E-mail dated 12/3/18

Kamusta kamo??!!!

Well this week has been a great one! It has just flown bye! This being our first full week here in Buenavista was great, we got a lot of great work done and are starting to get more familiar with the area and members! It truly is a blessing to serve here! 

So this week we were incredibly blessed with people to teach. We have opened an area that has just been waiting for missionaries so these people could be taught. There are a lot of part members, most of are investigators are already living with a member and have been coming to church and are so willing to be taught about the gospel! One of our investigators we are teaching is sister Irish, who lives with the family of the branch president ( she was basically adopted by the pres fernandez) we have taught her a few times now and she has a baptismal goal date of december 22, she is so excited! She loves reading the Book of Mormon and after we taught her a couple of times and explained baptism, she was excited! We have also been blessed with 2 other investigators that are living with the 1st counselor, his grandchildren actually. They are awesome as well and come to church every week! And just yesterday we were able teach a part member family ( the wife is the only member), and the brother and 2 kids are so willing to listen and they came to church as well yesterday! We are so truly blessed to be able to teach these people about the gospel. Its not often that this happens like this when re opening an area, but we are just very grateful! The area is also so beautiful, I will send pictures later! 

Also this week we have been practicing for the annual mission conference! The whole mission will get together dec 11-12 for our mission christmas conference! Every zone will give a presentation and ours we will be singing samoan song, tagalog song and bunch of other cool stuff, we are going to win! We will show the mission where the best zone is! haha!

Today we went to Iloilo and finally got a cellphone, its been like 10 days without one, kind of been hard to coordinate, but now its all good! we also finally got an iron and a table wahoo!

Well I love and appreciate all of you guys a lot! You guys are the best! I am so blessed and grateful for this chance that I have to serve a mission here in the philippines. It is the best! Being a missionary is so fun, experience that you can't get anywhere else! Love you guys and have a great week!

Palangga ko kamo!

Elder Degen