This week was a really good week. I attended my first zone conference in Palawan. There's a ton of Filipinos here on Palawan then there is on the mainland. So it was really cool seeing and meeting all these new missionaries.
This zone conference we had our conference in the morning and we had a Christmas devotional later in the afternoon. We had a really good discussion about the Doctrine of Jesus Christ and I learned so much about our Savior Jesus Christ.
After our zone conference we had lunch right across the road at this hotel. It was really fun. There was a ton of food and we watched a slideshow of pictures from this last year. After lunch we went back to the chapel and played some games like pictionary and charades, and we ended with each district singing a Christmas song. It was a really good zone conference and it got me excited to celebrate Christmas. It's gonna be a lot different here but I bet it'll be fun.
In my mission right now we have 5 Ap's hahaha It's kinda crazy! 3 of them are actually AP's so they help president with everything. (Elder Ibanez, Elder Berger, and Elder Milne.) But the other two are traveling the mission and are going on exchanges with some of the missionaries here on Palawan and on the mainland for their last transfer here. (Elder Harris and Elder Dial)
The day after zone conference they came to our house to do exchanges with Elder Nimenzo and me. That day I was with Elder Dial. He's from South Jordan Utah and he went to Bingham and he played lacrosse. We got along really well haha.
He's such an awesome missionary. I learned a lot from him about why goals are so important. Before I didn't really have any goals but now I have a couple so I'm gonna try my best to work on those. That day we talked to so many people because one of my goals was to be more willing to talk with everyone because everyone deserves to hear the gospel. Elder Dial helped me out with that, which was really good.
One cool story that happened when I was with Elder Dial. We went to a part of my area I haven't been to yet called San Jose. We were trying to find some families there that haven't been to church in awhile.
The first person we talked to was this old Nanay around 70ish. We asked her if she knew this family and she said no, but she said her daughter was a member and turns out her daughter was the other family we were looking for. That was really cool. After that we tried to talk to Nanay a little more. We figured out her husband just passed away in August. When she was telling us about that she got very emotional and started crying. She told us how much she missed him and how hard it's been without him.
Elder Dial asked her a powerful question. He said, "Nanay do you believe you will see Tatay again?" And she got even more emotional and said yes I hope so. She let us in and let us teach her a little bit. Elder Dial and I talked about The Plan of Salvation with her. The spirit was so strong and it was a touching experience.
I'm having a good time here. Love you all and hope you have a good week. :)
-Elder Espiritu
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| We found these kitties close to our house there was like 20 of them just right in the middle of the road |
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| Elder Seranilla from Chicago. He's Filipino but he grew up in America so were like the same |
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| Shout out to my mom for sending me two Christmas packages (sorry I opened them early) |
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| Zone Conference |
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| Elder Nimenzo, my companion |
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| Elder Larson is a zone leader so we had a car! |
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| This is the transportation here on Palawan they're called multi cabs |
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| Pics from my area |
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| Elder Macarilay and I we knew each other before the mission. We roomed together at this thing at BYU. He's from Bountiful Utah |
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| Elder Panuncio and Elder Berger. They trained Elder Hedman, my trainer |
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