3 Weeks of great stories and pictures from Elder Zesiger

I've gotten so behind in posting Elder Zesiger's letters! But I think a new baby is a good excuse!

Letters to Mom...

April 23rd

I'm super glad that I got your packages today, it was perfect timing.  Yesterday this was my food:

- Ramen

- an egg

- a bag of popcorn

- a week old half chocolate pancake i found in the fridge

I almost died, so I was glad to find reinforcements today in the office! hahaha

I love you so much mom, you should try fasting for something awesome to happen and watch, I never really had a testimony of fasting either until recently, but now I do.  (I told him that I struggle with my testimony of fasting :))

April 16th (Easter Sunday)

I gained a testimony of fasting earlier in the week.  One sister investigator is doing amazing and reads like 20 chapters of the Book of Mormon everyday, but her husband  was kind of a problem before cuz he just didn't want to get married or for any change at all to happen in their lives.  So, last fast Sunday, she fasted with us that he would have his heart softened and that he would see the light in our message.  He then immediately went to conference and I think I emailed you that last week, but this week, the change was even bigger.  He now lives the word of wisdom, reads the Book of Mormon everyday, and also wants to get married.  The only thing that he is still having a hard time with is church because of his work, but I'm sure that will change soon too.  It was the first miracle I can remember ever seeing from fasting, I emailed dad about one that we tried again, I don't know what will happen yet, but I trust that Heavenly Father will do what's best.

I am going to Palawan tomorrow, so my life is pretty far from boring haha.  I love you mom, I'm grateful for you, Have a great week!

Elder Zesiger

April 9th 

( I asked him what he would like in a package.....) Shaving cream and deodorant would be nice to have. and sour candy like kazoozles and sour brite eggs.  We did have a baptism on Saturday, how did you know?  thanks for the pictures haha they are always awesome to see!  Calvin and I have different problems haha no matter how much I work out I cant get bigger! haha and now I only work out like maybe once a week since we are always doing stuff in the mornings.

Last night, our car battery failed, so I learned how to get a battery out and now it is charging at a shop.  At conference, Elder Billarina and I were about falling a sleep and missionaries kept noticing, they didn't have a car to worry about all night haha.  

I'll send you some pictures from this birthday party we went to.  We are teaching this young mom named Danica who will be baptized in a couple of week and we went to her daughters birthday party last night.  I got to see all my boni 6 friends at conference.  Jonas was there and his mission papers are in the area office so he'll know pretty soon!

Well I'm still kind of tired, so I can't think of much, but I love you.  You are the best mom ever.  Oh here you go, one funny tradition/ superstition here is that nanays who just gave birth cannot go in air conditioning for at least 2 weeks after or they will get deathly ill.  You need to do a ritual shower with a banana leaf everyday for a couple weeks so that you can be healthy.  Just to let you know haha.

Elder Zesiger

Letters to Dad....

April 23rd

 Hey dad, I'm doing good, this week was awesome!  We spent Tuesday to Friday in Palawan and it was awesome!  Sister (investigator) is doing good, she came to church again this week with all three of her kids and payed fast offerings again just because she wanted to haha.  She is reading the Book of Mormon like crazy and is already in the middle of 2 Nephi after about a week.

The coolest miracle of this week happened Saturday night- Sunday.  Saturday night we oymed this guy names "D" and invited him to church, but we didn't really think that anything would happen.  The next morning, we found him by himself in the church about 30 mins early sitting on the couch waiting for us!  He didn't know how to get there, but he said he would and he wanted to be honest, so he asked around where the Mormons were and he made it!  I sat by him throughout the meeting and got to know him.  He is 18 and has 6 brothers and sisters.  When he was little, his dad was put in prison and his mom cheated on him and got pregnant with another guy.  His parents are together and both at home now, but they do drugs together.  He lives in this tiny 2 ft by 3 ft wood house.  Because of that, the kids were affected too.  The oldest is 23 and a bakla, the next oldest got pregnant when she was pretty young too.  D is the 3rd and he is a lot different.   

After church at about 6pm we went to his house and taught him for the first time.  We had given him a pamphlet and a Book of Mormon at church before he went home.  As we started the lesson, we asked him how he was and he said that he had finished the whole pamphlet and a couple chapters of the Book of Mormon too.  It was a great lesson and at the end, he accepted a baptismal date.  As we were about to leave, he asked if he could come with us, we said "ok".  So he came and worked with us until the end of the day!  He said that he really wants to go on a mission now!  He is awesome!

