilient and the cleanup and rebuilding efforts are already underway.

If your missionary was not able to call or Skype due to loss of internet or power, they will be allowed to reschedule with you. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me
Regards,
President Mangum
Philippines San Pablo Mission

Week 36

Okay so I have a lot to catch up on so I'm gonna do this real quick because we are actually EXTREMELY busy this week out here.

Monday. We had a zone p-day, went to this swimming hole and had an airsoft war it was fun to get to know the zone more. too bad that wont be happening again (ill let you know more later)

Tuesday. we didn't do much just went out and taught lessons and cleaned the apartment. 

Wednesday. We had our Zone training meeting, I gave a talk about personal study in the scriptures. I mainly talked about that everyone should have some kind of system to help their brain focus when they are studying instead of just reading. I feel really strong about this and that is why I'll never just have electronic scriptures when I'm home. GOOOOO PAPER! Then we all went to Boac to film this little video for zone conf, we did some OYMing in the bayan because fiesta was going on and there were a lot of people walking around. It was super fun!

Thursday. I made some good chicken adobo for lunch (I'm really good at cooking it now) so glad I learned it, it will probably save me in college lol. then we worked with this member and visited our members and let them know about the primary program this Sunday and that we have a practice this Saturday.

Friday. we had exchanges with the Zone leaders, I was with elder Snyder. He was a nice guy from Jordan Utah. he's been out awhile so he's really fun to work with. also my watch broke at 1:25 so all day I thought it was like 1:30. Then when I found out it was like 5 pm. I was so happy that I felt like I skipped like 4 hours haha

Saturday. We cleaned our apartment again, its really hard cause we still don't have water until night time. then we just went to all our RCLA and investigators and invited them to church. 

Sunday. we had our primary program and it was awesome! as always I love watching it. same here as back home, lovely and hilarious at the same time.

Love you all
Elder Yarro

 

Week 35

Monday. We went to Boac and fished with them.

Tuesday. we went out and had a normal day of work and lessons. We have one progressing investigator, she's really cool and wants to get baptized all the time.

Wednesday. we had our normal district meeting, and then I had an exchange with elder Striusmka. he's a super cool California born American.I'ts so nice to talk and hang out with an American every now and then. it's hard to explain, just something different about it.

Thursday. at the end of the exchange we had elder Genterone from Cebu cook some spaghetti for us. he is an UNREAL cook. after that we went back home and went to teach and preach like missionaries do. 

Friday. we prepared for this baptism, it's a member's kid, they asked us to prepare the service and my comp to baptize him. so we went and typed up the service and then invited members. 

Saturday. we had the baptism it was great and spiritual as always. I gave a workshop about enduring to the end. it was good, just the usual how enduring to the end is awesome and can be hard too but because we were baptized and have the gift of the holy ghost we can make it easier. then MARIBEL came. shes our best progressing investigator. so after we taught her, and we asked her how she felt about the baptism and she said it was beautiful and she wants that and started crying it was awesome! I love being a missionary.

Sunday. we taught a member named Rico, he is stuck in a wheel chair and his village is too far for him to go to church so we go and bless the sacrament for him every Sunday. He's really cool and he knows magic tricks. Then we packed to head out to Lucena the next day I was stoked because I'll be sleeping in my first area where I trained. and hope I get to see my old converts and friends from the ward.

Love you all
Elder Yarro

Week 34

hey everyone I got a package this week! it was from the 8 & 9 year old class back in my home ward, and I am going to reply to all the letters cause I loved reading them so much! also i forgot to bring my journal so instead of my weeklies I will be doing this hope it makes up for it!

Dear, Maddy Gibson

I am having a wonderful time here I love this place so much! I wake up at 6:30 every morning, sometimes earlier if the power shuts off! I speak Tagolog. is the national language here, at sobrang masaya naman siya kinusap mahal language ganito. I am having loads of fun! I love my mission. and thank you for saying "I like you" I enjoyed reading it but dont know how to react to it......soooo.....I dunno thank you.

Dear, Mika Hansen

Mika thank you so much for the reassurance. I know that GOD IS TRUE also, and I know this church is the one true church on this planet. you rock and your handwriting is so boss. keep it real and never not think got is true. 

Dear, Lexi

Ill try my best to have a good mission. 

