slow and steady..... -WEEK 95

Soo this week was nice, slow but nice haha well it started out with of course finding again.. haha we’re always finding.  Trying to make some kind of teaching pool haha but we found one awesome guy on Tuesday who is kind of quiet, but friendly. When we walked up to him he was kind of shocked but excited to meet us and talk with us and invited us to sit down and talk right away! The lesson was awesome quiet and peaceful cause we just taught him outside under a big tree in the middle of his farm! And he seemed like he really would ponder about our lesson! We haven't gotten to go back cause he’s been busy but we’ll go back tomorrow! Then we got to teach Arcel our investigator we’re working with thats close to baptism and she’s awesome! She really wants to learn and read the Book of Mormon PERO there’s been some problems at her house recently with her family so we’re still pushing back her baptism but I’M so excited for her and hoping that she will get baptised before I go home haha! Other than Arcel, we don’t really have anyone I see progressing towards baptism.. BUT we will keep finding! There’s gotta be someone here that is ready to accept the gospel! Hopefully when school starts back up everyone will come back home and we will be able to find more families and maybe find THE ONE!! slow and steady.. it will come! 

Something that we’ve been trying is inviting EVERYONE to come play basketball with us on Mondays hahaha just so we can build some kind of realationship and eventually start teaching them haha! As of now it hasn’t worked yet.. 

Well I just wanna testify how awesome the BOOK OF MORMON IS!! Everyday I read it, and it tells me something new that I NEED FOR THAT DAY! AND FOR AN EXPERIENCE I’M GOING THRU!! If you're not reading it... READ IT!! President Monson basically begged us to in the last conference!! 

LOVE ELDER PANADERO

HAKUNA MATATA!!

I want to tell my friends about our church

And the happiness it brings to me.

I'll tell them how the gospel was restored,

Tell them how the Book of Mormon came to be.

ASU boyz take the streets! -WEEK 94

Soo this was another awesome!! week not how I was expecting it to go but it ended up being a great week! So it was weird cause we didn’t get to teach our progressing investigators this week because they were really busy...and almost all of our other appointments fell thru.. so sad right?? NOPE #BLESSED! Because we weren't able to teach the lessons we had, it only opened up MORE time for finding! So that’s what we did! And we more than doubled our new investigators this week! We found 13 this week and that was at least 1 everyday! So it was still an awesome and productive week! It’s been awesome to find so many people out here and also see 2 of those new investigators come to church on Sunday! It’s been a blessing to see the work progress here in Daraga! Hopefully we will still see MUCH more progression! Maybe I’ll get to see ONE more baptism before I head out haha! We are really working with Arcel to help her progress towards baptism but it’s been hard cause she’s been busy with getting enrolled in school but hopefully things will calm down and we can really help her progress! 

SOO about the ASU boyz taking the streets. ME AND ELDER ROBINSON had exchanges this week.. haha Elder Robinson is my batch and also from AZ he went to school at Corona Del Sol! Although their school always killed us in basketball... we LOVE EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF ASU!! and it was soo cool working with an American haha we actually have a really funny story.. so we went walking thru this village that I've never been to before so we asked some kids to lead us out. So they did and then they went ahead of us and told EVERYONE there that we were coming thru. haha So as we turn the corner there was like 50 people outside their houses staring at us and then started yelling at us "hey joe" and “what's up man" hahaha it was AWESOME!! Me and Robinson just walked thru smiling and saying hi haha but it was just soo funny at the moment..then it got funnier as we passed thru this little place we were walking away and I looked back again and they were ALL standing in the middle of the road staring at us HAHAHA!! it was hilarious! 

But my day with my ASU boy was awesome... we practically were finding ALL DAY!! haha and we found alot of potential investigators that we went back and taught the next couple days! Overall it was a super awesome week and really fun! 

I kinda realized these last couple weeks how #blessed I was to learn this new language and be able to connect with these people so good and I need to take advantage of it so I’ve been trying to make the very best of these last couple months!  I LOVE THIS PEOPLE!! There is no other people like them! No one that can be SOO HAPPY while posessing SOO little and still be willing to share whatever they have! They know how to TURN OUTWARD instead of turning inward!

I LOVE ALL OF YOU ALSO!! and hope you all have a good week! 

LOVE ELDER PANADERO

HAKUNA MATATA!!

When I'm home or far away, 

Heavenly Father, hear me pray,

Keep me safely in thy sight;

Help me choose and do what's right.

Thanks for home and family too,

Many things to love and do.

Thou art very good to me.

Heavenly Father, thanks to thee.

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!!