Maayong haopn sa inyo tanan. Maayo gud ang kinabuhi diri sa Polambato. Dako kaayo akong gugma sa tawo diri. I am so grateful to be a missionary. I have learned so much since I have been in Polambato even though it has only been 1 month. I can't believe how fast time is flying by. I only have 5 more transfers left! That's like nothing! Ill probably only have one more area after this. I hope that I am assigned here for a long time. This is one of the happiest times of my life.
We have good success right now in our area. We have 3 baptisms this Saturday and I just found out from President Schmutz that they are going to be building a church in my area! An actual church building and not just a renovated house. They are still in the planning mode, and not everything is approved yet, but it is so exciting that after almost a year of no building that they will get one again. It will probably take a long time to build though and I will be home before it is finished.
In our ward we teach the gospel essentials class for the investigators, recent converts and all of the youth. There is so little leadership here. We also speak every 3rd Sunday, so this week. We are a large part of the ward here. We have continued to walk with our investigators to church. That is really good in building our relationship with them, I just hope that they will have faith to keep coming even if we don't walk with them. Sometimes it is really hot, other times it is raining. They are being blessed so much for their efforts, I love to see that. Lovely, the recent convert older sister, is already done reading 2 Nephi and is in Jacob. Juvy, her 13 year old younger sister is in 1 Nephi 16 and their younger 11 year old sister Michelle is reading as well, though not as far. We are visiting the Anteligando family alot right now. MaryJoy and her younger brother are inactive members that got baptized a year ago. Their mom and 2 aunts are interested and hopefully they will all start coming back to church and the 3 of them will be baptized. My companion is a really good teacher and always makes the lessons fun and interesting. I am learning a lot from my junior companion.
We were able to go to the temple today. That was great! It has been so long since the last time I have been there, 3 months I think. It was closed one week when we were supposed to go, and I transferred right before my old district went and right after my new district did. Needless to say it was so good to be in the house of the Lord today. It was definitely worth the 3 hour bus ride there. We are about to head back right now. We had McDonalds for lunch, it was soo good! Nothing like good ol' filipino-ized American food! I spent about 250 Pesos, or about $6. That’s more than most people in my area make in a day!
Thank you for the package. The food is almost all gone. It was really good. The only request I have for the next one is beef jerky. That spicy jack links was really good. I could go for some more of that.
Sure love you all,
Elder Schenk
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