have an investigator named emily...it's weird saying her name

great email!

quick email bc of the love from the east. Salamat mga fans ko!! i love the love.

so thats super cool that eric was accepted to med school in north carolina! thats gonna be super cool. i'm curious where they end up! and we will have to go visit ;) 

the RM that is in my ward who knew shane lethaby on their mission is EJ Polido. He is a real good guy with an even cooler family. kindest and gentlest people. good people in this ward. met a Dave Maller, Erin Wolff, and Micheal Tagg! 

you'll have to send some pictures from that cabin trip with schneiders and dillings! i wanna see how they are all doing. also good to hear that Chris has good plans for a mission. he's a solid kid. i have a soft spot for the south crew. also my Bishop has a friend in cranston ward! and his wife used to live in Royal Oak ward. pretty cool hey? 

i have 3 questions: where and with what callings has grandpa rosenvall served? also for grandpa kearl. ALSO where is Jake McClellans misson? 

for news i found a Dave Maller in my ward. great man who is a radio talk host guy. cool. their boy is slightly autisitc and has memorized everything about the church with his amazing mind. names, dates, everything. had an FHE with them. 

Proverbs 19:22

also have an investigator with the name of EMILY. its weird saying her name. good times tho. 

man i've really felt i've grown this week and things are going up hill. learned some neat things from my personal studies and have been blessed with opportunities to share what i've learned about Christ's church He esthablished, the Apostasy, Charity, etc... just feels good to be learning. 

times up! sorry no pictures still! haven't been taking many either :/

LOVE YAH PA DIN!

Elder Kearl

RM in ward was really close with shane lethaby in their mission is legaspi philippines

hello po nay,

good to here that Kyle got maried and thats cool you went to a jewish wedding! ever been to a filipino one? masarap! 

im actually emailing Amy rn. Japans gotta be a super hard mission. language and people. But amy will love it. 

So the news is i transferred. i'm now assigned in the Baluarte ward of santiago north stake. its between bambang and Cauayan. it's super sunny. i'm in a huge apartment that has aircon! i now sleep with a blanket (bed sheet) and wake up dry! no more sweaty sleeps :):):) oh man it is absolute amazing. i'm with an Elder Galindo. he's so diligent and fun to be with. he loves speaking english and the church. he impresses me like ereday. our Kabahays (roommates) are Elder Sacil and Opalda who have both been assigned in dupax! Elder Sacil was born in dupax del sur! like me :):) its interesting with those 2 bc they are so dang funny but they have had some intersting missions so far but its good using and practicing some things i've learned from mistakes with old kabahays. 

so this had to be the hardest transfer for me yet. the day before i left, Reynan who married the Amigo family girl and honestly my favorite and closest family yet in the mish, his wife had a baby the day before i left! so i got to see a 12 hour old baby. oh man it was so tender. cherish. then saying i was leaving was tough...... still really miss them tbh. ALSO Elder pulley, my Kabahay for 3 cycles (april to now) went home with his batch. man that sucked to saying good bye to him and also my first district leader from Dupax Days, Elder Kane. 

BUT! on tuesday the missionary assigned in dupax at the moment slept in our apartment and gave me the 411 on dupax. and man everything is going fantastic! i still remembered everyones names and locations! our Baptism, sister Ergy is super active and im itching to go back. we both shared our deep feelings of love for dupax.. cherish that place. but an older lady, nanay tracita actually passed away which really hit me but her life was pretty sad and lonely at the end. 

one last thing is a met an RM in the ward who wsa really close with shane lethaby in there mission! its been a hoot talking about him and sharing shane stories. great guy. we both miss him. 

thats it, times up

Elder Kearl

Life hack: Alma 31:31

nothing i love more than someone striving

Hello po nay,

there are certainly some ups and downs in your email mom. 

I've heard the Carolinas are absolutely beautiful so that would be cool if em and eric ended up there! 

wow.. Curtis and Jared are leaving so soon. crazy crazy but they are going to do very well. glad to hear they got the letters i sent them! i personalized em the best i could but they are twins soooooo

glad you read the talk i suggested to you!!  i'm reminded of Dad's words at Emilys wedding when he expressed gratitude to Mike and Susan  (Eric's parents. is that right?) for showing a good example of a healthy and devoted marriage and i would like to echo that for you and dad too! Salamat po :) 

oh a garage at the lake! i would love to help him with that when i get home.

