1. & 2. just one gwapo guy ;)

3. FHE with the Gensis family

4. our Bishop is a professional guitarist. he is so good..

11/25/19

Family and Friends,

this week was a great week, but personally a way hard week... I've been leading a large chunk of lessons and teaching some whole ones on my own, which has been a good good good stretch in the language department... but it's been cool to finally realize some of the progress I am making and I have such a sincere testimony of the gift of tongues...but just kind of stressful and hard at the same time. but a really good week to set me up for the next transfer... it's crazy, it really doesn't feel like November really happened, it flew by really...its been such a privilege to work with elder Dacayanan and learn so much from him and the amazing missionary he is.

It's kind of a good  feeling being not a "trainee" anymore, which is exciting but at the same time it's kind of scary and exciting.  I'm exited for the new challenges that are a head...I feel like everyday I am surprised by how loving the people are and how lucky I am to be a missionary...it's such a beautiful work and I love it more and more everyday...

Mark finally came to church!!! it was awesome!! he had a place to go right after so we couldn't follow up, but we took him to an FHE on Saturday and we just read the scriptures with this family, and it was so awesome to see him start to make the relationship with members of the ward. and he told us that he was already off coffee which we haven't even taught him the full w.o.w lesson yet we just mentioned that coffee is bad 1 time and he already is trying to stop... its amazing to see. and if he can start coming to church regularly we are very close to offering him a baptismal date, because he really gets and loves the doctrine and already has a testimony of the Book of Mormon. he just has trouble getting to church.

I'm stoked to see what the future holds of the area next few transfers. we have many good prospective people and I'm excited to see the progress of everyone else...

anyways I'm loving the work, and I'm beginning to love the feeling of having to stretch yourself to make things happen in terms of the language. I love the people. I love my comp, I love his work.

Elder Snow

11/18/19

Well howdy yall...now that i know that my dad goes through and corrects all of my mistakes that i put in these letters i am just going to make sure that i literally dont fix anything just cuz i love him so hahahha...

well anyways this week there is really not much to report on again...

Monday- we had a solid P-Day in Rosario and did a bunch of shopping here because they have a really nice store here called Friendship which is way cheaper than our market in Agoo 

Tuesday- we just walked a ton and taught some lessons, I'm getting better at contributing during lessons which is super cool...and that was one of my focuses this week was teaching, 

Wednesday- was kinda hard to focus to be honest, the next day we had a huge mission conference, and it made it kind of hard to focus, but I taught some lessons on my own which was really hard, but kind of sick!!

Thursday- we had mission tour with our area 70 Elder Wakolo, and that was awesome, he basically just gassed us up the whole time and shared a bunch of cool stories. It was awesome and we learned  ton. 

Friday- was a hard day, because we were so hyped after Elder Wakolo but there was not a soul to be found to share the gospel with, which was kinda bummer.

 and the rest of the days were kind the same!! I just ran out of time and we don't have a card reader again, but I promise I will send pics next week.

 

-Elder Snow

11/11/19

hello my beloveds....not much to report this week!! just pushing myself and loving the people!! we are still just trying to get into new areas and find new people to expand our teaching pool...

one thing about the mission I'm learning is that yes even though I'm in the Philippines, sometimes things are just kid a boring!! but that's OK because its the Lords work and that is truly an amazing thing!!

we had big news from Mark this week! we kind of had to stop visiting him less because he could never come to church, but during a just stop by we did this week he said that he already considers him self to be a member of our church which I thought was amazing!! and also he bore his testimony of the Book of Mormon and how reading it has made a big change in his live and how much happier he is. 

 It's just so frustrating with him because I've seen him come so far and now his big last hurdle is him not coming to church, he promised he would do his best to make it so we are always hopeful. 

Anyways that's about it in terms of the work, just growing the teaching pool and showing love...

 in terms of personal growth just being hopeful!!! really doing my best to be a tired, happy missionary!! I love it, I love everything about it... 

but yeah, loving my comp, loving the people, and really really loving the work

-love

Elder Snow

11/04/19

Family and Friends,

this week was great!!! Not really a down side but a little uneventful and I guess it's gonna be like that sometimes hahaha. We had zone conference this week and it was a blast and it was awesome to get to see everyone!!! and we have a new schedule I am loving the new schedule!! Leaving the house by 10 is truly something small that is actually opening my eyes to so so many new people and new areas that we sometimes over looked when we were sort of in our routine leaving the house at 2. it is super awesome to see.

and I have really been trying to show more faith this week! not just in terms of the language but like in terms of always having hope in my heart when I leave the house. its been a real boost to the enthusiasm department. it makes it so much easier to love when you have that little bit of hope in your heart that who ever you talk to could be prepared!!

in terms of our progressing people...it's just frustrating because we have so many people that are very promising but then they can just never get to church which is very important, and its hard to progress much farther when people aren't coming to church. so if you have any suggestions about how to get people to church it could be useful.

anyways that's about all for this week!!
Elder Snow