Haha all these pictures are funny.  I love you guys.  You are the best family. I'll send you some more pictures.  Did you know a guy is high school named Mark Johnson?  His son is in the mission.

April 16th 

 I just read your promise with the $1000 dollars ( Jeff tried to bribe Caden to play football) to everyone here in the office and they laughed.  All the "important" things at home don't seem that important haha.  When i was at home, those things felt like the most important things in the world, but it's crazy when you meet people here that have really broken lives and real problems.  Do you know what I mean?  I don't know... haha

Tomorrow we fly to Palawan, we'll be there for 4 days to teach at a couple zone conferences and to do some cool stuff too called the butterfly garden and the crocodile farm!  Lately I've been getting like public speaker training.  It's kinda cool.  Over 2 weeks I've spoken in 5 congregations including zone conferences and church and all together it's like 350 people!  It's been super fun and I feel like I'm getting better at it with the practice.

Do you remember the story I told you of when we were fasting and then we taught that family and they fed us?  Well there's a lot more to the story now.  The husband decided that he didn't want to listen to us after like the 2nd lesson so we've just been teaching the wife, with her 3 little kids.  She says that she knows our message to be true and loves the Book of Mormon.  We were teaching her the plan of salvation a couple days ago and got to the part where we told her that she needs to endure to the end.  Then she asked us a question that was probably one of the hardest questions I've ever been asked in my life.  She told us about some troubles she is having and I made her a promise that if she would fast, come to church, and pay her fast offerings, then a miracle would happen and everything would be ok.  We had to teach her what fasting was because she is brand new, she had also never been to church before, but we fasted with her. 

She fasted and came to church yesterday with all 3 of her little kids, ages 7, 4, and 2.  I have been praying like crazy that Heavenly Father will recognize my promise and bless her with a miracle, because she kept her side of the bargain.  We will go and visit her later tonight, but i don't know what will happen.

Just so you know, I've known that release date (October 18th) for like a year now, I just didn't want you to start a count down haha.  What is your great news about the trans am?  I love you dad

Elder Zesiger 

April 9th 

Haha that's awesome!  I forgot that you broke your leg on your mission haha.  This week was awesome again.  General conference was at my old chapel back when I was in Boni 6.  This kid came up to me and said "Hi Elder Zesiger!"  It took me a little bit to remember him, cuz he looked kind of different.  But it was Jaybert, a kid that I had taught and ended up getting baptized 2 weeks after I got transferred to Santa Mesa!  He is super active and has a lot of friends at church haha it was cool.

One of our investigators named G is doing awesome and is reading like 20 chapters of the Book of Mormon every night!  She went to all 10 hours of conference and is ready to be baptized except her husband J is a little slower and had never come to church.  They aren't married yet so they have to be before either of them get baptized.  We were praying so hard that J would be able to go to conference, but we weren't sure because it was far and he had work, but he ended up coming anyway!  Then that Elder Costa ended up giving his talk and it seemed like he was talking directly to J!  It was awesome.  I really think that he is going to start progressing a lot more now and then they can both be baptized.

Kate looks awesome!  I heard from Caden that you haven't started working on the trans am yet.  If you were an investigator I would have dropped you by now haha.  I know that many blessings will come into your life from keeping commitments and working on the trans am.  hahaha.  I love you dad, i'll send more miracles to the others.

Elder Zesiger

Letter to Caden...

Hey Caden, here summer vacation just started for all of the kids.  Here is a funny story.  This week we found an arabian guy, so we went into his tiny house to teach him.  It was big enough for his bed and our legs to hang off the bed and nothing else.  He shut the door and we were trapped.  We soon realized that he was super drunk and we were stuck in there for a little bit as he told us about his birds, the circus, old testiment prophets, his chicks, and his favorite movies.  After about 30 minutes, we finally escaped.  His name was Elijah haha.

Well, on Saturday I watched How to Train Your Dragon 2, it is amazing!  I also noticed something weird about myself, I can't watch movies any more without finding like weird gospel message woven into the story line.  Listen to this Caden and learn of me.  Drago Bludvist is introduced to us in a grand council.  He presents a plan to save them all, if they will bow down and worship him, they refuse and there is a war.  His plan later in the movie is to take away agency of others to accomplish his will.  Hiccup on the other hand does not seek power, but to tear it down.  Sound familiar?  hahahaha

I'll send you pictures on me in Palawan next week to prove I still exist haha.

Finally, I got humble and prayed to Heavenly Father.