Emily and Natasha are allowed to get pregnant on septmeber 15 and on wards btw :) 

did lance fibke get a mission call?

not much time this week so i'll start with a quote from a wise tricycle driver of over 30 years:

"kung walang mosipag, walang mangyayari" (if your not hardworking, nothing will happen)

another from the Cauayan first branch Elders Quormn:

"TLC. Tender Love and Care." apparently that is all we need! 

something great that happened this week is i went on splits with a brand new american and it had to be one of the funnest days on my mission. this Elder, Elder West, really impresses me. he showed such genuine love and care to people he has never met before and will probably never see again. even tho he really couldn't understand much, he gave his full attention to the lesson and is just striving! nothing i love more than someone striving. He also is just having fun, knows why he's there and who he works for. this day with that elder is honestly something i really needed to smarten me up a bit. blessed.

next week i got some news for you guys but i wont tell you rn :)

Elder Kearl

do either of the litchfields have a younger sister either single or my age?

hello po nay! magandang tanghali! 

thats a good update mama!! 

BUT HEY HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON THE 5th RIGHT?!?! or 30th? hope i'm right :)

dad's a monster on the road but man thinking of people driving as fast as they do back home gets me nervous. everything is very slow paced here. like 60km\h highways bc nobodys in a rush. but some people are and bc there are no cops at all it gets crazy.

crazy haileys married! where are they honeymooning and whats there plan? are they staying in calgary? 

for your BDAY i want you to read "one thing needfull: becoming woman of greater faith in christ" by patrica holland. amazing talk recommended by Erin Wolff to me.

love them litchfields. i'm sure you are having fun at the lake with them.  could you ask again if either of them have a younger sister either single or my age? thanks. 

it was a very blessed week! we met some very amazing and promising new investigators! one of the best weeks yet work wise! not much to share about it except this amazing family we are teaching went to church after being visited twice! it was so cool to see them there. the cool thing about that family is every time we go there seems to be another person who wants to listen, so we get a pretty good group to teach every time! similar thing with a different group this week where this one girl came up and said "i want to go back to mormons" to us! she almost went to church a couple days after saying this but was too shy bc she doesnt have a dress :/ shyness is such a reality out here! 

a cool miracle is from my absolute fav investigator ever! he married a member and into a LA but member family. he's probably one of the brightest people i know and he teaches me things from his Book of Mormon reading! he just absorbs everything and has such a strong desire to be baptized and go to the temple to be sealed. this is the Amigo family who i can't get enough of. the best people. anyway, so this investigator works sundays and was only able to attend sacrament in the ward before us and for months tried to get sundays off to attened Branch 1 with us for the full duration. anyway he got work off!! and for the month at his work he needs to get like 14000 pesos in sales and on the last day of the month the day after his first full sunday at church he got 30000 pesos in sales which is like 4 times the daily regular, hopefully that made sense i'm running out of time but i'm hyped! 

"the only thing constant is change" 

Elder Kearl

notice im teaching my MTC companion, Elder Larsen. first time hearing his tagalog in a year!

hello po nay

i don't got much time for the big boy this week but i'll just say we were greatly blessed. 

thats so cool to hear about the sod at the lake. i did some sod work at the golfcourse and really enjoyed it. kinda a cool puzzle. magic as well. 

getting pretty swimming hungry tbh but i can wait. somedays i literally just imagine floating in cold water. sounds nice like everyday at 2 in the afternoon. 

i got your package! pretty rad stuff! man you have no idea how excited i was! i'll be honest i have lots of shirts now so i sent one to my trainee, hope thats fine! what i would like (and no rush) is a longsleeve, i really need another one. if it could be slim fit (bc im thin) and have that collar that buttons itself down would be gold. but the spinners are fun! a new american told me there huge back hme and i thought it was only here!!! the ones you gave sure are nice. also the pez was a good throwback! the IG books completed the collection so thats fun. super great stuff mom, thanks a million!! 

moneys been super tight bc of travel funds (our area is far from the apartment) so for actually the past couple months i've been pulling off weekly 350 peso grocery bills. ($11 CAD) its been some simple meals and telling nanays were hungry :). 

