Week 50

 Dahil sa iyo

oh man what a week!  I'm out of the island and its a sad  happy  because the island is great and all, but man the vibes from that place. I have never been in a more laid back environment, like it got really hard to stay motivated but I'm glad I still worked hard and am moved on. I know God was with me there.  

My new companion's name is Elder Dela Cruz and he's a really cool guy. I Don't really know him too much yet, it's only been four days. It's actually really cool here, really touristy. There are tons of shops and restaurants and stuff,  

 just some pics of the new area, I finally got my camera back! I found out I can do panoramas.

We are in a branch and even though there will always be a bit of poverty, I'd say this place is a little fancier. The town square kind of reminds me of SLC,I love it here so far. My apartment is really nice.

Monday. We had our last FHE at the Mabolo family and it was really fun!

Tuesday. We had all of our appointments and mainly just said good bye and keep it real it was a pretty hard but loving day.

Wednesday. We started packing and had our last district meeting, I printed some pics and said final goodbyes. also I couldn't sleep that night which kind of bit me in the butt the next day but that's okay. 

Thursday. Traveled for a total of 12 hours to get to the Sta Cruz Pila area and this place is so beautiful too. They have a giant catholic church here. and don't get me wrong the Catholics have Christianity all wrong but their architecture in buildings are amazing. I love seeing them all. 

Friday. I spent the day mainly following my comps lead and visiting people and it was fun I really enjoyed meeting all the new people and this area is already working well (finally an area I don't have to fix) they have like 5 baptisms coming up so I'm excited.

Saturday We visited our investigators to remind them to come to church I really like all the people Ive met so far, this is a great area. 

Sunday. we had church and the branch is really cool I've met a lot of really fun youth members. The branch president fed us lunch then he has a tradition that every new misisonary in the area has to sing for his family.....so yea I sang a solo of "I am a child of god." by myself for his entire family. I'm surprised they are still alive. 

Right now I am reading in 3rd nephi. Its probably my favorite part in the BOM just because Jesus the living Christ himself ministers to the people and I just love the part where after he leaves and his apostles continue what hes doing exactly as he did it. it just showed their faith in making sure it was exact because it puts emphasis on the ordinance because the exactness is what makes them important. I mean ordinances are just prayers you can throw out you have to be specific in certain guidelines. like Jesus, but after they did then the heavens opened up angels came out and ministered unto them all. just like it talked about in 2nd nephi where if you feed on the words of christ you will have tongues of angels. SOOO COOL! 

anyways I love you all good bye see you next week!