Mga Pamilya

Mga Pamilya all my family i love all of you out there who takes the time to either dear elder or write me a letter i really do appreciate every single one i get i get so excited well again thank you
well this week here at the mtc we all had some good times the language seems  to get more easy by the day here with awesome teachers like brother mofat and brother nordtram he has been here for almost 4 years and is friends with alaina makaylas old kasama anyway what else we got to usher for the devtional last week and guess who came to the devotional that night it just so happened to be a genral authority how blessed are we to usher that night and get those great seats by the apostle i was so excited to see his name he talked a lot of president monsons famous quotes he has one of them i wont forget is NEVER never never ignore the prompting of the holy ghost some of you may know that president monson was a bishop at the age of 22 anyway so when he was a bishop he was in a ward council right before the meeting he herd of a less active memeber was in the hospital and so he made plans to go visit him that night so he was in the middle of the meeting he was prompted to leave the meeting but he didnt want to be rude so he waited till the meeting was over raced over to the hospital ran up the stairs and just as he found the room the nurse just put a blanket over the mans face and the nurse asked Are you Bishop monson he answerd yes and the nurse said he was calling out for you before he died and from that day he learned never ever ignore a prompting the holy ghost prompts us for a reason and we need to follow him
last sunday we had a speaker come talk to us he was more like a comedian then anything anyway his main message was Dont Be Stupid to remember who we are and who we represent and the rules are there for a reason he told of a story about these missionarys who after a zone conference decide to play basketball then they got talking about bombs of all things and after much talk they decited to make some bombs just cause they could and then they lit one off in the road woke the the police captian up and the cops showed up right away then they lied that it wasnt them and then they decited to tell the Truth the cops then went into the house with more bombs inside with a map with pins on it those elders spent the night in jail
another set of elders got sent home and closed an entire mission for sitting on a buddah statue because they did not respect their culture so dont be stupid we were told
hmmm what else interesting happened today well our older district leaves today and they ll be missed and they had some fun for sure haha oh the stuff they do
Makayla how s little issiah doing i hope he is getting more amazing by the day he sure is the cutest baby boy i know for sure how was your 2 year anniversary with luis and issiah i hope you had fun here i m trapped and the outside world is someone playing music in there car stopped at the light kind of sad huh and how s everyone else doing i hope there all doing good
if you can can you see if sio and arinda could send some pictures too how far does issiah crawl no and how s little lilly i hear she know s alot more words now
well in close i like to thank every one again for sending me letters and emails and the dear elders through the mail they really do help when i have a bad day here the mtc is great i wish we could stay here for a little while longer then theres some days where i m like get me out of this place its like tourture now but i know it will all pay off i love going to the temple its so great too bad baguio doesnt have one they are starting to build one but wont  be close of being finished but my work is for the living right now i would ask that everyone who wants to just find an hour of personal time for the scripters i promise it will sure help
Mahal Kita Kayo

Week 5!!!

