E-mail dated 1/21/19

Kamusta kamo??!!!

Its been another really fast week!! It is time to email again! Sometimes I sit down to email you guys and I don't really have an idea of how to or what to say to you guys, and this is one of those times! But I will try my best to not make this email boring...hopefully they're not usually boring. 

This week was a pretty good one though. Although we did get what you call "punted" a lot this week. Which means we would go to our appointments and they were either not their or told us to come back at another time, but nonetheless we still got some good teaching done this week! And also a lot of walking haha! This week we have continued to teach and to help build the testimony of the Gallo Family (Bro Rameer, RamRam and Trisha)  and also of Arselean and Irine. They are doing good and it was for the best to move their baptisms. Arselean and Irine have a date for Feb 2, we feel by then they will be ready! The Gallo family we are still helping and also have a date for Feb 2. The Gallo family is a lot of fun, especially the kids, every time we walk by their house, which is like everyday, they always ask "magtudlo kamo der?" (Are you going to teach us elder?) They really enjoy being taught and they said they want to go on missions as well when they are old enough. Ram ram is even counting down the years until he can serve a mission haha! This week after we taught them one night, they wanted and got permission to come with us to our appointment with one of the members that lives close to them and they loved feeling like a missionary! haha! I think it is cool that even though they are so young they already want to serve! I will send pictures of us with them later! 

Also this week we have been teaching this really awesome nanay, nanay jessie that we just met on the street. She has got to be one of the nicest ladies out there. She just wants to know where the truth is because she is confused with the many churches. As we taught her the restoration and especially the Book of Mormon it was really cool to see how excited she was to read the Book of Mormon. When we came back she was very excited to tell us all about what she read.  She also asked us randomly if we pray for her and we of course answered yes we pray for you. And she told us that sometimes we will just pop into her head at night and she told us that she knew we were praying for her, so that was really cool. We have a plan to invite her to be baptized this week! 

Well I am not sure what else to tell you guys...oh I did eat like a ton of Mangoes and we just bought 2 more kilos earlier. Guimaras is famous for mangoes and wow they are sooo good and now it is starting to get more in season so they are getting cheaper wahoo! just thought I'd share that for no reason haha! 

Well it was great to hear from all of you again this week! I am glad to hear that everyone is doing well, glad to hear that the Jazz are doing well! GO JAZZ! Well Love you guys and hope you have another great week!! 

Palangga ko kamo!

Elder Joshua Degen