Dear, Malia McDonald

I am having lots of fun here! thank you for saying im the funnest person on earth and definitely "out of space." That made my day! you are out of this world! hahah and the philippines are great! this place is always warm!

Dear, Avery Gewondtan

My mission is FABULOUS! i love it here, and i have already entered the temple multiple times! and the temple here also! so your hoping worked out! hah thank you! and I hope I help alot of people too!

Dear, Bethany Kenney

Its a blast here in the philippines. hahah I love it here! I just finished playing with a monkey someone had as a pet! and my testimony and great! its growing but I know without a doubt this is the true church and where people can find happiness and love in this life and eternity in the next! and I dont know if everyone is getting along well....there are like 150 of us here.... hahah I hope so though! I dont mean to suprise you haha! and Ill try my best to be safe! 

Dear, Mauri Ann Heim

It is hard sometimes, like now we do not have running water in our apartment until after 8pm everyday....so yea its harder.... hahahha buts thats okay! and I wanted to go ANYWHERE but stateside in america, also I hope xmas in the philippines in the philippines is magical also! everyone here loves christ so much and they are all very excited! and I will be careful! and I do love my mission!

Thank you all so much for these letters they made my entire month to read them hahahah so great! I love my ward and miss you all! stay safe! 

I love that Elder Mumm finally came to visit you!  He said you guys are awesome! and isn't he just the best hahaha what stories did he tell you?

 

Ok these pictures take a little to explain. some are of me and my comp at the yearly "miss gay" pageant. We got invited by a member who won miss marinduque last year. I'ts a beauty pageant except for baklas (cross dressers, transvestite) so yea...all those girls on the stage, are not girls....at all. haha the pic of us by the tree are of me and comp with her, she is a girl. hahaha 

 

 fishing today I only caught a shirt..........it was a hard sink but my skills allowed me to do it.

  a monkey some neighbor had as a pet so we were messing with her. her name was moimoi

 

we don't have water in the morning anymore....its just really hard so we bought a trash can and fill it with water the night before....and use that to cook and shower and wipe hahaha

 

Love you all

Elder Yarro

 

 

Week 33

"time flies when you are having fun, or secretly sad cause you are 11,000 kilometers from home and work hard anyways." - Elder Striuskma

really funny kid and a little depressing but oh well. 

Monday. For this last P-day we mainly just cleaned and went out to work. I know this is small but like......i don't know what else to say, describe scraping food off of plates in the sink isn't really worth remember 5 years from now. 

Tuesday. big day! like most we went and worked and got around 20 oyms and lots of lessons! We have this one girl who is good friends with a member so shes been taking the lessons beautifully and wants to get baptized.

Wednesday.  we had District Meeting, then we went to the palengki and I bought these awesome airsoft guns,one is this big sniper with a laser sight and the other is a blue AK47. this kid next door came and played with our guns and we asked if we could come and teach him and his family and he did not want us to.

 

Thursday. THIS WAS AN AWESOME DAY! we got this member in another elder's area to let us work with him on his rice FARM! yes that's right I picked and plucked and planted rice. it was soooooooooooooo awesome. I didn't wear shoes and we just got walk out in the rice field and planted and worked. it was so freaking awesome! my comp has the pics so ill try to steal them from him

Friday. We had two lessons they weren't anything special. just visited some members and asked for a referral. but her daughter is like this really beautiful pageant winner so I asked if I could pose with her crown and to tease her later hahaha. 

Saturday. We had Disctict conference. it was a lot of fun I got to see the mission pres and his wife and catch up with them in the morning. then later that night I had 5 more interviews. I always get scared for these. because I take them very seriously. but I got through it and I felt the spirit and really helped them understand they were ready and be more excited for it. 

Sunday. We had district conference. Then all the zone came to our house and we cooked for them. we all celebrated and told stories. it was a good day. 

sorry no pics this week. the computer is being weird. 

Love you all

Elder Yarro

Week 32

Monday. P-day we had a good day and got  a lot done, then went out and worked.

Tuesday. We had 8 lessons and 20 oyms. It was really fun, we got this missionary in the branch to join us and it was a good day. We had a lesson with a less active sister and she was crying because she wanted to go to church but was afraid the branch would judge her. so I commited her to pray if god wants her go to or not. it was a good lesson.  This last Sunday she came and she was so happy. She said God told her to go! that was dope! 