Letter to Mom...

haha I love you so much mom.  Kate looks awesome!  You are the best.  I had another awesome week this week.  I sent the coolest miracle to Dad, but I have a cool one for you too.  I was at MLC which is like the leadership council with all of the zone leaders and sister training leaders and I had to teach them.  Since we are really busy all the time, I hadn't prepared anything, but I had to teach them about how to use family home evening as a missionary tool.  I just stood up and started going and it ended up being the best lesson in front of a group that I think I've ever taught!  It was cool it was like Heavenly Father knew that they had to learn these things to help the mission so He just helped me out.

We are seeing a lot of miracles in our area.  It is kind of like Santa Mesa was, no one has been baptized here in like a year but we have one coming up this Saturday!  and the next couple weeks hopefully!  I love being here.  

Dad sent me this cool thing about my name which pretty much says that I can be lazy or awesome and I am super grateful to you that you got me out here on a mission.  you were the one who packed me and did all the papers and helped me with the ticket desk, all I did was reluctantly leave haha.  I am so grateful to have you as a mom.  I'm excited to see you and Kate and everyone on mother's Day, but also not excited haha.  I'll email more stories to others, I love you mom.

Elder Zesiger

Letter to Dad...

Haha that's awesome!  Thanks for the story and the name thing!  Kate looks awesome and it's cool that you used Alta (her middle name).  I am super glad that mom made me go on a mission before college or other stuff cuz I would've blown it haha.  I often think of what my life would be like right now if I didn't go on a mission and I don't think that it would be very good.  I'm super happy that I came here, I love these people.

I've got a lot of cool stories again for this week.  Heavenly Father taught me one of the best lessons ever last night.  Lately we've been kind of successful finding people and stuff and I think that we have not been relying on Him as much as we should.  We were fasting yesterday and excited for an awesome day with lots of appointments as usual, but every appointment fell through.  For 7 appointments and like 4 hours, we just got rejected and rejected.  It's called getting punted.  It happens to most people a lot, but this was one of my first times so it was hard.  By the time 7 pm rolled around, it was almost time to go home to do reports and I felt like a complete failure.  We were supposed to be the best examples I thought, this doesn't happen to us!  Finally I got humble and prayed to Heavenly Father.  I told Him that we were doing our best, but weren't good enough to do this work.  I told Him that we had done all we could do and that we needed His help.  Just then, a thought came into my head that we needed to go back to this guy that we had oymed on the street on Friday night.  He seemed ok,, but nothing special, but we had no other ideas, so we went.

When we got there, he let us into his house and we taught his wife and kids.  It was amazing and they were really interested and are excited for us to come back.  And then, just to prove that Heavenly Father was looking out for us, as we were about to leave, they offered us dinner.  We had just met them haha but they fed us an amazing meal of fried talapia and rice, they were a really poor family.  I left that house super grateful to my Heavenly Father.

Later that night, when I was following up the zone leaders, some of them were discouraged and I was able to share that story with them and the spirit was super strong in those calls too!  I love being a missionary haha, especially when it gets hard.

Haha I love you guys, I'm excited to see Kate, but also not excited cuz that'll mean that I've only got 5 months left...

Have a great day

Elder Zesiger

Letter to Shelby...

I had lots of cool experiences this week kaibigan.  On Wednesday night, Elder Fawson and Elder Cortez flew over from Palawan to stay with us before mlc.  Elder Fawson worked with me and I thought that I had the day totally figured out.  I had an awesome plan with lots of good people, but Heavenly Father had a better one.  My plan totally failed,and no one was home.  I just asked Elder Fawson who he knew because 14 months ago he was in this area.  He brought us to this investigator who was almost baptized 14 months ago, but she moved to the province right before, so she never was.  

We were able to teach her and during the lesson, we asked her why she thought God would sent Elder Fawson back at this time.  She said that it was because she should continue where she left off and be baptized!  It was awesome haha.

Heavenly Father is working wonders in our area!

From Coby's letter....

Aright buddy I've got a story for you.  One of our investigators, Geralyn, had a cool dream that I believe was a message from our Heavenly Father to help her along with her conversion.

She dreamed that she was standing on the bank of a river with really fast water.  On the other side of the river, i was standing there with my companion and all of Geralyn's ward friends.  She knew that she had to get across so that she could be happy with us.  Her husband was on the side with her and she knew that she had to bring him with her across.

She interpreted her dream to mean baptism and marriage and she is super excited and committed to be baptized now!  Heavenly Father is working wonders in our area!

