E-mail dated 9/3/18

Kamusta kamo??!

Well hopefully this email will be better than the last 2, I was kind of rushed the last 2. I will try my best to do better this time!  I was very glad to hear the utes did as the should and beat weber state! I am excited to hear all about how the utes do this year! 

Well this week has been an eventful and pretty busy week! So this week on tuesday was transfer day. Elder Schley went home so I was just with the other elders in our zone until my new companion got here. BUt on tuesday we had to go to this huge bus terminal called Tagbak terminal for transfers. And since this terminal is a part of our zone it is ours responsibility to keep track of all the missionaries that came through the terminal. It was a long day full of many phone calls and trying to coordinate everything, but everyone ended up in their new area safe, as far as I know. So My new companion is Elder Tolentino. He is from Manapla Negros, Philippines so he is a native speaker of the language. He is a really cool guy, loves basketball, so I think we are going to have a good companionship. He is just a few transfers ahead of me in the mission, but this is already his 6th area. Also along with transfers an area opened up in our zone, so now their are 8 sisters and 4 elders in Lapaz zone/district, it is a very unique zone, but it is a fun group of missionaries. 

So once transfer day was over, it sort of turned into a normal week, not really. I don't think there was one day that actually went as planned. We were kind of all over the place this week, between giving people blessings at the hospital ,taking people places and many other things. At the end of the week it settled down and we were able to get some great work done. We were able to contact some referrals and get a lot of new investigators! It was awesome, one day we got 6 in one day. On saturday we were able to teach the family referral that came to church last sunday, it was an amzing lesson. They told us their great experience they had at church and during the lesson sister asked, "How do I join your church?" So of course we were way excited, that is the first time and investigator has asked that. 

Something kind of funny happened yesterday. So we were at this one appointment, where they would not stop talking, so once we fiinally got out of the lesson, it was dark. Our next appointment we had to go through this jungle ish area and then cross a bamboo bridge, but I had never made this excursion in the dark, but I was confident I could do it. Well as we traveled, with only our tiny cell phone as a flash light, things quickly changed from familiar to very unfamiliar, up until the point we were just  lost. I had no idea where the bamboo bridge was or where we were. We finally asked people where the road was and when we found the road we came out like the complete opposite end of our area, it was an interesting adventure. 

Well that should do it for this week! Sorrry no pictures, I need to get my camera fixed, its being all weird. But Thanks for all the emails and support each week! Love you guys!!! 

Palangga ko kamo!

Elder Degen