I have noticed that the people here over react a lot, like one guy left the church because he didn't get passed the sacrament. so I said "so you left he perfect gospel and our lord Jesus Christ because a 12 year old didn't give you the sacrament? do you think he hates your or what?

I think its just that the education here isn't so great. and also because they like media from American dating movies too. like showing weak immature people in a cooky relationship doing funny things. I dunno to be honest.

Wednesday. I had my very first district meeting as a DL and it was a little scary but the lord was with me and I think I did a good job. so that's good. then we played a round of munchkin!

Thursday. during lunch we went to Boac and ate horse at this local diner, it is actually freaking good. I will definitely eat some more. Then we went and worked hard!! We also bought some penny boards and we all went skating and now we skate to our appointments. lol woo! 

Friday. we went to this skydeck on our way to our area and I got to the see half of the island I have some BOMB pics of it, Ill put them in another email. we found another new investigator and she is so nice haha really promising. then we finished the day with more oyming!

 

 

Saturday. We went to this area by the port with all the ships and it was fun to oym some people there. Then I had a baptismal interview with an investigator with some elders in my disctrict. I was super nervous cause this interview determines whether the investigator is ready for baptism or not, but it went well. and I passed her because I felt she was ready to make those commitments with god. The interview was amazing. hahah one of my fav things to do as a DL The interview took a while and all the jeeps to our area stopped and we didn't have money to travel back so we slept in Boac with my other elders it was awful we all shared beds and I didn't get a blanket or pillow hahaha #missionlife 

Sunday we went to church and I helped pass the sacrament then we taught youth class, I LOVE THE YOUTH HERE THEY ARE SO FUNNY AND SPIRITUAL! then we took a quick nap at the apartment and went out to work the rest of the day. 

so all in all its suuuuuuuuper dope here on the island. We have to do a vacation on this island holy balls. amazing white sand beaches. soooooooo pretty. like for real.

 

hoooooooooooooooooooooo frick I miss snow, and cold. Everyday here the weather is the same, it feels like time doesn't move hahaha

 

Love you all

Elder Yarro

 

 

 

Week 31

First of all I wanna say I love it here on the island, everything is soooooooooooo beautiful and laid back! this place is so quiet and the people are so nice and I love teaching lessons! I just love this area I am the district leader here! Being DL means I mainly keep the district motivated to work and report numbers and go on splits. I'ts cool. also just saw the basement so much different holy crap. and thank you for a;; the prayers, I'm praying for you all too, I love my district so far they are all really cool.

Monday. We had another lazy pday in Ibaan and played some pool where I wrecked my companion.

Tuesday. spend my last day doing....you guessed it! knocking doors! woo! 

Wednesday. had our last district meeting, it was fun I got to say goodbye to all these people I love so much. Then I worked with elder shumway, who is new and I felt like I helped him a lot coping with the mission and stuff he was having trouble talking to his trainer cause he was a Filipino. Then I cooked for them and we ate this huge feast with a fellow shipper outside talking it was the most fun I've had in months. 

Thursday. was transfer day, very long day I ended up waiting for these other two elders at a jolibees (a fast food place) for 7 hours and they never showed! but we got a call that they skipped me and left straight for the island. so I ended up sleeping at the zone leaders house which destroyed my back. 

Friday. first thing I did was get on the ferry and go straight to the island. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THIS PLACE! like no joke this is the best place ever. I don't have  pictures yet because Ive been busy but I just love it here so much. On the ferry ride I saw some flying fish they were soooooooooooooooo cool the ride is about 3 hours long

Saturday. Lots of hard work we went and just taught a lot of lessons I miss teaching lessons man its been waaaaaaaaaaaay too long. 

Sunday church was crazy because I gave a suprise talk (thanks dad for the backup talk idea) and I had to bless the sacrament in Tagalog for the first time, but I managed to do good in both of them so I'm happy. We were supposed to have a broadcast from the area 70 and we invited the other elders in our district but they couldn't connect so it got cancelled. so they just chilled at our house because all travel on the island stops at 7. hhaha its really been fun here!

I found a computer shop but there is nothing else here.....not even a 7/11

My new companion is  really cool we get along well. downsides his music taste is AWFUL he been here since February. and he's from Mindanao, which is the lower part of the Philippines, foreigners arent even allowed to go there. Lots of muslims and violence there. look up the history on Google.