Mom's letter....

I have a cool miracle for you.

I was in the temple again for the first time since June with all of the going home missionaries, and I was once again praying for an experience or a feeling so that I could  have a stronger testimony of temples.  Kind of what we talked about a long time ago if you remember.  Nothing really happened other than a small feeling of peace and once again, I was kind of bummed because I have felt way stronger than that in little houses made out of garbage, why could I not feel it in the temple of the Lord.  Those were kind of my thoughts. 

At the end of the day, President was giving his opening remarks for the going home testimony meeting and he said that he had prayed to know of what to speak of and he felt that he must speak about temples.  He testified of how they had helped him in his life and how he receives power every time he goes.  As he closed, he said that he never does that for going home activities, but that he just thought that he should.  I know that it was an answer from Heavenly Father.  It might not have been time for me to have an awesome experience in the temple, but I think that God set that up to let me know that He heard my prayer and will answer it when I really need it.  It was awesome!

I love you mom, thanks for making a shrine to me, that way the baby might at least recognize me haha, maybe you can put her crib in front of it. hahaha.   I love you so much and I am grateful that you are my mom.

Letter to Dad....

This week was awesome.  A lot of miracles happened in our area.  We got to see 7 missionaries die (go home) and it was super spiritual.  One, Sister Savea had a crazy experience.  On February 26, she got to Skype her father who was dying of cancer.  He was not a member but she was able to teach him the plan of salvation over Skype.  He died the next day.  Over the last 2 weeks of her mission, she was able to teach almost all of the 40 principles from preach my gospel and she said that she felt her dad's presence with her in all of them.  Before she left on her mission, when she was set apart, she was promised that her father would join the church because of her example and her family, like the ones she would come to teach would become an eternal one.  She said that it did not happen in the way she expected, but she knows that her family will be together forever and that the gospel is true.  It was amazing to hear.

I am super grateful for you guys.  I'm glad that you did send me here and I am super glad that you went too to be an example to me.  I am glad that I endured the first couple months when it sucked so that I can experience everyday now the miracles of the Lord.

A lot of other miracles happened, but I'll email them to the others, but I just thought that this one fit in with what you emailed to me.  

Letter to Caden....

I have a cool story for you.  One of the girls that we are teaching and will be baptized later in April, Danica, told us a cool story about her and her sister, who we are also teaching.  After she accepted a baptismal date, she told us that her sister, Karen, had been praying one night a couple of weeks ago, asking God which church was true.  The next day, we knocked on her door and taught her and her husband.  We had also prayed to know who was prepared for us to teach that night and then climbed up to the 4th floor of this building we had never been to and knocked on her door.  She later told her sister Danica, so she prayed too that we could come to her.  The next day, we showed up at door and taught her.  We didn't even know that they were sisters until about a week later and until a couple of days ago, we never knew this awesome story about how we were led to them!

I know that Heavenly Father prepares people and He leads us to them if we will ask.  He will do the same thing for you in your mission.

Some great pictures on Palawan and in the Mission home.

Letter to Mom....

This week was really fun and really weird.  I have a lot of pictures for you.  We went to Palawan again to teach at zone conference and we spent one day doing the underground river!  It was super awesome mom.  You go into this river through a cave and there are just 500 bats above your head at all times!  It's super cool.  I also taught a couple classes in a bamboo hut on the ocean.

When we got back, we stayed in the mission home for 2 nights while President was gone.  I had cheese chips and salsa for lunch and cinnamon toast crunch for breakfast!  I also had my first hot shower in 17 months!  It was crazy!

As I was in a boat, sailing across the ocean in the most beautiful place I've ever been.  I had a cool moment of prayer.  I just felt super blessed and was amazed how everything has worked out for me.  I was so bummed how everyone else in the mission got to go serve in paradise except for me and that I just had to stay in Manila all the time surrounded by smog and garbage.  But as I zoomed across the light blue ocean, surrounded by cliffs, watching the monkeys sit on the beach, I realized how much I actually have and how amazing my life and mission have been.  I thanked Heavenly Father, it was cool.

I also got to see Elder Davis since he's assigned there right now, he's doing great.  The other crazy thing that I noticed was once I was done with my little heavenly adventure to Palawan and American food and hot showers, all I wanted to do was go back out to our area in Makati and teach haha, that is where the fun actually is.

I love you mom, 

Elder Zesiger

Teaching a zone conference on Palawan

Elder Zesiger and Elder Davis

Letter to Dad...

