Subject line translated: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
HELLO FAMILY AND FRIENDS! It’s soo good to be back and to be able to
see how all of your Christmas and New Years has been!! I hope everyone had a
great time this year!! Cause I definitely had a Christmas that I will never
forget!! So I’ll give you guys a quick lil overview of what has happened these
last 2 weeks!
So last week we had CHRISTMAS PARTIES EVERYDAY HAHAHA! The only day
we didn’t have a party was on Tuesday. So we had a ton of fun that week
and a lot of FOOD HAHAHAHA! We had our group Christmas party on Wednesday up in
Lomacao and that was really fun. I think we had more investigators come than we
did members haha so we found a lot of new people to teach! But it was just a
simple party, we had some presentations and some spiritual lessons and then
food and then karaoke! haha FILIPINOS LOVE KARAOKE! HAHAHA they sang karaoke
until 2 am! We had left around 7 but they kept going till 2 am hahaha! Then the
next day we had our ward Christmas party and it was sooo much fun, something
I’ll never forget! I remember after doing our missionary presentation at
the party and going and sitting down and right after that I just felt sooo
sad... I was so sad. That that was my last Christmas here in the Philippines!
Last Christmas on the mission... there is just something that makes Christmas
soo special while out here on the mission! and I’m gonna miss it!
So that was the parties then came Christmas day. Christmas day
was soo fun because it was a Sunday and soo spiritual! I don’t know if
this is how it is in America, but out here if Christmas is a Sunday they only
have sacrament... so that was weird! But then came Sunday night... the night of
TYPHOON NINA! hahaha We had a super typhoon the night of Christmas! It was the
strongest typhoon I have been in out here on the mission! It started to get
really strong around 9:30 or 10 but we went out at like 9 and it was strong.
The wind and rain was coming down hard!! After we went back inside I sat
outside on our little balcony and watched the trees outside and I actually
watched a coconut tree fall down from the wind! That was crazy! But after it
started to die down I went to sleep and then woke up the next morning and the
streets were just filled with leaves and branches! Almost every single banana
tree out here fell over and alot of coconut trees fell down! That
morning...supposed to be p-day, we had a csp at a members house cutting a tree
in pieces that fell down on their house, and then that night had dinner at our
bishops house. We didn’t really get a p-day that day cause there wasn’t any electricity!
So sorry if I didn’t reply to your emails! haha But then we had a brown out
this WHOLE entire week! We just barely got power back on Saturday night for New
Years and then it died again on Sunday and now it’s back on for now... who
knows when it will die again!! haha
This whole entire week has just been service projects in the
morning, working a little in the afternoon then studies at night cause there’s
no power! Actually earlier this morning we got to build a member a new house!!
Her house was completely gone after the storm and alot of the members came out
to help us build them a new house!! Love the member support out here! All
I ask is just pray for the people out here to recover quickly from the storm!
Thankfully not many people died! But I’m just thankful I made it thru
another storm hahaha! Up next is living thru a volcano eruption!! Hopefully I
get to see that before I leave!!
I LOVE ALL OF YOU SOO MUCH I HOPE YOU ALL HAD A BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS
AND NEW YEAR AND I HOPE ALL OF YOU GUYS HAVE A GREAT 2017!!
Fun quote I found “When you come out of this storm you won’t be the
same person you were when you went in…that's what this storms all
about"
I know each and every one of us have our own storms! But don’t
forget that God has a plan for each of us! We will all learn something from our
individual "storms" and come out stronger and more ready for the next
storms that are to come!
LOVE ELDER BAKER
HAKUNA MATATA!!
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