My new apartment is freaking awesome! I'll send pics next week. We just have a stove top. and we cant get the gas to work yet... we are gonna try and work on it all today to get it fixed hahaha

this week will be dope! I'm so excited I love it here. like I would have you all come visit me and we all just hang here for a week

tell isabelle to name her drain pouch. the sac of cleanliness. or draw a face on it
I finally heard from Elder Mumm, my trainer!  sounds like he is doing great, I told him to go visit you.

We mainly eat carrots and mangos, for breakfast we have burgers with mango......and whatever a member feeds us normally gulam. which is a mix or veggies and meat

I love getting the pictures from home they dont make me homesick, they made me happy.

Love you all
Elder Yarro 

Week 30

Monday. I had a lot of lbms from some kind of food hahaha, also bought some emergency jeans because I ruined my slacks.

Tuesday.  We played some pool and did a lot more door knocking, my comp got the training call and he's training in this area so that means that I will be transferring. the question is where haha.

Wednesday. We had our zone training meeting, we all met up as a zone and it was really fun! 

 

 

Thursday. We went door knocking again, we found another member who got offended and left the church. he was a super active member. you can always tell by the way they talk about the calls. really sad to see a titan of a saint in a state like this. When I get back I will NEVER let a saint get to this point. I will ask all my bishops for a less active list and go help. this gospel is too important for stuff like this to happen. 

Friday. we knocked more doors (see a pattern?) and watched some basketball.

Saturday. I went to get a freeze slushy. then I got the transfer. I didnt even ask to be transferred, it just happened! TO MARINDUQUE whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo That's an island. Its not just an island. its so small you can walk around it in a day. hahahaha, it'll be hard cause there will be even less stuff there than here. but it'll be so dope to be at the beach. soak my feet. The island has a branch instead of a ward, but I dont care as long as they are enthusiastic about the work. yea I got a few emails from people back home, was nice and refreshing! Im so glad I'm done here and I might be a district leader.

Sunday. I had my last church in this area and then we went and knocked doors again.

 
 Family Question and Answer Time!

Questions

Millie: how many times have you read the BOM so far

Mom:: how often do you cook and what do you make the most 

Isabelle: how are your ties holding up?

Dad: what's your favorite Filipino song

 

Answers

millie:3

Mom: adobo and everyday.

Isbelle: not so good.

Dad: may alak my balak

 

Questions #2

Millie: who is your favorite person that you have taught?

Isabelle: what's the scariest bug over there

Mom: is there anything that we bought you for your mission that has been useless and what has been the most useful (besides pants and shirts? We're the expensive socks worth it?

 

Answers#2

Millie: Jun

Isabelle: either the Lagnat spider or hawk wasp. 

Mom: Most useful. the towels. and least I dunno all of it is pretty nice and the socks are nice too. all the filipino elders ask for a pair and I have plenty to spare. 

Questions #3

Millie: what is the best dessert you have had there

Isabelle: do you eat with chopsticks or a fork more often

Mom: do you still keep in touch with elder Munn, your trainer, and how if so how is he doing back in the real world? Did he have a hard time with the transition?

 

Answers #3

Millie: nothing. lol mango graham cracker cake. SUUUUPER good

Isabelle: fork in the left hand spoon in the right, you would be suprised how well this works. 

Mom: he hasn't emailed me so non whatsoever. 

Questions #4

Millie: do the girls paint their nails over there

Isabelle: have you woken up with any bugs on you

Mom: have you bought yourself anything fun since you have been there, other than pants

 

Answers#4

Millie: no they dont hahaha

Isabelle: of course

Mom: got these dope leather scriptures. still waiting on them. and other than that just books. 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 29

Monday. Pday we had absolutely no money whatsoever. sooooo we just waited and slept until we got the call about it coming it.

Tuesday. was the real Halloween here. its super weird because instead of just trick or treating they turn the cemetery into a carnival and everyone goes and get drunk. pretty much no one was home today.

Wednsday. we had our District meeting. I went on a split with Elder Siafitu, my companion had leadership training in san pablo  until Friday. Siafitu is pretty cool hes new though not even done with training so I pretty much did 100 percent of the talking it helped me boost my confidence in my tagolog skills. 

Thursday. We had a good bunch of lessons. but mainly lots of OYMing. it was hard because our power AND our water shut off and my companion was having some hardcore LBMS cause he was still adjusting to the food lol it was bad I had to hear his scream every time he went because he didn't  have water to....like do stuff. we played a lot of pool waiting for it to come back on so we could shower, and I lost 3 games in a row. I suck at pool 

 

 

Friday. We traded again and did our usual work. lots of oyming no lessons......

