So a little bit about our mission here in the Bogo area! Me and Elder Garver have been working our butts off and have done nothing but work work and do more work. In the week since I last emailed we had 10 members that came back to church and have 6 new investigators that have baptismal dates and if all goes as planned we will have 5 more- to make 11 tomorrow night as we challenge an amazing family! The dad told me last night that after he prayed he heard the voice of God tell him that what he was doing was right and that he wants to follow Jesus Christ! He hadn't read the BOM yet so we decided not to challenge them but that's coming tomorrow! We have great things planned for this family and for this area! We went from having 23 in our branch attend to having 52 in two weeks!!! We are so excited! We got word from pres. today that we are leading the mission and he has been telling people about our great work here in the field! It feels so good to be able to say that we represent Jesus Christ and that he loves us enough to give us his spirit and to trust us to teach his children. I have been so blessed to be here in the mission! It is something that has blessed my life and given me such a testimony that no matter what happens out here My testimony would not fail!
Family I love you so much!!! Thank you for all the emails and love that was sent to me! Grandpa I love you and hope and pray every day that your back will be healed! Dad I got grandmas letter and Grandma I will read it tonight! I have to print it off along with dads! Mom love you so much and that is so great to hear that the temple was full! We get to go once a month to Cebu for the temple! I cant wait.
I love my work! I love my mission! This is the thing that I have waited for for my entire life and now me and Kailei are livin the dream! We have the chance for two years to do his work and to love his children! Haha Elder Garver said that his goal for me is to have me be a trainer right after I am trained, which is in like two more months so I told him not to count on it, but that would be way cool!
My Cebuano is getting much better! Not even close to where it needs to be but Elder Garver said that it's night and day from where it was my first day! I love you all so much and can't wait to hear from you all! Thank you for your example to me and for the fun times that I get to think about from the many years together! Luis- if you read these emails if I have calculated it right it's Tuesday night there and let me tell you! I would KILL for a wing night!!!!! The food here is not at all very good!!!!..... Everything is so hot and spicy and I'm not sure what it is that we eat every day!... hahahaha I do know that we tried bbq one night and we ate intestines of chicken! It wasn't too bad until our second one and me and Elder Garver looked at each other in HORROR!!!! as we realized that they hadn't cleaned that one out and it was full of cooked chicken poop!!!!!! hahahahha oh the things I would do for a bk run or another call of duty and pizza night! hahaha anything would be better then bbq'ed poop! hahahaha
Love you all! Please keep us in your prayers and know that me and Elder Garver love you and pray for you guys daily! Please always stay close to Christ! He is the only one that will never fail you! The church is true! I promise! But satan's power is real too! I have seen the black magic out here and he has real power! Stay close to the family and the things that you have been taught before and you will never fail! Love you so so so much and miss you daily! But I'm where I'm supposed to be and love every second of it!
With much love,
Elder Shelley
With much love,
Elder Shelley
Pictures: 1: Family that has a baptismal date
2: Cebu temple
3: a bridge the missionaries made to get to an area easier
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