made a decision to buy some gasoline and light 'em up...worked like a charm!

Hello po nay! 

Things are looking good right now. Edwin is moving up! 2nd counselor in the Young Mens presidency! Elder Brockbank and I are just rooting him on every step of the way! Big W there! 

Samuel and Josephine are now baptized! It was a great service! and now their neighbour, Rocky, who has been shaky before now, is taking in this whole mormon thing. a good shot and their daughter who went to church and didn't like it bc she has no friends went to church again! thats my 9th and 10th baptism in this area! incredible success! we have been so blessed. 

We found this cool family as well, the Bulaclac family. their last name means flower! they live like across the street kind of thing to the church, moms been a member for like 30 years but when she moved here went LA and nobody in the ward knows she is a member. Her kids ranging from 5-22 years of age are stoked on it and the 10 yo and 7 yo came to church! crazy these 2 young kids just showed up with a Book of Mormon and filled out the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ pamphlet in hand! i felt like their dad getting them to class and stuff. cool crew. 

our kitchen has been smelling bad this week so we looked around and found like 25 super rotten eggs from 2017! when we threw em outside of the apartment in our garbage pile they were popping and like exploding. after we moved em outside the smell got worse and we got tons and tons of flies so we made a decision to buy some gasoline and light em up. worked like a charm. Elder Brockbank decided that is probably what zombies smell like. kind of a loss. 

We are also now so into popcorn. twice daily!

Elder Kearl

Any Day Above Ground is a Good Day

some stats for perspective:

1st area: Dupax Del Sur, 4 cycles, 1 baptism

2nd area: Alicia 1B, 2 cycles, 1 baptism

3rd area: Cauayan 1B, 3 cycles, 2 baptisms

4th area: Baluarte A, going on 5 cycles, 10 baptisms.

2 more baptisms coming up on saturday

Hello po nay,

we got 2 more baptisms coming up on saturday! Joesphine and Samuel. They are super cool. we just contaced Josephine one day and it went ok. we weren't sure if we should go back but Elder Brockbank decided we should and we got through the first lessons and saw they were pretty legit. now they are legit and love the church! "i wasnt sure about the Book of Mormon at first.. but i now know it comes from God." - Samuel. They are an older couple around 50 years old and the guys a little rough around the edges. super cool to see em progress. Joesphine would get home from work at 6 and spend the next hour working on the Book of Mormon assignments we gave her till we came at 7. seriously mosipag. 

the best was bringing Edwin along and hearing the things he would say. 2 Nephi 29:6 was the scripture that changed him. He said it hurt a bit to hear but it was just what he needed. He remembers EJ (shane lethabys friend here) explaining something and it was really meaningful to him. the funny thing was i remember teaching him very different than others. when he wasn't coming to church i remember the thought in my head being "Just have patience, don't freak him out, he will come around." he's now reading 3 hrs of scriptures a day and we have a FHE at his house later with the local street youth. LOVE THAT MAN

Elder Kearl 

2 Nephi 29:6 Thou fool, that shall say: A Bible, we have got a Bible, and we need no more Bible. Have ye obtained a Bible save it were by the Jews? 

mosipag = hard working

loved the feeling at the funeral...reminded me of Grandma Rosenvalls

HEY MOM! hello po

Hey, i had a dream Saturday night about me coming home and entering the house and hanging out with You and Emily. i missed you guys quite a bit yesterday. i'll be honest i'm getting pretty trunky. i'm getting way to excited to get home and move on. i'll be honest tho, i really love my mission and enjoy being here and love the service this is. but, 20 months is a long time to be doing the same thing!

thats amazing about your cool experiences at work with babies and their families.. super cool stories. Heavenly Father cares very much about how we come in and out of this world and it's cool you help so many families be happy. MVP

quick week with 2 exchanges in our area with the District Leaders and a funeral! 

The bishop told us to attend the funeral of a woman i've never known but she belonged to a really great family so we attended and i really enjoyed it. She was an 82 yo lady with polio her whole life. we attended the very simple service and then buried her in a nice cemetery in the city. i was not able to participate in the the walk they do here. where the people attending the funeral walk behind the vehicle carrying the casket from the service to the burying spot. i think it's a really cool tradition actually because you get a huge crowd following their loved one. it's funny too bc people driving by will just throw change at them, hahaha. good service and loved the feeling there. reminded me of Grandma Rosenvalls quite a bit. not much to say but it was nice.

We than attended a "Home Teaching Convention" which was pretty absurd.

This morning we went fishing at a members fishing pond and caught like 30+ fish. this small pond had so many fish that you could just put the line in the water and within a minute something would bite. super sunny! 

Elder Kearl

1 Nephi 3:7

may or may not sell my kidney to provide them with the funds to make that come true

NAY!

so i'm not transferred! i'm going to do 5 cycles in Baluarte! that's pretty rare in this mission. that's going to be 7 months here! I'll be with Elder Brockbank for 3 cycles! again, very rare. i was with my trainer for 3 cylces but most people are in an area for 3 cycles. in Cauayan i was there for 3 cycles and had 3 different companions. 

Yesterday Edwins wife was baptized in Hong Kong. super cool to think about our influence reaching hong kong. the family is now complete and have a huge potential to be sealed for eternity. we will see how it goes. may or may not sell my kidney to provide them with the funds to make that come true. Edwin is the pride and joy of my mission.

we attended a crazy meeting on friday and accidently became members of like a government thing. so it was a meeting for the VFO (values formation officers) and they basically go to communities weekly and teach stuff like honesty and stuff. it's good stuff. so what happened is a while ago we got some numbers from the city mayor's secretary and we texted him and like the head pastor of the city invited us. we arrived 5 minutes early while the meeting started an hour late. when the main pastor guy came in he just yells "OOO PRAISE THE LORD!" and said that over and over again. the meeting was 60% pastors sharing scriptures and 40% business. so many praying and even a time to grab a "Prayer Partner" and pray loudly at the same time. the room erupted in sound. Mayor walks in. everyone gets excited. we all get pictures with him and pray to or for him. not too sure which. long story short, it was in the top 5 things that happened on my mission. super fun.

that's it from this week. I LOVE YOU GUYS!

Elder Kearl 

3 Nephi 12:16