I had a pretty cool experience in a different companionships area in the Zone called Naguilian. so we had a little suprise visit for them to go over some things and afterwards i was chatting with their older land lady who lives on the property and pretty quickly asked her when the last time narries shared to her. said its been like 10 years! every day she sees and talks to the missionaries but this was the first time in years where one has asked to teach her! so the 4 of us taught her an overview of the restoration of the gospel (Our Heavenly Father, gospel blesses families, prophets, Christs church He established, the great apostasy, the first vision, book of mormon, and praying to know). within 5 minutes my companion (who has been assigned in that area but didnt teach her before) gives her a baptisimal date. man it was a super cool lesson. highlight for sure!!! felt something pretty special :) 

Elder Kearl 

everyone like everyday says my nose is huge btw

#KrinDesigns hooking up :)

Hello Po Nay,

This week has been with a really cool day on splits in an area just north of Cauayan called Naguilian. I was with an Elder Andaya who i actually was with for my whole 6 months in Dupax! my first area! it was great working with him! anyway we were teaching an RM who served in Hawaii but doesn't always come to church and just in the beginning a white man comes down the stairs! i couldn't believe my eyes! nagulat ako talaga! but then i talked with him and found out he is from england. talked for a tiny bit than asked him a question of the soul about why we are on earth. he quickly interrupts and says humans are a mistake and our life is so random with no point. poor guy. anyway i got around to testify of the restoration  of the gospel and i had an amazing opportunity to share the first vision in english. my first time ever to an investigator in english. i was really moved and felt some really strong emotions. super strong spirit and it was the only time he wouldn't interrupt while i shared the gospel to him. he might not have learned something but i sure did. anyway i was thinking about that quite a bit and thought what sad beliefs. i'm grateful that we can know of such important things and with hope we can understand our purpose as spirits having a human experience. not as humans having a spiritual experience. and that experience with him was probably one of the most powerful in my mission. 1 Cor 2:14 is such a reality! Good guy in the long run but it's good living being a Christian!! 

Not much more to add to that except i met the funniest old lady in a tricycle! her husband died like 40 years ago and i said it was too bad and stuff but she said "it's ok, i haven't had a problem since!" she made me laugh the whole time! cherish her. 84 years old, pink lipstick, just killing it! can't get enough of old people tbh. i also was bugging her about her glasses bc they were on the very edge of her tiny philipino nose (everyone like everyday says my nose is huge btw) and she carefully explained why she likes it that way. idk just funny. 

something random but an old investigator we are trying to teach again with a crazy story with the narries here has a husband living in airdrie which freaks me out! but could you tell the mulhollands that if they ever run into the guy that i say Hi and want to teach his wife? thanks.

Elder Kearl - Alma 38 (good read)

 

Sent from Sister Hiatt --- Hi Elders, I love these photos and you

 

avocado season rn so this is the daily and i love it :) 

dad would love these trikes, super epic

nana with pink lipstick

mosipag si Elder Uy :)

avocado ice cream is super weird

me and my comp!

NAY!

really don't know what to mention this week so i'll send alot of photos because "pictures are worth a thousand words" hopefully. 

on breaking news its avocado season! ive had some avocado icecream and its super weird! it tastes great and i continue to eat it but my mind is not a fan so i feel like gagging. seriously the wierdest ice cream out here. 

it's been all going very smoothly tho. i'm getting more and more excited everyday to teach and learn. it is super fun teaching, not going to lie. i have also been reviewing my life a little bit more and my approach to discipleship. it's interesting in John 21:15-19.  i think what happens when the resurrected Christ comes to his apostles. He noticed that they had immediately gone back to their same old ways like after Jesus leaves the earth. all the work that they did is as of naught. he gives them fish after a long hard day of none, sits them down, asks Peter (the one who denied him 3 days earlier) if he loves him 3 times. Peter does and he receives the council to feed His sheep. sometimes i worry i'll go home and resume to my old ways, even if they were not that bad, and not remember or just forget the things ive learned out here and all the becoming that has happened. will i get reminded? after reading my patriarchal blessing i realize things really have to be different when i go home. no comfort in the growth zone di ba? 

anyway, other than that we are teaching some very complex and interesting familys rn. very fun, but challenging. a good one is a family who is part of a korean "organization" not religion but organization. they beleive all churches are right and accept everything. they strive for world peace through religious unity but do not understand that unity is under one head. it's unity, not compromising. inter faith stuff is super important, dont get me wrong. i love it. this family is amazing tho. they have like 7 kids all with korean names and they are the most calm and respectful family i have taught. LOVE IT! it's fun teaching them and talking to them. 

tbh i dont know where this email is going but heres a taste into my life. 

ELDER KEARL

the Assitants to the President and the Assistant to the Assitants to the President

doing some teaching

this is how woke up on canada day

looks like ray charles