James’ Mission Sept ‘24 - Sept ‘26 San Pablo Philippines

I know I said this last week haha but, this week was definitely my favorite yet😆😅 so much happened this week I honestly don't know where to start☺️ so heres some highlights -ate american spaghetti and tacos 🌮 -touched a cow 🐄 -ate balut again🤯(its so fire) -got broken up with on valentines day 🥲 -Got back together the next day😄 (if u wanna hear the story hmuuuu) -went fishing🤣 -blessed a house Really so much happened this week its enough to write 3 whole emails about. Ima just talk about some of it sorry hehe. I guess first of all exchanges on Wednesday was lit. I went with an American thats only one cycle ahead of me and we absolutely cooked. We found so many golden people that I think will progress really well. That day, we found this part member family that was really really struggling. The second I walked into their house, I could just tell they needed help. I offered to give a blessing and they all said we were literally an answer to their prayers. The dad in th...

This week was littt definitely one of my favorite weeks yet. New comp is a chiller, and we had really good work this week. The missions always fun when the work is working.😊 To start off, we now have 4 PBD and 3 of them are hopefully getting baptized this cycle. 2 of them are in march and one is next week!!🥳🌊 After these baptisms im tryna get outa Lipa and go somewhere beautiful because my area is just a city🥲 This week was super fun. P-day was lit iykyk🤫 Got to go on exchanges on Wednesday with the zone leaders and he really showed me how to work. We had a lot of stuff to do in the morning and so we really started our work around 2 and had 18 teachings that day despite starting late. Elder Bailey a grinder fr. HIGHLIGHT OF MY WEEK Heres my favourite thing that happened this week... for those of you who dont know how jeepneys work its pretty self explanatory. Its like a bus that drives all over and too different areas. They all have signs in the front that say where theyre goi...

This week has been a fun and crazy one. I hope eveyone is doing amazing at home miss you all and love you all so much and I always appreciate it so so so much when you send me messages even if I dont respond I try I promise! This week was transfer week and ohh my bruda it was wild. First of all Im graduated from training sheesh im no longer a little greenie that follows my comp around everywhere we go. Im staying in the same area for my third cycle and I'm lowkey so glad because we have 3 people on date this transfer that I'm super excited to baptize😊 and I love the members haha My new companion is filipino and he's awesome. The work is so much better with someone that knows how to work hallelujah. Im so excited for this transfer. My kabahays are also all filipinos and theres a trio so theres 4 Filipinos and then me. None of them speak very good English so They are always talking im tagalog and its soooo hard to understand them but I'm going to learn so much tagalog ...

Hey everybody happy P-day! I've been waiting for this day for a long time haha. Today we get our tranfer news! My comp leaves tomorrow and Im gonna be in a trio for a couple days🥳 I'll let you know how transfers go next email if I leave or stay and who my new companion is! Im now 3/3 on new comps per cycle thats dope. This week was fun. It was alot warmer finally it was good to be in some sunny hot weather finally. When I got called to the philippines I thought that it would always be hot but nah its been cold its finally getting warm!🌞 Since I might leave, all of the members have been feeding us lately and it's been so nice they always cook the best food😋 I love the memebers here and I lowkey hope I dont leave... My tagalog is actually getting a lot better I can finally share what comes to my mind instead of just my testimony. Its soooo nice to be able to say what I want to even if its in broken tagalog at least they can usually understand what Im trying to say. Im...

Aye whats up everybody😉 this week was super good, still got the goat comp😁 homie leaves on sunday though so im gonna be in a trio with my kabahays for 4 days which im super excited about they are really cool. This week was fiesta🥳🎉🍻 This pretty much means that everyone and their dog was partying all week for absolutely no reason haha its just fiesta. The work was a little harder because of that but we still had a pretty good week. We got fed alot which was amazing it always makes my day when we get fed.😋 Yesterday we walked out of our apartment and three moms that were definitely drunk started screaming haha and they asked for a pic with me. They were all saying "pogi" (handsome) and they wanted a picture haha so I took a picture with three 50yo moms throwing up the 🫰🏻 Filipinos are so goofy lol I love this place.🇵🇭 Me and another new american thats only one cycle ahead of me went on an exchange this week. His names Elder Anderson and since he is new too hes just...