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Week 6 - First in the field

Sept 15th

kumusta everyone!!!! 

wowowowowowowoowowowowowowowow!!!! I AM IN THE FIELD NOW AND ITS WAYYYYY BETTER THAN THE MTC NO JOKE....

FIRST, the people of the Philippines are the most kind and fun and friendly people in the world. its so amazing and inspiring to see people with so little be willing to give you so much and love so much. i love them all... 

there haven't been too many good stories this week!!! I love my companion also he is so amazing. his name is elder Dacayanan and he is from Las Vegas and is a straight guy. he has such a good companion and teaches me so much!!! i know that the Lord was looking out for me as always.

i have been assigned to the agoo zone and it is so so so so beautiful like the perfect mix of miles of rice fields and coast and mountains. its amazing. 

anyways next week should be a lot better of an email because we didn't really do much this week!! i love you all and please pray for the success of the Baguio mission

elder snow

P-Day Activity pictures

Email from his Mission President

Dear Family and Friends,

We were delighted with the arrival of your missionary, Elder Snow, here in the Baguio Mission. He is excited about his mission and enthusiastic about entering the Lord’s service in this area. He has had an orientation session and is now serving in his first assignment with a trainer.

Your missionary is assigned in the Agoo 1A Area in the Agoo Zone. The enclosed map will enable you to locate this area and follow each future transfer. We have also enclosed a photo taken at the Mission Home.

We urge you to write your missionary regularly each week. Include encouraging news of family events and achievements, spiritual experiences and other matters which will bring joy and deeper commitment.  Omit mention of family problems or other matters which can only bring worry or concern.

May I point out that Missionaries serve with an eye single to the Glory of God. This means that their focus is entirely on the work of the ministry and they do this with great intensity.  Please do not mention how much time they have remaining to serve nor special things you may have planned to do with them when they return home as it will only distract their attention from their service to the Lord

This is a wonderful country and your missionary is in for one of the greatest experiences of his life. With your support and encouragement he will mature and progress beyond your expectations. He will develop a great love for the Filipino people. The people here have great love and respect for the missionaries as they strive to teach a better way of life.

We appreciate the opportunity to work with your missionary. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help you or Elder Snow .  We love your missionary and want this mission to be a great experience for your entire family. 

Sincerely,

Bradly A. Oldroyd

President, Philippines Baguio Mission

Week 5

Sept 5th

This week was a solid week!!!! its our last pday in the mtc and man I’m

like so ready to be out in the field! we leave for the field on Tuesday night of next week 

and I’m so stoked. 

this week was hard! staying motivated is so hard when you want to leave the mtc so dang 

bad ahahha. buts still the mtc is amazing and you are fed spiritually all the time. the language

is coming better and the good times keep on rolling. this week was pretty uneventful 

though! we got to go on splits with some of the Tagalog missionaries at the mtc and 

teach their lessons with them and I’ll just say this that the gift of tongues is super 

real! I gave like a 45 min lesson in like 80% Tagalog which was super a good experience. 

one of the high points of this week was we gave elder Darrington a hair cut!! he claimed 

he looked like a q-tip so we faded him up pretty good. it was so funny and he was so 

scared  but it turned out pretty solid! too bad we all have to go get hair cuts today anyways. 

 any who i might not get a chance to email next week because i will miss my p-day in 

the field. but mahal ko kayo lahat!!!

-pag-ibib, 

elder snow 

elder snow 

Week 4

August 28th
whoa... this week was had some of the highest highs and like some of the craziest things i have ever been apart of. 

the first half of the week was insane....ly boring pretty much all we did was language study for like the whole time. except we had a lot of really really good devotionals this week. what we do here is watch recorded devotionals on Sundays and Tuesdays. on Sunday we watched one by elder Holland which was super amazing. one of my favorite quotes came from that devotional. he says

 "buck up- grab your socks, pull them all the way up to your elbows, and GO TO WORK knowing that you can do it. because its true and many many have done it before you" and also 

"take heart in the legions of the faithful"

for those of you on my email list that are thinking about serving missions. don't second guess your self. if you have even an inkling of desire to serve. then go. knowing that this amazing and marvelous work that we have all been invited to participate in. is true and there has never been a more noble of a cause. and that on the journey, you will never ever ever be alone and that you can do it...because there have been so many others before you. and there are so many people that your service will benefit throughout the eternity.

anyways haha. yesterday was soooo exciting!!! we got to go on splits with missionaries from the antipolo mission. my companion was named elder guyos and was a beast. we got started and went to an appointment but that fell through so we knocked doors. the first door we knocked on invited us in and i was pumped!! but was promplty humbled hahaha me and my companion proceeded to be bashed for an hour with out even an opportunity to bear my testimony. it was very humbling and hard. but a good learning experience  we basically only had time for that and then we met some new peeps and placed some pamphlets and then even set up a return appointment

anyways i love you all and i know this gospel is true!! only one more p day in he mtc woot woot!!!

love, elder snow