tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168136801220610692024-02-18T18:03:34.038-08:00Elder Lasley - Cavite PhilippinesLazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-50013205833296216332015-07-14T21:40:00.005-07:002015-07-14T21:40:45.016-07:002 -1/2 Weeks Left to Go!<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Hey Fam!</span><br />
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Whats goin onnnnnnn! </div>
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Sounds like a more or less normal week in the life of the Lasley fam! That experience you guys had at the Y's family is super cool. i miss Manny, we are good friends. Tearing the ACL is baaaaad news. I hope he recovers and is able to get back to the soccer field. He is super good at soccer. Well at least he was in high school, I'm guessing hes probably only gotten better. Its awesome that you guys were able to give him a blessing. Yeah, Bro. Reber's an awesome guy, I remember when we had a scout camp at Lake Roosevelt and we had a tubing competition and the brackets ended with me and Bro. Reber in the finals, and I beat Bro. Reber and was given the nickname "taco boy" because when Bro. Reber fell off the tube, there wasn't enough weight on it to keep it from catching air because of the wind and bouncing me off a huge wave making me taco ahaha. Thats one to remind Bro. Reber about haha.</div>
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Anyways, this week was just fine! It was very similar to last week, just continuing to work hard and be be obedient, which is the cause of a lot of confusion among other missionaries because everyone expects every missionary super close to going home to be trunky and lazy and not work and stuff, but I am the exact opposite! And there is only one reason why honestly. I would be super trunky and lazy and not work BUT there is a promise that says exact obedience brings miracles, and I have really been hoping for a miracle lately! and it is slowly unfolding! The family I have been telling you guys about came to church again and their testimonies are continuing to be strengthened. They are learning more and more and becoming more and more interested in the gospel and just everything! The only problem is, they still need to be married. I have been asking the branch for help with this, but so far nothing has really happened, so this week we are going to take it into our own hands. On Tuesday, we are planning to take the mother and father to the Municipal Hall (like City Hall) and hopefully fix everything in the way of them getting married. I am also going to talk to the Elders Quorum and Relief Society about what can be done to help them pay for their marriage. Elder Matangi and I have faith that they will be able to be baptized on their set baptismal date of July 25th, but we have only just started to try our faith and put it into action. </div>
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Another awesome thing that happened is this past Friday when we went to their house to teach them, the 5 children were kind of hiding and being really secretive and then finally, they all came out of the house and presented me with pictures they had drawn and letters they had written for me thanking me and telling me how much Elder Matangi and I meant to them and their family and I swear I was so close to tears haha. Apparently their mom had told them after church last Sunday that I was leaving to go back to America soon and they all got super sad and stuff. And then this week, in the several days they had no school because of the multiple tropical storms that passed over us, they used their free time to draw me pictures and write letters for me so I would "remember them forever". It was unbelievably cute and made me intensely happy! I am now in the process of thinking what I can give each of them before I go home! </div>
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I remember telling you about one other family that we teach that is extremely progressing and wonderful, and as of this week they are only progressing more and getting more wonderful! They are a young couple with 2 children, 2 years old and 8 months or something, who we have been focusing on for about 3 or 4 weeks now. They came to church yesterday and participated awesomely in gospel principles class and listened and learned in Elders Quorum and Relief Society. We went to their house after church to teach them and they expressed to us how they know with absolute surety that this was the true and correct church on the Earth, and how right after church, the father talked to his mom and told her that he was Mormon now and would never ever leave or look for another church because he had found the truth and questions he has had for his whole life are being answered through his reading in the Book of Mormon and his church attendance and invited his mom to come to church and be taught by us also. His mom actually sat in on our lesson that very day! Brother Lester, is his name, is one of the strongest and most golden investigators I have ever had the pleasure to teach in my whole mission. In gospel principles class, tithing was mentioned because the lesson was about Sacrifice, which I taught :), and Brother Lester raised his hand and shared his thoughts on tithing and sacrifice, and we haven't even taught them about tithing yet! Then the first question he asked when we visited him later that day was "how can I pay my tithing?" to which I replied "you don't actually need to pay tithing until you are baptized" to which he replied "well I would like to now, can I even though I haven't been baptized yet?" holy cow Matangi and I were just in shock haha. If that doesn't give you a glimpse about how awesome he is, that I don't know. He is way too prepared. The only sad part is I most likely wont be here for their baptism because they still need to be married and there isn't a very good chance it'll happen before I go home. But that is the least of my worries, I don't need to be here to see their baptism to have been part of their conversion and for them to stay active and endure to the end. the important thing is that they get baptized. </div>