Ok.  My week was kind of weird haha it didn't really feel like a mission.  We spent half of it in Palawan and the other half living in the mission home, I got a couple hot showers, so it felt weird to go back home and have a freezing shower this morning haha.  But through all of it, when I was in paradise, the best part of the week was being able to come back to Makati and teach our investigators.

We found another cool lady this week named Jhei.  Her family is kind of interesting.  She is like 40 but already a grandma and the baby's great great grandma is 80 and still lives with them in the house.  So they have been getting pregnant early for generations haha.  She wouldn't let us in her house cuz she thought we would bug her family, so we just taught her on the street next to her balut stand.  As we started, she just said that before we shared, she wanted to know what we could do to "Mahikayat" you can translate that but it pretty much means to convince her, that Catholicism was wrong and why she should join our church.  We had a member with us and we asked her what happened to her.  She shared how she how she felt that it was true by the spirit because of the things she did, like reading and praying.  Jhei started to cry, she said that her life has been so hard, that all of her three children have different dads and that she has been a single mother now for 7 years and it's really hard.  We gave her a Book of Mormon and promised that it will help her.

As we left we asked when we could come back and she said anytime, she then offered that next time she would make space for us in her house so that she could listen better, an idea that she had adamantly rejected 30 minutes earlier haha.  Our message is true.

Can you send me another cool story from your mission, they're my favorite and I remember them.  I love you dad

Elder Zesiger

PS that picture of bubba is cool

PS again: WORK ON THE TRANS AM

haha

I had a cool experience this week about seeing Heavenly Father's control over the work and it increased my trust in him.

Letter to Mom...

That's so crazy!  I'll finally get to say that we are "lima magkakapatid" (5 siblings) intead of "maglilima magkakapatid" (almost or becoming 5 siblings)!!! haha. I love you Mom, thanks for all you do for me.  I don't know what will happen with my eye, it attacks a lot, but I'm ok.  I did get the journal and it is awesome!  You did great!  It was just in time too cuz when I got it I was on the last page of the big black one.

Here is another cool experience that happened this week:  We were teaching this one lady at the top of this giant tower building thing, and she was ok, but one day we oymed her neighbor, Danica.  Apparently, Danica had read the pamphlet that we left with the other girl and knew that it was true and really wanted to know more!  That's our job!  We only taught her once and then she went to church yesterday!  We are really excited about her, but it was just another cool testimony that Heavenly Father is preparing people for us to teach.

I love you mom thanks for the amazing email today, I did know that kid who died.  I'll be praying for you too.

Elder Zesiger

Letter to Coby...

ok I've got a story for you, it's defiantly your turn.  One night, we were walking and all of the sudden this super drunk guy stopped us and started yelling at us to make his wife give him a gun.  Apparently, he was a police officer, he got his license out and showed us.  But since he was so drunk, his wife had taken it and he wanted it really bad.  He kept trying to get us to help him look for it in his house, but since drunk people aren't very fast, we got out of there haha.

Letter to Dad...

I had a cool experience this week about seeing Heavenly Father's control over the work and it increased my trust in him.  We had an appointment with this guy named JR at 4pm, so we started to walk to his house and on the way, we felt prompted to talk to these girls, so we did.  One of them ended up being a less active member that was baptized in 2014 and was here in Makati for about a month visiting.  She hadn't been to church for about a year, so we shared a short message with her and left.  She ended up coming to church in our ward on Sunday.  Then we resumed our journey, about 4:30 now, and we felt like we needed to talk to another guy.  After talking for a couple minutes, he let us teach him, but it was a trap.  He was just a member of Dating Daan which is a church here that just likes to bash, so we were stuck there for a while and when we finally escaped, it was 5:30pm!  We hurried over to JR and were surprised to find him on the way, walking back home from the market carrying stuff to make dinner.  We taught him and it was an amazingly spiritual lesson and he made a lot of progress.

I thought it was cool because of the way that God set it up.  If we would have come any sooner, he would have been at the market and we would have probably just gone another day and missed the spiritual opportunity.   If we would have gone any later, he would have been eating with his family and it wouldn't have worked either.  But everything worked perfectly because Heavenly Father knows what He's doing and because He loves JR.  It was awesome.

Few words but lots of PICTURES!

Letter to Dad...

