How is everyone out there? I am doing
really well here in Miag-ao! This has been a bit of a longer week as we
have been really busy with a lot of things. One thing that I am really
excited is one of my really good mission buddies just got transferred
into the area right next to mine! I don't know if I have ever written
home about Elder Waggoner, but we met each other in the MTC and have
been good buddies ever since. He was in the batch that came in while I
was ZL. He is from Kentucky and the way we found out that we would be
best friends was when we discovered that we both loved the Avett
Brothers. Ever since then we have just become good ol' friends. SO he
is in the next area over in San Joaquin. We are actually a part of his
branch (we are just a group).
I got my package this last weekend and I was able to
withdraw some money so thanks Pa! (I think the card activates if you
put in the pin code at an ATM). Thanks so much for the potatoes and
candy! The pancakes were awesome as well. We are saving those because
we have a hiking trip to the mountains on Nov. 12 and everyone from our
district is coming. So I figured I would be Mr. Generous and just cook
the pancakes that morning for breakfast. I am way excited for this
hiking trip because the mountains of my area are supposed to be way
cool. We will be going to a place called "Tinagong Dagat" (hidden
sea). It is this random lake on top of the biggest mountain here. It
will be an all day hike, but they say you can see like 8 towns from the
top of the mountains and it is way worth the hike. Get excited for some
pictures!
The work this week was tough again because we had
Stake Conference in Iloilo again. We were only able to get like 3
members there. The members here are all pretty poor and it is tough for
them to go anywhere outside of Miag-ao. We are getting way excited for
our young couple investigators though. Noynoy and Nene are getting
closer and closer to getting married and should be baptized next month
on November 12th. We are really pushing for them to just get the
marriage papers done. They are always apprehensive to start and I think
they are confused on how to get everything done. So we are trying to
help them get it done and trying to be patient. They both really want
to be baptized... the marriage is the thing they are nervous about. We
are actually going by to meet Nene's parents to help them feel more
comfortable with the wedding and to tell them what they need to do for
the paperwork.
Other than that we are really trying to just get all
of our members that are in our area to church on Sundays. And we are
really trying to help one guy get everything in order so he can
eventually be our Group Leader/ future Branch President. So that is a
big job. We are sometimes not quite sure what to do and how to do it,
but we feel like the Lord is directing us and teaching us step by step.
We really feel like the work is progressing fast in this are and I am
just way excited for it.
Well I figured out my picture problem... my card
reader was crap. SO now I have it all worked out and I have like 20
pictures I really wanna send. SO I will let them do the rest of the
talking! (They woke up at 5am to get the sunrise pictures)
I love you all and miss you all so much! Happy Late
2nd Birthday to little Levi and Dad's big 50 party is coming up!
Everyone is getting so old while I am gone. I'm excited to hear from
you all this next week!
Halong,
Elder Lowry
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