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So that's why I am still being obedient and diligent and working harder than I ever have in my whole mission and will until the very end. I am feeling more successful as a missionary here in my last area than I ever have throughout my mission. It's awesome, I love it more than anything. :)</div>
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Anyways, obviously I still am super excited to come home! Honestly I am totally fine with anything that happens, anything we do! As long as I'm with you guys again it doesn't matter what we do or what we eat or where I sleep ahaha don't worry about anything! If Mom is thinking about dinners to prepare for me, any American food is perfect. Just keep white rice off the menu, I've had enough of that for a while. :) I am so unbelievably excited to see you guys, you don't even know! And everyone else! I am super excited for the family reunion in Sacramento too holy cow! </div>
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I'll finish strong, don't you guys worry about me. I love you guys and I'll see you guys in no less than 16 days because I also don't plan on being sent home early :)</div>
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Stay Golden Lasley Family!</div>
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Love,</div>
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Elder Lasley, soon to be just Adam.</div>
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-87148818008947837452014-12-06T08:59:00.000-08:002014-12-06T09:00:00.689-08:00Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby) coming!Hey family!<br />
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So President Tye gave us time today to
email before the typhoon hits because he thinks that we're gonna get
smashed but we're probably actually not so theres really nothing to
worry about, I am not worried at all. Theres only a 60% chance that it
will even make land fall. We'll also get to email on Monday so I really
dont have anything to say right now that I wont say on Monday, I'll just
wait until then to tell you guys about my week and stuff!</div>
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Maddie is pretty worried about me though because of this typhoon, so maybe you guys could like I dont know comfort her somehow! </div>
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Just in case anything bad happens or we're arent able to email on Monday, I love you all! I miss you guys a lot! </div>
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I do have some pictures to send today though so I'll send some pictures! yay!</div>
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I love you guys, I'll most likely email again on Monday!</div>
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Love,</div>
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Elder Lasley!</div>
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Family! I'm glad things are going awesome in Flagstaff! First week of summer over and done, only 2 months left ahaha. I wish I could be going to Lake Powell, thats one of my favorite trips we take as a family, I love the lake! I miss swimming and water sports ahaha. Yeah hopefully we can switch our week next year so we can all go when I get home! Its okay if Ben misses the first few days and senior year, and Sam misses the first few days of sophomore year! :) the Skinners rock, I love that family. I bet youre happy youre bringing someone who can drive the boat so you can do some skiing. and I mean, I havent met the Razbolds yet, but theyre probably pretty cool. ;)</div>
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I cant believe Ben is losing his attitude and Sam is getting one now! Theyre switching attitudes. I was surprised when I heard Sams voice when we were skyping, hes really gettin older haha. Yeah Harrison is super close to entering the MTC! Thats super cool, I'm excited for him. He sent me a short email so I'm gonna email him back. </div>
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Yes that is correct, I did get tranfserred! ahah but I am in the same city still, Dasmarinas. I mean it is a pretty big city, so I'm not very close to my last area, but I'm still in the same stake ahaha. So my new area is not a whole lot different than my previous area, except, the work is much more progressing here! My last area was very difficult, and here it is a little bit easier. We have members work with us pretty regularly which is awesome, and we have several progressing investigators. School just started back again here, so teenagers are now usually in school until around 6 o clock, but after that time our work really picks up ahaha. Its been raining a whole lot too! Everyday since Wednesday its rained! We're thinking rainy season is starting up, which is great because the temperature is much cooler now. My new companion is Elder Espiritu, from somewhere that I dont know! I mean its in the Philippines, but its a province I havent heard of before. His native dialect is Ilocano, but hes still fluent in Tagalog. And! He speaks very little english! Very little! like, I speak more tagalog than he does english! which is saying something, ahaha. So its a little bit of a challenge sometimes, but my tagalog is definitely getting better because, you know, I've only been speaking tagalog while proselyting. Sometimes its hard because I cant really express what I really want to say in tagalog, but I just