HAPPY FATHERS DAY AGAIN!! WEEK 98

HAPPY FATHERS DAY AGAIN!! 

Well this week was good we went and taught our investigator that has been coming to church (the baptist) and he’s awesome! He came to church yesterday also, he has a lot of questions but is finding all his answers here in the church so he’s been really satisfied with the church. He also told us a story yesterday that he saw 3 churches in his dream and he saw a white guy in white standing in front of one church and he went to that church.. well he told us that that he thinks that white guy was me HAHAHA soo thats cool haha (my investigators are dreaming about me haha) he’s really progressing. So sad story about the Delavin family this week.  Both times we went to their house they were either busy or had a lot of sick kids so we didn’t get to teach then and they weren't able to come to church cause 3 kids had fevers... so that was sad but ok they are still awesome!

This week my companion has been having alot of health problems and we haven't been able to work as efficiently as we would like but we are trying to make some miracles happen here! We have a conference this week with 3 zones which will be awesome to see old friends and I will be giving my departing testimony so it’s kind of sad, but also very exciting to see you all again! Sorry this letter is LAME but not much happend this week! I’ll send some pics tho hehe

LOVE ELDER PANADERO

HAKUNA MATATA!!

t minus 6 weeks... -WEEK 97

What an AWESOME week these last few weeks and these next 6 weeks have and will be…. awesome! We’re starting to see God’s hand in this work in this area and it’s awesome to be a part of it! WARNING this is gonna be a short email mom magpasensya ka lang ha!! 

Soo this week we got to teach all of our progressing investigators and we were really bold with them this week to see how serious they really are and we extended them baptismal dates and they are all really excited for their goal dates (and so am I!) Their goal dates is my last Saturday in the mission but it might change to the 20th cause thats the moms birthday, so we are super excited to see what happens!

This last week the mom told me that she has been praying to know if this is really God’s plan for her!! Soo we just bore down in pure testimony and shared the blessings of the gospel and she is super excited and really wants to know this is right for her! So keep her in your prayers! We’re gonna try our favorite miracle worker this week! aka FASTING! I’ll give you guys another update what happens this next week!

This Sunday we had an area broadcast so all the wards met in the stake center and I got to see all the members from my last area so that was awesome! I love those people!! 

I love you all and also just want to send a SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE DADS OUT THERE!! You guys are literally the bomb!! but tbh I got like the michael jordan of dads!! love you dad!! 

LOVE ELDER PANADERO

HAKUNA MATATA!!

The father of our home leads our family

With wisdom's light in all that's right;

My father's good to me.

Fathers are so special with a very special love.

They watch us and protect us.

They guide us and direct us

Back to our home above.

❤️ HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL DAD'S ❤️

MGA HIMALA!! (MIRACLES!!) -WEEK 96

WOAH!? What a week just like a fellow missionary said after all the hard work and diligence... the MIRACLE COMES!! We had SUCH AN AWSOME WEEK I CAN’T WAIT TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT!! But first lemme tell you about the awesome food I ate.... SQUID!! ahhh haha so like I HATE sea food so it was a BIG step for me to try and eat squid haha but.... it was DELICIOUS! haha they cooked it in like coconut milk and it’s SOO good! Then the second thing I ate was SNAKE! haha JK I didn’t eat the snake.. haha but funny story! So we went to go teach one of our investigators one morning and showed up and there was a SNAKE on the loose haha so we helped trap it and KILL it then the kids just went nuts on it and tore it to pieces to show the snakes friends not to mess with their house again!! Then we got to help our investigator clean their house but we didn’t get to teach them cause they were busy after killing the snake haha..

So.. the first miracle! Well one of the guys we have been working with brother Mike CAME TO CHURCH!! He’s super cool.  He’s a baptist and he’s super good at the bible so it’s hard to teach him but we finally convinced him to read the Book of Mormon and pray about Joseph Smith and decide to come to church! But the real miracle was how WELCOMED he was at the church! Cause he always tells us how he wants to see in a church how the members really PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH! And he said that he saw that in our church and was very welcome! You might ask where he told us that?? Well HE TOLD IT TO THE WHOLE WARD IN TESTIMONY MEETING HAHAHA! He walked up on the stand and bore his testimony about how welcomed he felt in the church haha! Soo that was pretty awesome! 

SOO THE SECOND MIRACLE was we finally found "THE ONE" but it gets better it’s not just the one as in 1 person.. WE FOUND "THE ONE FAMILY"!! This is a family that has been prepared for the gospel!! We first meet them while out walking.. I saw a guy in a hammock with his kid and shot him a smile... then he smiled really big right back at me SOO of course we went and talked to him and he invited us in his house and we taught him a lesson it was just him at this time cause his family was gone, but he was so excited for us to come back and teach his family the next time! So when we went back his wife had read the whole pamphlet and knew everything we were teaching! And knew it was all true! Then when we were leaving she asked us about church.. we totally spaced on inviting them, but she asked us where our church was and what time so they could come to church that Sunday!! haha like WHAT?!! #BLESSED! So we went back and taught them on Saturday and when we showed up she told us she was scared they weren't gonna be there when we got there cause they were gonna leave and she said that we would just see each other at church haha!! HAHA AWESOME!! Well here’s the sad part.. they didn’t make it to church on Sunday because they had to do stuff for school because today is the first day of school they ended up being busy but she said they would definitely be there next week!! We are so excited for this family!! And for these next 7 weeks before I go home! The blessings are finally coming in after a lot of hard work and diligence here!!  

