Dear Family and Friends,
This week is transfer week in the office and I thought that this meant that things would be going pretty crazy for us, but we actually have nothing to do with it at all. This all lands on the assistants and the President. We just go about our normal things and watch everyone else stress out. It's a really different experience being in the office for transfers. It has really helped me to realize how the whole mission is run on revelation. We'll ask President Mangum how the transfers are going and he will just say, "There's a few things that I'm just waiting for answers on." He says it in such a matter-of-fact way that it helps me realize how we are all entitled to revelation.
Also, things are going well with the adjustments. I know how to do almost everything in the office now, and I'm excited to be able to travel around the mission for the upcoming zone conference. I'm still a little nervous about the driving, but there are actually very few accidents that happen in the Philippines despite how crazy the driving is. I'm pretty sure that I'll be fine. We have had the opportunities to get out and work for about two to three hours every day. We had a fun lesson with a part - member family and we taught them about the importance of reading the Book of Mormon. This has become my favorite lesson to teach in the mission because I have had so many personal experiences with studying the scriptures. One of the members in the family was shying away from the commitment to read the Book of Mormon. We told her that if she read the Book of Mormon every day until our next visit to them, and she could honestly say that she hadn't noticed a change in her life, we would stop bothering her about it. It's really nice and easy to make promises to people when we know that these things are true for ourselves.
The ward here in Alaminos is great. We don't really get as much time to interact with the members as I would like, but they are really friendly and welcoming. We really only get to interact with them on Sunday at church, but I think I get my fair share of talking to people working in the office. We are constantly on the phone talking to people, and sometimes I don't realize if I'm speaking Tagalog or English. Everything is going well as I'm slowly adjusting. I thought the work would just feel like busy-work. It's actually very fulfilling and just as tiring as proselyting. We take every opportunity to get out and get some exercise on Mondays.
Everything is going well and I'm just picking things up little by little. Thanks for all of your support and advice!
- Elder English
The only picture that I have right now.
The first few days were really tiring.
(This is so typical of Bradyn in a car.....)
Below - Elder Nielson's photos
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