A note we received from President and Sister Guanzon through Facebook: There is a typhoon approaching Legazpi. We want to notify the parents and families so they will not worry. "All missionaries were evacuated specifically those whose apartments that are near the sea. We are all safe." The missionaries in Legazpi will be moved to either the mission home or to the church for a few days. Sister Guanzon is out getting groceries and supplies. If your missionaries are emailing you, be sure to tell them to obey the evacuation and do exactly like they are asked to do.
A private note from Elder Baker to let us know he was safe: Hello!! I don't know if you know about the super typhoon that is here right now, but I just want to let you know I'm safe. I came to Legazpi yesterday. We got on the last boat for Legazpi cause right after, they shut down the boats because of the storm! One of the guys on Masbate is supposed to leave to go home too, so he's trying to get here but probably won't for a couple days!! I'll probably be here until Saturday or Sunday!!
Sooo right now we are under like signal 5 or something for a danger of a super typhoon!! And it's supposed to be like absolutely crazy strong!! So if everyone could PLEASE SEND ALL YOUR PRAYERS TO THE PEOPLE HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES!! Well that's the physical super typhoon... the emotional typhoon is that I'm going to be training!! From trainee to trainer! I can barely even speak Tagalog!! It's gonna be a real test of my faith and patience!! Well Elder Irabon had his last week in the mission field this week!! And it was a pretty crazy week because he's the branch president we were trying to get the whole ward ready to be handed over to the new guy and we had to throw a christmas party of course!! And that was really stressful to find enough food for everyone!! We ended up with like 50 pounds of adobo!! It still wasn't enough!! We had 150 people show up to our party and the 4 moms that were dishing out the food didn't get to eat any!! We were only expecting to have 100 people!! It was great tho to have sooo many less active members and investigators show up!! And then our attendance at church the next day jumped up to 95!! We went from 60 to 95!! in one week!! Let's hope we can keep it that steady and keep growing and eventually we're gonna have a ward in mobo!!! Also we're getting 2 more missionaries moving into our apartment this transfer!! So our area is gonna be split!! Which will really help the branch grow!!
PLEASE!!! SEND YOUR PRAYERS TO THE PEOPLE HERE!! THAT'S WHATS GONNA HELP THEM STAY THE MOST SAFE AND MAYBE THEIR HEARTS WILL BE OPENED TO OUR MESSAGE!!
LOVE ELDER BAKER
HAKUNA MATATA!!
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