Saturday. we did some more work and my companion did a nice thing for me while I was chilling. he did my laundry for me, and shined my shoes. Kids a champ. I love him. 

Sunday. It was fast Sunday. that's always hard, when we came back after church I learned a great lesson in procrastination,  I put my laundry in the tub (absolutely HATE doing laundry here) and got too lazy to do it because it takes me 2 hours. so I put it off after a week. turns out the laundry soap has bleach in it that soaked in my clothes and ruined pretty much all my pants....except one pair. The pair I was using during the week......sooooooo I need some pants hahaha can you send some money?  im just gonna buy some black jeans or something until I get more

 

there aren't any highlights from my week to tell, lol we go door to door and get shut down door to door...... like that's my life in this area right now. I'm emailing my president about how this place might need to have the missionaries pulled to refocus the work in better areas, I know I'm trying my best but its hard to stay 100 obedient here because its sooo boring. lol I'm trying hard though no worries there.

 

 

 

I am reading a bunch of conference talks from our sr couple here. they are live savers for real. 

 

oh gosh Im so sorry about Isabelle and her neck surgery,  lol tell her I love her

 

Love you all

Elder Yarro

Week 28

I just went as a missionary
Monday. We had normal pday, and no money so we just chilled.

Tuesday. we cooked and ate squid for the first time, it was alright. then we went out proslyting and chilling. it was fun. found 3 new familys to teach and went to this random ladys house who invited us in to her birthday party and fed us. 

Wednsday. we had some members finally fellowship with us! and after I found a kitty and took it to the apartment and fed it some powder milk and tuna then let it sleep out of the apartment. 

Thursday. I named the kitty Sylvia. then we had zone interviews! i love president and sister mangum they are the best!

Friday. after work we had some trick or treaters come and ask for candy but we didnt have any...so we gave them some ramen packets and jesus pamphlets! YAAY they loved them hahaha they were all dressed up and stuff too. 

Saturday. We were trying to get the branch to come with us to meet our investigators and invite them to come to church but they just hid from us. 

Sunday. no investigators showed up to church.......again. but we had our sr couple come and go to church at our branch they are great! after they took us up to lipa and my companion got his patriarchal blessing. after that they gave us pb&js and we got ready and worked after it was a good day!

yea I dunno. its a little better, still feel like I have two hands tied behind my back wit the work cause they branch isnt doing anything

 

I talked to my mission president and he just told me to keep praying and not give up, He's just so nice and whenever I go to the big missionary meetings it makes me feel like I'm not alone in this ya know? like there are 150 other people struggling just as hard as me

 

I just found out that a man we had been teaching is gay, I had a hunch that he was experimenting (you have no idea how common that is here)  

sorry no pictures right now! next week I promise! 

Love you all

Elder Yarro

Week 27

Monday. we played games at the stake center in lipa! still dealing with the typhoon. there was sooo much water everywhere.

Tuesday. we were on exchanges I was with elder salazar. we got punted alot so we went house to house tracting. loooooong day.

 

 

Wednsday. the new typhoon hit and nothing really happened at all. I tried making ramen and ended up burning my thumb and cutting my pinky.... lol some good bowl of ramen. 

Thursday. I put shoe glue on my cut thinking it was just normal super glue.....the biggest difference is shoe glue gets hot when in contact with air....the pain of my burning open flesh was magnificent lol I screamed. 

 

 Friday. we got punted more because of the typhoon so we tracted

Saturday. was a fantastic day. loooots of new families to teach. it was a good day.

Sunday. we gathered the branch missionaries and had a "come to jesus" meeting they talked about how it was hard to trust cause they had crappy missionaries back then, but we fixed it and they all want to help now. So I'm excited for the work in this area now! 

 

 

 

Its kinda boring here, I just walk around and talk to people and mostly hang out in the apartment be cause of the typhoon.  We try to help as much as we can but the people here are so self conscious about their stuff they never accept service, I begged someone but its just culture here,  its really hard here, oh well, I'll be fine hahaha

I cant believe Chandler is dating Justine! hahahahahahahahahahha oh my gosh I miss that kid! hahahaha

 

Love you all

Elder Yarro