Kumusta po kayo everyone ako asteg my self haha this week was pretty good are district is getting better and better i dont think i have ever metioned them before my bad first we have sister shuchman she s pretty cool from right here in utah close to manti no mans land out there then we have Sister walker everyone calls her mama walker cause sometimes she acts like our moms its funny the theres me of course the coolest one then my kasama elder contreas something like that he s a mexican sometimes he says things wierd like when he says the book of morom he says Mormon like a vampire dragging out the O's its pretty funny then we have elder swenson from califorina he s pretty chill elder and smart too and he has moments where he makes everyone laugh and is dramatic then we have elder boyd from sandy utah he is our new district leader its funny he was picked just wouldnt  be the guy you would suspect oh well he s in our residence just like elder swenson its a good bunch for our room then we have elder morgan he s a very serious guy almost all of the time and takes things seriously to much sometimes then we have elder kauvaka he s a tongan represent for sio haha he s a really funny elder and someone you can count on then we have elder hasnsen but we call him elder handsome haha he s a quit most the time but he is halliors with his facial expressions he reminds me of logan a bit then we have elder lenord he s the class clown always trying to get the laugh and he and sister shuaman are like the best of friends in the mtc we make jokes about how there going to get married haha oh who knows
What is going on? with issiah bug he s crawling with out me and i hear he is growing up to fast that story of issiah laughing himself to sleep is just simply asteg asteg asteg (awesome) i miss that litte guy he s so cute i would appreciate some pictures of the all the family it would be nice to have to bad i cant get videos on these computers they just find every way for us not to see the outside world but i had a dream sometime last week Makayla put on her old name tag and snuk into the mtc and found me and we had lunch it was a asteg dream i didnt want to end cause me and makayla got to spend sometime together its was pretty awesome maybe it was a dream of prophecy who knows haha
i read in one of the letters that lilly still kind of remembers me thats crazy that she says she misses me even know that she was such a mama and daddys girl haha and she has quite the vocabulary now thats pretty cool thanks for the blessing i have been reading that thing almost all of the time know i cant get enough of it its like reading frome the book of mormon thats one of my favorite things to do here at the mtc we as a district read out of the book of mormon its pretty awesome we share insites to what we had read last night we read about the stripling warriors momma boys haha but anyway the way they were able to be so blessed and have the miracles was with the exactness and i read that day in D:C 133 2-6 it was such a great scripture it talks about leaving  babaloyon behind and while we read the veres about how the anti niephtes and lehits i cant spell today how the gave up their weapons of rebbelion interesting word but when we read that verse the holy ghost hit me in the head and told me to share that scripture in DC:133 2-6 it was crazy i have never felt such a strong promteming from the holy ghost it was asteg i am so glad we as mga missionary's get to have the companionship of the holy ghost pretty much 24/7
sorry to hear about your car gregg i hope you can get it fixed and that it wasnt to bad i bet you have a bunch of letters waiting for me at the house and trying to make me sweat haha
and thank you everyone for the care packages i have gotten so far i really enjoy all the letters as well they really are the best thing a missionary can get in the mtc i kind of wish i could always stay out here on a mission so i can always feel the way  i do here its so asteg to be here around so much power of the priesthood and the love and care everyone has for each other the devotionals here are amazing i love them and tonight we get to usher for tonight's devotional guaranteed great seats maybe it will be an apostel fingers crossed (come on uchtdorf) he s so much fun to listen to him and mormon messages have never been so much fun to listen to in my life execpt for seminary before or church we are learing so much here at the mtc i love it i would recommend everyone to do it i can see such abig difference in my life already
sio arinda pat mai pio geana sio flao and sini where s the letters and the love jokelong im sure they will come i love all my adopted family i ll write you all next week sorry this half hour to email is never enough time
Ingat po (polite goodbye) Keet a keets

Week 4 and Sill loving it!

hey everyone its the end of my fourth week here at the mtc its crazy to think i have been here all this time its definitely a great place to be there is something in this food that makes us so gassy haha oh well hopefully i dont put on any weight i ve been working out as much as i can i dont want to get back to 193lbs hard to believe i was ever that big the language is so hard i was struggling for the past week i understand it i just cant recall what im trying to say but luckly i have asteg teachers here at the mtc who loves us and gave me some guidance and gave me some tricks how to memorize better we have a teach named bro mofat he s the man he speaks a million hours its pretty awesome to hear how fast he can speak
i thank everyone for writing me i really love the letters dear elder is awesome, too bad about the fender bender of greggs car it had to happen sooner or later not all of us can have a good driving record like when makayla was cheated in stansbury in that 4 way intersection when i hit a car oh well i m sure its not to bad i love the photos of little issiah he is the coolest half mexican baby i know what else has been going on here at the mtc hmmm i got my hair cut today as short as i could so that president anderson could stop worrying about my hair and also we lost all our good desk in 7m yesterday they said we were spoiled for having them and were giving them to the english speaking missionary's who are here for 3 weeks and were here for 9 but it better just not to argue we are now not allowed any notes in our lessons we just have to go off memory now its becoming a challenge for sure
makayla i did get that care package you sent my roommates love hot cheetos as do i and people want to trade for my paisly its so asteg haha i dont think i ll ever trade any of my ties i wish we had more time in the day for email and letters but we are so busy here plus there feeding us all the time it seems like oh well i do need to eat alot you know all us tall skinny kids who need to eat a lot like constly is more like it haha
i did get my patriarchal blessing in the mail it looked like there was some honey on it oh well i did get a journal size and a Scripture size for my self it so awesome to see that blessing now it makes me wonder whats going to happen next its kind of nice to know to have a guideline of what will happen as long as i follow the lord in my life hopefully i dont have to worry about falling away cause i know the mission will help for sure and i ll have a wife someday who will make sure i stay in line haha jokelang about the wife part im sure we ll be able to rely on each other for anything and i ll have the the strenght and abiltlity to do so i m so gratefull for that blessing i love all you guys hope everything is going good
i m going to try to write all of you next week or through out the week when i have some free time sorry i didnt get to this week i ll do it for sure next week i promise
Gregg how are things going i hope that your little alreo is doing okay how s life going for you besides that is big O awsome are you reading and praying everyday i dont know whats going on with ya so i like to see a email from you or a letter that would be awsome to know whats going on in your life write know
i would like to thank everyone for supporting my mission and that was always was a friend to me i hope everything in your life is going good like mine is write now i can tell the misson is most definitely the best thing i could of done for myself thanks to all those who pushed me in the write directions all the del taco runs or all those nights crashing at your house or just there to talk to thank you all
i would like every one to know why i know young men should go on missions its not just to preach the gospel its so we as young men become men and a better man more patcient more calm more loving and theres a lot of ways we can grow on the mission to grow a more personal relationship with our savior jesus christ and our hevenly father i would ask anyone reading this if they thought about going on a mission do it dont worry about if you ll have enough money your family will help you or the church will (now dont be lazy) its definently worth it ive only been here for almost a month but i have personaly seen the effects its had on me and how much more i turn to the lord now i testify in the name of jesus christ amen

