TIME FLIES WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN!! -WEEK 83

MARAY NA HAPON PO SA INDONG GABOS!! 

Soo it’s been another GREAT WEEK! that flew by... why is it that when you’re having soo much fun that time just seems to be gone as fast as a box of krispy kreme donuts!! (I’m having depression problems still cause I ate my donuts tooo fast! hahaha) So this week we were BUSY! I guess that’s why it went fast! So Tuesday we had a normal working day and went to a couple of our progressing investigators and also did some finding! Well while we were finding some lady yelled at me and said come to my house!! hahah so I yelled back and asked her name then we wrote her name down and went and found them last week but this week we got to teach them on Tuesday and the mom is really open and wants to learn! And one of her kids went to church back in the day with one of her friends...then when we went to go back and teach them...THEY WEREN'T THERE...sad right??? NOPE!! cause guess what!! Their neighbor is SUPER INTERESTED ALSO!! #blessed!! So we started teaching all of them this last week! And hopefully they’ll make it out to church this week! Then on Wednesday we had exchanges with the ZL’s!  AKA ELDER EGBERT!! (for those that don’t know he was my comp in the mtc!!) so we got to be companions again on our exchanges!! Which was awesome! Even tho we just did finding the ENTIRE DAY except for 1 appointment at night before we went home hahaha! Then on Thursday we had interviews with President which was awesome! Then FRIDAY was exchanges with our roomates! Which was just another day of finding haha!! With no results.. YET!! The pic of the lady scooping the rice into a sack is a lady we talked to and then helped carry her sacks of rice back to her house! And she said we could come back and teach her this next week! #blessed! Then Saturday was the baptism of the two child of record baptisms! Then we traveled to go to Legazpi for the Saturday session of stake conference! Then by the time we got back, we just ate and went to sleep haha then woke up and went back all the way to Legazpi for conference!! hahaha so it was a busy weekend full of traveling!! but VERY FUN! 

Then this morning we went to Cagsawa for our district activity! 

And NOW its time for another EXTRAordinary week!! Pray that we keep being #blessed with new investigators and progressing investigators! 

LOVE ELDER PANADERO

HAKUNA MATATA!!

BUNYAG!! (baptism in masbateno) -WEEK 23

Here's a short, but awesome email from Elder Baker!  He actually emailed me back real quick and said oops he didn't mean to send it yet and was finishing it up, but then was gone.......and I didn't hear another word!  SO, here's the exciting news from Masbate this week!!  (we did get some cute pictures though!)        Masbateno = a different dialect in the Philippines than Tagalog.    

Hello family and friends!

So this week was a busy week.  We got back from training in Legazpi Thursday morning at 3:00 in the morning!  And then we got up at 6:30 and went to work!!  We only had a short week here in mobo area but we still got a BAPTISM!!  And I got to baptize her!! 

Sad news.  We had 3 baptisms lined up for January 23rd and the 2 girls that had been our investigators for 3 months and have been attending church were finally gonna be baptized... then the mom flipped on me yesterday!   She started yelling at me about how they are born again and she didn't want us there anymore.  So ya, only one baptism now on the 23rd!!  And then we should have 2 part member baptisms coming up!!  So it's really exciting the next couple weeks!! 

LOVE ELDER BAKER

HAKUNA MATATA!!

MJ got his mission call!!!  

He's going to the Philippines, Cagyan De Oro Mission

Reporting on January 29, 2015!

We know he will be such a good missionary

and can't wait to hear about his experiences.

The small boat they rode over to Legazpi on! 

 Elder Baker with his new companion and his Mission Presidents

 Another Elder in the apartment bought a sauna suit, haha!

BAPTISM! 

Nothing better! 

future missionaries 

random food in their apartment!

looks like someone like M&M's : )

I want my life to be as clean as earth right after rain.

I want to be the BEST I can and live with God again!

I HAVE A SON!! -WEEK 20

Hello family and friends!! whom I love soo very much!

Well this week we only worked three days because I just barely got back to Masbate with my new companion!!  His name is Elder Jardeleza and he is from Illoilo which means his native tounge isn't Tagalog!!  So not only do I not know Tagalog, but sometimes it's hard for him too!!!  And in Illoilo they speak wayyy fast soo he's wayy hard to understand sometimes!!  And we also got 2 new missionaries in our apartment!!  So that's coolio.  One is from New Zealand, so he knows English but the other is from the same place as my comp!! 

But ya, it's been a short week of work but it's been wayy fun.  The transition from trainee to trainer is kinda difficult!!  I'm used to my comp knowing what to do all the time and where to go!!!  But now it's all up to me!!  I decided that every time I make a decision I'm gonna pray about it and see if that's what  I should do.  I need all the help from the spirit I can get!!

Well it's Christmas this week and let's just say I don't think a Christmas miracle of snow is gonna go down!!  It's still blazing hot here!!  Not blazing hot, but super hot and really humid!!  I love it cause I can eat all the rice I want!! (and we definitely eat alot) and then I just sweat it all off!! hahahhaha 

Well, in the spirit of Christmas just give give give!!!  No matter what it is, just GIVE!!  Give all the service you can!!!!  And give prayers to those in need!!  And give help to the poor and needy!!  And for all you parents reading this, OF COURSE GIVE TO YOUR KIDS HEHEHHE!!! 

I hope everyone has a great Christmas week this week and have lots of fun for me!!

LOVE ELDER BAKER

HAKUNA MATATA!!

Christmas Presents!

1 Nephi 3:7 He shall prepare a way! -WEEK 1

HELLO PO! pamilya and friends!

So the MTC is a pretty crazy place! It's literally non stop studying ALL DAY LONG! And all they do is talk in tagalog in the classroom! But it is a great place to learn because the spirit is so strong here! 

My companion is Elder Egbert! He is a really cool guy. At first we didn't really talk, but I think we were both just really tired! We get along very well which is nice. Our roomies are in a trio which consists of Elder Daily, Elder Asay, and Elder Heaton! They're all really great guys and very spiritual!

So day 2 was even crazier than day 1! As soon as we got into the classroom we were already learning how to testify! We later learned that we were gonna have to know how to testify because we were going to be teaching our first "investigator" the next day! so we learned how to testify and pray in tagalog! but then the teachers left and we had 3 hours to prepare a lesson... IN TAGALOG! It was nuts me and my companion had a like 5 minute lesson on the plan of salvation! which wasnt even like a lesson, just us telling him what it was and then testifying of its truth! LOL thats pretty much all we could do! so we taught or lesson and then as we were leaving the "investigator" says that we are going to be teaching him again on Monday! so we've already started planning our next lesson on the restoration.

Well day 3 was probably the most stressful day of my life! This was the day that we actually taught or investigator and it went terrible lol its a good thing its fake cause he definitely wouldnt have been baptised after that lesson! LOL but by the end of the day i was  really mad at myself and the techers cause I had no idea what they were saying and it was just HARD! But right before we went to our rooms our teacher reminded us of the scripture 1 Nephi 3:7 which is the I will go and do scripture, but she really emphasized on the part about he will not give us a commandment save he shall prepare a way for us to accomplish it! so I know that all this struggle will eventually come to an end and I will be able to teach by the spirit in tagalog!

Mahal, Elder Baker 

His Companion "Elder Egbert"

 

Study Group and selfies!

The Room

 The District

"I will go; I will do the thing the Lord commands,
I know the Lord provides a way; he wants me to obey.
I will go; I will do the thing the Lord commands,
I know the Lord provides a way; he wants me to obey."