Just a little love from your fam!

Heyoo

This is in the mission home at zone leaders council. That's elder mcgee on the right and his former companion on the left. Last transfer they had jumpsuits made and were wearing them when president came to their house for interviews. They are some pretty funny dudes. haha
Happy B-Day to me. Our celebration was pretty lame but memoral. I blew out candles a smashed cupcake that brittany sent me.
I was trying to show my unexpressable joy upon recieving so mush love and goodness. American food is a coveted thing amongst the forieng missionaries so i was everyone's best friend for a while there.
That is balot my friends. I made a failing attempt at swallowing that half developed duck egg. E. McGee loves balot. The taiste in reality is not that bad, but just looking at the thing makes me puke a little bit.
These are the kids and neighboors of one of our investigators, sister shirley. Cute little pinoys if i do say myself.

Goodbye Camalaniugan

This is the baptismal service the saturday before i got transfered. The two wee-boppers are just 8 year old member's kids. The picture below is of Brother Gonzaga. (He is the former gambling lord who has diabetes and we gave a bap date to on our first appt.)
Laquindanum Family. I got word that they have been interviewed and are going to be baptized this saturday the 18th. We worked with that family for a very long time. Almost my whole three transfers there. Too bad I wont be there for their big day.

Urubio family. If you can get past the fact sister is breastfeeding in the picture you will notice she looks to have been shedding some tears. That was tender good bye. Im in love with her kids. They got baptized the saturday after i left.
E. Liwanag and I posing before I headed out of Cagayan and onto Ilokos Norte.

Love from OHIO

This is the boring one. We thought we were funny cause we only know one chord on the guitar....but watching it back, it's not as funny as we thought. Oh well.

Happy Birthday anyway! Lots of Love!!

Chelsea & Jerr....sorry Elliot was in bed when we made this, but he loves you too!

More LOVE FROM OHIO

This is the exciting one! Happy Birthday! We love you.

ps: just in case you don't have sound where you are we threw in actions for your visual enjoyment :)

Blowin' Out The Candle!

Hey Dies, you will need to turn your volume up for these videos. We hope you enjoy them!

Happy Birthday To You!!!

Happy Birthday Derek!!!

We had a birthday party to celebrate your birthday Dies! I hope you know how loved you are!

Grams and Gramps came over and ate dinner and then watched the boys play in the backyard.
Tyrali's new braces! Isn't she cute.
The King family, minus Max!
Me, TJ, and my cute Hayden bug.
Carter hit homeruns all day!

He is growing his hair out, what do you think?
Dad loves you!
This is Max, and his best friend TY!



Cupcakes in your honor.
Carter and Kenzie made this poster for you.

Grams, and her best friend Hayden.



We sure do love you Dies. We hope you had a great Birthday. Thanks for being such a great example to all of us.
XOXOXO, Us

Who's Toes Are Those!!!

Here's a fun game! Can you guess who's feet each one of these are? Whitney wouldn't participate for fear of breaking the camera with the webs! :)

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Love you! :)

just a few

That's how many people can fit in Bro. Arteta's jeepni. Investigators and members alike. District conference was a good experience.
Guwapo! that is bro laquindanum you can see over elder liwanag's left sholder.

They keep coming

Dont throw up! Thats the best attempt filippino medical has at fixing a broken ankle. Grabi Talaga!
That's elder asuro. He had a head ache one night and i gave him some ibuprofen. He had an allergic reaction and we ended up going to the hospitle. Haha good memories! His face looks way better here than it did at its worst point. It was totally will smith style in hitch. Ah, still miss the old Asuronaiter.
Community Service Project back in the day. Little late on the postage. Good times.
One of our investigators. She has a handicapped little girl and they are so sweet. Couldnt get baptized because she is not yet married to her husband who is living in california. Shucks!
Tatay Laquindanum. Haha- they fed us this 90 course meal early today before coming to aparri. So kind. Im going to miss the philippino food some day. Masarap!

pics of yours truly

Bro. Pedro Binaroa Barillos "Eddie." What a guy for real. I have probably learned more from him by far than I have any other investigator thus far on my mission. Great example of humility and gratitude. I love Bro. Eddie in unexplainable ways.
Bro. Eddie and I waiting in the church before changing into our white duds on one of the best days of his life.
This is Tatay Tacdol. He is officially 100 years old and still alive. Pure Ilokano and formerly a die hard catholic. He prays aloud in his room for approximately 2 hours every night before going to bed. We asked him if he wanted to be baptized (his daughter in law and grandkids are members) and at first he was all for it. But when we told him about the not drinking coffee part, i think he began to think our church is of the devil. He said coffee is the only thing that has kept him alive for all these years. He is way funny. He cant hear worth a lick so anytime we attempt to form an Ilokano phrase it is more like we are shouting at the top of our lungs into the ear of this innocent little old man. I hope hes still around at the end of the mish so i can introduce you moma.
Just proof that we really do do all of our laundry by hand in the back of our house. Our laundering facilities are complete with water pump, bucket, soup, scrubber board, and small chair for the tall americano.
Another guy we met that I cant believe is still alive. When he saw me, being not of filippino decent on our way to aparri, it triggered a million memories from his days serving in world war 2. The rest of the 30 min ride consisted of him telling me story after story of how his life was spared although coming close to death on more that one occasion. He told me he was thankful god had blessed him and was greatfull we were sharing his word to the people in his country. We mad good friends. Im a sucker for the old tatays.

Word!

Spider the size of my face!
Elder Asuro and I the day he flew to aspen and out of my life. No worries, I'm sure we'll meet again.
Mylene Columna and Christopher Lozano!
Tolento Family. They are moving up in the most favorite family i have ever met category. They are awesome. They live on the second floor of this building and have this sweet view of the whole camalaniugan. Coconut trees and rice fields forever. Its beautiful. They only have free time at night and have no electricity so we teach them by candlelight. Pretty stellar! They have a baptismal date for Aug 30th.
This pic was just taken earlier this morning as we were riding a trike to the computer shop. You would love the forms of transpertation we roll with here in p-country. Ill try to take a few more pics to give you an idea of how we get around.