Week 3!!!

kumusta po tayo  how is everyone doing its been a intresting week here at the mtc we had our first trc here it was so asteg ako ng kasama got 2 phillipinos as our 2 ivestgators there from the phillippines they it was so cool to talk to them me and my kasama made this big lesson and we bassically talked to them for 20 minutes it was asteg champre i wish we could do that more often my 2 guros are brother nordstrem he knows alenia makayla and brother mofat he is so down to earth and a great teacher for us it seems like were learining a lot here at the mtc we have found out our class will be down with the grammer in 6 weeks and the last 3 is just all practice i cant wait till this language finnaly sticks in my head and i can finnaly speak it with out thinking to hard its a simple language but weird at times  natuto po si joseph smith sa mga tao (google translate) anyway
so last wednesday i kind of hurt my ankle haha it was kind of a funny story of how it happend so i was jumping off one foot to do a heel click and i put to much pressure on one side of my foot and i think it was just a mild sprang if anything but i did take it easy for a week and it feels a lot better so you doing have to worry i also bought my self a ankle brace just incase it my ankle acts up for sports and logan i get to play basket ball now since the gym open last sunday we saw the legcy church talks are good and all but sometimes you just want to watch a movie am i right haha we went to the temple this morning my kasama doesnt have his reccomend on him and he isnt in the system either so they let us in but he is pretty forgetful on things like he didnt bring a suit jacket with him our branch president was harrasing him about it and our hair even if someone was bald he would tell them to get their hair cuts oh well thats there job i guess
i finally got those glasses in the mail yesterday i was wondering what was taking so long and thore awesome although i seem to be clumbsy when i am walking around so i just use them when i am reading thanks dad for those you spoiled me with a lot of things here i do enjoy all the dear elders there asteg asteg you could send as man as you want i have been writing in my journal every night some are more lengthy then others at leas i am writing in there
we as a class starting reading in the aklit ni morom it is so nice to have everyones insight on the book of mormon we discuss what we think that verse or bursiklio means its the best part of the day for sure besides sports and food other than that its the best ever the mtc seems to get better every week i keep going to the wrap line i cant get enough of it its llke barbracoa i miss it its going to be hard not to have that or rancharitos haha
Logan i found out the the ties you gave me will get ruined cause of all the huminty and ties there are really cheap so when im about to leave the mtc i ll be sure to send those your sunglasses so you dont have those ties ruined thanks again for all those last minute things
little issiah needs to stop growing for at least 2 years and stay that age
How goes getting the blessing and hows everyone doing i cant believe tomorrow will be the start of my 4th week here at the mtc week its going by faster then i thought im tired though cause it seems we all need just a little bit more sleep i almost a fell asleep in the session today it took a lot to stay awake  theres a tree here at the mtc that smells just like cream soday its so crazy i want one of those trees at my house when i have one assuming im rich enough to buy one jokelong the food is still great i stay away from those fake mashed potatoes and only go for the ones that still a potato and not a flake i m from idaho falls so i am aloud that right to be picky about my potatatoes ha ha almost all of us are from idaho huh anyway i m trying to remember to send out some letters and sorry if i dont our days are so busy we dont really get a lot of time to send out letters
alam ko po na totoo po ang aklit ni mormon at pagbabayad-sala ni jesuscristo mhalaga po ang propreta theres a little testimony in sa tagolog sorry im out of time i will talk to you future and missionarys next week keet ta keets

if you could send me some stamps that would be appreciated thank you
write my kasama sometime he doesnt get much letters compared to me his name is elder contreras same misson as me too