fine ways to work around it ahaha. Sometimes it gets pretty quiet when we're walking around because I'm not very good at just small talk in tagalog, but its fine! I know I've been given this companion and that it is a blessing, I will definitely improve in tagalog because of this companionship! Other than that, he is an awesome guy. We laugh and have fun, and I have no complaints! He's been out about 5 months, so I'm almost exactly twice as old as him in the mission (by the way my year mark is in august, I may or may not be expecting a 'happy one year' package. :) ). He has kind of a cool story though, because he was actually called on his mission to Singapore! But was temporarily assigned here while awaiting a visa. The visa never came though, so he was re-assigned here. But hes happy about it because The Singapore mission is english speaking and he didnt have any enlgish training in the MTC, so he probably would have had some trouble with that. He says he still wants to learn English though, so while he helps me in tagalog, I'll be helping him in english! It should be fun ahaha. The house me live in now is not as nice as my last house, but I like it just fine. Its quite a bit smaller, but the beds are more comfortable (lol), and it has a washing machine! but no drier. but thats okay it has a functional washing machine! Alright, washing machines here are very different from washing machines in the states. like this aint no Kenmore Whirlpool, its about 3 feet high and 2 feet wide, made of plastic, and shakes violently when its cycling. but it works and gets my clothes clean so again, I have no complaints. :) Also, one of the rooms in the apartment has a air conditioning! but we never use it because we pay for electricity and its pretty expensive to run. The other two elder in our apartment are our zone leaders! Elder Rindlisbacher, from Highland, Utah (no he doesnt know the Abbotts) and Elder Devinuwara from Sri Lanka! theyre both super cool.</div>
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That article that mom posted on her facebook is awesome! I really feel that exact way sometimes! I dont do much crying (like I'm pretty sure I've only cried like twice on my mission, in my first week here), but I totally understand the emotions that author was portraying. Missionary work is hard work. Its hard to stay happy on the outside sometimes, when so many other feelings are going on inside you. But its okay, I love the work and I dont regret it for a second.</div>
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Thanks for that though. Dad. I mean I know you love me, but its great to hear it in that way. I know you will love me no matter my choices are. I love you very much too! I will also love you no matter what. </div>
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One of our investigators - he's 82 years old.</div>
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-16898154837398575072014-06-02T21:00:00.004-07:002014-06-02T21:00:58.129-07:00June 1, 2014: District Leader, Mission Devotional, and MonkeyHey family! Mom Dad Ben Sam!<br />
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awesome! the first few days of summer! Dang, I remember graduating last
year like it was yesterday! Its crazy how time flies. I'm glad Ben had
some senior friends this year so he could go to grad night and get to
some grad parties, those are always super fun and the food is usually
awesome! and its awesome how so many of my friends dropped by, I'm glad
they still remember me and my family! Maddie told me that Mom dropped a
present off at her house for graduation and she was so happy! Mom you
really made her day! Thanks for that. :)</div>
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Yeah it kinda sucks that Sam isn't all for going to Flag High, I
wish he would too. All the teachers he would have would know him by his
big brother and it would be awesome ahaha. and of course, Ben and Sam
would be going to the same school which is always good. But i guess i
understand his reasoning. just do work Sam! and when you play flag high's
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Things here are going just fine though! and Yes! I am
finally being transferred! This area is not my favorite, so I'm super
happy! i'm not sure where I'll be transferring yet, i should find out
later today, but I'm pretty much all packed already because transfer day
is wednesday. oh, and I will be a district leader in my new area! I
got called to be a district leader! If you don't what that is, just ask
the elders because i'm not exactly sure how to explain it ahaha. but its
awesome! I was a little bit sad that I didn't get called to train a new
missionary, but then President Tye called and told me he was calling me
as a district leader and then I was happy ahahah! It should be an
awesome experience. obviously, I'll keep you guys informed. Elder Matina
is staying here, and he was called to train a new missionary! He should
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One more cool thing happened this week. We had a mission devotional
in a neighboring city, with Elder Craig C. Christensen of the
presidency of the 70 and Elder Larry Echo Hawk of the Philippines area
presidency. they both spoke along with President and Sister Tye and
Elder Echo Hawk's wife too. it was awesome and I learned a whole lot!
Elder Christensen blew my mind at least twice with crazy gospel doctrine,
it was awesome. He told us this fact about Satan, that Satan can't
actually read your thoughts, that power is reserved to Heavenly Father
and Jesus Christ. They way Satan tempts you is by observing your
actions, and by observing your actions, he uses deductive reasoning to
find out what you are thinking about, because obviously, all actions
start first with thoughts (unless you're extremely impulsive, like me).