#blessed!

LOVE ELDER PANADERO

HAKUNA MATATA

 money in the Philippines...very colorful!

 Elder Baker's new fan his comp gave him.  Looks like he needs it!

 the snake...after it learned it's lesson!!  haha

 a goat Elder Baker was playing with

 the SQUID!!! 

 The NEW FAMILY the found to teach!

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.

"THROW THE UMBRELLA AWAY!" -WEEK 93

Soo first off about the subject I heard something cool in church yesterday. So this guy was talking about how God is always showering blessings upon us but sometimes we’re just too scared to take in all his blessings! Then he said "GO OUTSIDE, THROW THE UMBRELLA WAY, AND TAKE IN THE RAIN!" 

I thought it was the coolest thing cause God’s blesisngs are definitely raining down on us ALWAYS! Maybe not the blessings we want.. maybe it’s a trial.. but no matter what it is, IT’S A BLESSING to help make you stronger and more ready to enter in his presence! 

But we had a pretty good week this week.. well it ENDED AWESOME!! So my new companion is Elder Balacuit this is his second area so he’s kinda new but he’s a GREAT missionary! Kind of quiet but I’ll break him out of his shell and help him be a little more open. But this week I was kinda showing him the whole area so that hopefully by next week we can do splits cause we have a lot of members that work over here with us, so hopefully we will be able to find those people that are ready for the gospel quicker haha! 

But we had the most awesome blessing this week! So our investigator Arcel came to church FINALLY!! She was the one that couldn't go cause her dad didn’t want her to ..BUT she was able to go this week and brought her little sister with her so that was AWESOME!! She’s soo excited to be baptized also.. we had to move her bapt date and she was like "ohh why I thought it was the 30th" haha so she really wants to be baptized and she loves the Book of Mormon! She testified of its truthfulness to us last week! I’m soo excited to be able to help her come unto Christ and finally see some progression in this area, she could be my last baptism..hopefully no.t Hopefully we find those other souls that are waiting for us! 

But Arcel coming to church was another testimony builder of FASTING! Cause I was fasting that her dad would soften his heart and let her come to church and.. it WORKED!! YESS!! So I’m pretty excited now and pumped to go out and find more people ready to be taught! 

One other thing that was awesome that we talked about in district meeting was the story of Lehi and his dream and how he wanted to share the fruit with his family and then Elder Vainikolo brought up the word ohana which means of course "family and family means no one gets left behind" and we talked about how everyone here is our family and we need to make sure NO ONE gets left behind! and doesn’t hear the gospel!! 

I love each and every one of you. You’re all part of my FAMILY!! And I hope you have an awesome week and an even better MOTHERS DAY! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THOSE AWESOME MOMS!! Where would we be without you!! 

LOVE ELDER PANADERO

HAKUNA MATATA!!

 "district"

TURNING "20"

ako ay snag darageno -WEEK 91

HELLO people! So first of all THANKS to all those who greeted me a happy birthday!  We had a pretty cool week this week we have been trying to find those new investigators that are ready for the gospel but let’s just say we’re still looking haha.. We found a lot of new people this week that we are hoping will become interested in the message of the restoration but if not we’ll just keep looking.. I know there is at LEAST 1 there waiting for us and WE WILL FIND THEM!

But we had a pretty AWESOME experience with one of our investigators this week.. So when we went to go teach her, she had just gotten out of the hospital 2 days before cause she got surgery done on her lower back to remove something.. so she said she’s had a a lot of time to READ! And guess what she’s been reading!?!? THE BOOK OF MORMON! Well I know that if you read the Book of Mormon you’ll know that it is TRUE! and that’s exactly what happened to her! She said at first she was reading both the Book of Mormon and the Bible and comparing them and found a lot of similarities so she became more interested then she said as she has been reading she just FEELS that the Book of Mormon is SOO TRUE! Obviously the spirit was working hard on her and she now accepted it and realized it was true!! Well after the lesson we invited her if she wanted to be baptized and she said YES I DO! But she still has to wait a month to recover from her surgery so she can’t go to church yet! And another problem is her father.. she’s 20 yrs old but because she lives with her father she has to follow his rules and he doesn’t want her to go to church or be baptized! so as of now our plan for her father is we’re gonna fast and pray to soften his heart and try to get close with him also to help him feel open with us!

so feel free to send your prayers over for her and her father so sister Arcel can get better soon and get out to church hehe!

ALSO BEFORE HEADING OUT I JUST WANT TO SEND OUT A BIRTHDAY SHOUT OUT TO THE BEST MOMMA IN THE WORLD!! HEHEHE LOVE YOU MOM!!

LOVE ELDER PANADERO

HAKUNA MATATA!!