We still get to procelyte, we just work about half the week, cuz there are a lot of meetings.  I forgot my journal but the spiritual experience that I remember is from MLC (mission leader conference).  It was my first one as an assistant and it was cool to see all the zone leaders and sister training leaders from the front.  We split into groups and did a practice teaching about asking questions.  Since we were able to set it up, I used the experience of the Maglaque family from Santa Mesa.  Their baby died about a week before we started to teach them.  The missionaries didn't know the situation and they had to figure it out.  It turned out awesome.  President came and watched our groups and it was like the most spiritual experience ever!  The missionaries who were in it all started crying and then after, one stood up and testified that the gospel was true, like a movie.  Then President was like "isn't it amazing that how strong you can feel the Spirit even in a practice teaching? It's all true..."  It was awesome.

Next week I'll remember my journal, I love you dad

Elder Zesiger

Letter to Mom....

haha thanks for the pictures mom, but I dont need a pregnant selfie every week haha.  This week was pretty cool, but I'm kinda tired and I cant really remember any of it, my journal is at home.  I haven't gotten the package yet (with a new journal in it) , but hopefully it'll get here fast cuz I've only got 3 pages left in my journal.

For p day, we went to this place called Ocean Park which was cool, it is like a Sea World kind of place with sharks and stuff.  I was petting some sting rays but then the sting ray lady got in an argument with us cuz she was super baptist and wanted to know the exact date that we accepted Jesus in our hearts and were saved haha, we tried to explain that we need to do that everyday and endure to the end, but she wouldn't listen so we left.

Don't worry mom, next week I'll bring my journal so I can remember what to write better.  

I love you 

Elder Zesiger

Letter to Dad...

Palawan is the coolest and I can't wait to go back, I think it's cool how Heavenly Father answered my prayers and still let me go there  I'll try to send some pictures later on tonight because I forgot my cord at home.  But dad, I'm kinda addicted to having a laptop now and I think that we should start a tradition that when the missionaries come home and go to college, they should get a lap top, I think that would make them happy.  haha

Elder Bednar came to our mission and it was super awesome!  I got to sit right behind him up on the stand.  It was super cool to see the whole mission, even Palawan all together from up on the stand too.  He focused mostly on being an agent.  How we should never make ourselves into objects but always know who we are and always have control of it.  When he bore testimony of Jesus Christ, it was crazy.  It was one of the strongest spirits that I have ever felt in my life.  

Zone conference in Palawan yesterday was cool too.  President was sharing about listening and he told a story that reminded me of you.  He said that he  was being interviewed one time by this lady to see if he was be able to manage her portfolio and he said that she talked so much that he maybe only said about 5 words.  At the end of the interview, his company was chosen because she "liked what he did", even though she didn't even know what his company did, besides listening haha.  That is super awesome about Bishop.  How did Landon do as our home teacher haha that sounds awesome.  

You should read the talk called "Becoming Men and Women of integrity" by Tad R Callister it's awesome, I read it on the plane.

I love you dad,

Elder Zesiger

Manila Mission With Elder and Sister Bednar. Elder Zesiger is on the back row.

P.S. guess what I missed out on today.  Apparently, at the Puerto Princessa house, they have a hot shower, but I woke up really early and got showered first and apparently used the wrong one!  When they told me I was already dressed and I almost got undressed just to try it haha.  I'll have to do it next time!

Letter to Mom....

Yep, I went to Palawan, it was awesome!  El Nido is cool and it is one of the places we will be going.  I met a ton of cool people in the airport, a couple from Denmark and a lot from Australia and England.  But hardly any Americans go to the Philippines cuz they just go to Hawaii.  It was super fun teaching the zone conference too.  I only got to work a couple hours there with the zone leaders on an exchange, but it was super fun!  

It is mostly dirt roads, but a couple times we just journeyed into the jungle.  It was super dark and one time when we were in the jungle part with just a little path and surrounded by trees on all sides, we heard some dogs barking.  So the elder that I was with told me to pick up a stick and some rocks and then we saw this small pack of dogs that I guess always chases the missionaries around.  It was crazy!  They wanted to come at us, but we just pointed the sticks at them and kept pump faking them with rocks and they left us alone.  It was kind of scary still though haha, but it is fun to think about now. 

At the end of the day, we bought like 11 fish for $3 and went home and fried them, then this morning, we flew back home and now I'm just in the mission office again haha.

But in a couple weeks we are going back and this time we'll go to Narra which is a lot more jungley and we'll also do the underground river!

It was also super cool when Elder Bednar came, but I'll put that in dad's email probably.

I love you so much mom,

look up Boracay, Coron, El Nido, Honda beach, crocodile farms, Rizal Park, Inra Muros,and strawberry fields so we can go there.