so the best way to throw Satan a curve ball is when you have bad or
inappropriate thoughts, to do the opposite of those thoughts! obviously,
its very difficult to do the opposite of what your mind is thinking,
but if you can master it, Satan can have no power over you! That blew
everyone's mind and was super cool to hear about. He is a crazy smart
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Anyways, that's about all that happened this week, I don't really
have any stories about crazy experiences while proselyting or anything
like that. Literally me and Elder Matina looked at each other just
earlier and were like "what happened this week?" because it was so
routine ahaha. But its okay, I'm glad I had the opportunity to serve in
this area, and I will go to my new area with newfound motivation and
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Oh one more fun thing. On wednesday, we had exchanges, so elder
Muavesi from Fiji was my companion for the day. He's a super fun guy, I
love him! anyways, we were proselyting and then we saw a group of kids
playing basketball on this makeshift basketball hoop, so we were like
"lets play with them" so we played basketball with 10 twelve year old
kids for like 30 minutes. people started like coming out of their houses
and were like videoing us and stuff ahaha it was super fun. Afterwards
we were sweating like animals and just went straight to 7/11 because
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This less active family that we visit sometimes has a pet monkey named
Boots! I was always afraid to touch him because i thought he would bite,
but he just play bites and is super funny! ahahah if you put your head
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This is Elder Zacarias, my trainer, Elder Calipes, his trainer, me and
my brother Elder Ballantyne! as in Elder Zacarias trained him too. so Elder Calipes is mine and Elder Balantynes grandpa.</div>
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Elder Baylon turned 20 on Sunday, so we went hard on Monday night (last Monday)</div>
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Elder Baylon turns 20!</div>
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Fun kids we hang out with</div>
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Love these kids</div>
Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-11435305762102052132014-04-19T21:09:00.004-07:002014-04-19T21:09:56.713-07:00March 30: Service ProjectMom! hey hey hey its Elder Lasley!<br />
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so its probably like 8 pm right now? yeah I think so! anyways,</div>
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A little bit about my week! </div>
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It was good.</div>
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thats all.</div>
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just kidding ahaha</div>
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it actually was good. but I will go into
some detail. mostly it was a regular week though. But! on Wednesday, we
finally had a member work with us! In my whole 2 months here in
Dasmarinas we just had a member work with us for the first time! its
legendary! everything is so much easier when you have a member with you,
its crazy! I mean most wards have members work with the missionaries
several times a week, but our ward is a little bit...neglectful? yeah
they just dont really pay as much attention as they should to helping
the missionaries. but theyre abviously getting better because we
actually had a member work with us! So I'm not sure if you know the rule
about elder missionaries not being able to teach a lesson to females if
there isnt another male over 16 present, but that is a rule. and its
usually a rule that Elder Matina and I have a lot of trouble with! not
as in we break the rule, just as in we are so dang obedient, we
never enter a house unless theres another male present, so quite often
we cant have lessons at certain places. like this one place! the
daughter is a recent convert, but hasnt been visited by missoianaries in
over 4 MONTHS because the missoinaires before us just plain didnt visit
her, and every time we tried there was no male present! but finally on
wednesday, we were able to teach her a lesson! her first lesson in 4
MONTHS. way too long. anyways, that was a good experience because she
really wants to be involved in church, but she doesnt know where to
start! Shes 13, and her and her mom are the only members in the family
because her 2 older sisters have live-in spouses and need to get married
first before they can be baptized. so its a difficult situation really.
BUT perhaps that visit was the start of something golden. hopefully.</div>
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anyways, the rest of the week was pretty normal! We are obviously
still visiting Vincent still because he is awesome and wants to be
baptized more than anything, so his scheduled baptismal date is still
April 19! woo hoo! </div>
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we dont really have any other golden investigators right now. we
obviously have others but every single one of them has a problem they
need to resolve first before they can be baptized, whether it be
marriage, a word of wisdom problem, a job on sunday, etc.</div>
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OH we also had a member work with us yesterday actually! so twice this week. its historic. revolutionary.</div>
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oh
and one other thing we did this week! We had a service project and a
family home evening in the sisters area again! it was at an investigator
of theirs, and they were pretty wealthy ahaha. when we got there, the
wife said like oh dont worry about cleaning anything, the yard is
already clean! and we were all like what I thought this was a service
project, so apparently there wasnt very good communication ahaha but
thats okay! we cleaned her yard anyways, and then had dinner and got to
know tha fam! so the wife is filipina and has one filipino child who is
27, and the husband is British! but he lives in africa right now because
he is some kind of engineer doing work over there right now. and
apparently theyre looking in to moving to taiwan because the husband
doesnt like the heat in the philippines. so next week theyre going to
taiwan to look for houses. its pretty weird.</div>
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anwyays, after dinner, we had a family home eveving! which was just
a short lesson, and then an initiation into a filipino secret society
called Booga-Booga. hopefully I can send you guys the video of my
initiation. all it really is, is a prank ahaha.</div>
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but that was about our week! I'll send some pictures.</div>
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things
sound great in flagstaff! hows the weather right now? is it spring yet?
its the middle of the hottest season here right now, and it is just
extremely unfathomably hot every single day from 12pm-5pm, constant
sweating. tomorrow is supposed to be the hottest day of the year too,
yay! 40 degrees celcius which is about 105, and just you know, normal
humidity of around 80%! should be a great day. and! I think I may need
some new socks, in the next package you happen to send, could you
include some dress socks? preferably no super high socks either. I mean
obviously high enough to be dress socks, but not like knee high or
anything. oh oh and also since you havent bought the chinos from pac sun
yet, could you actually make the size on those 33 length and 31 waist?
32 waist would be fine too if thats all they have. but 33 is a better
length. thanks mom! :)</div>
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Love,</div>
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Elder Lasley :)</div>
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-59517037877223754502014-04-19T20:40:00.003-07:002014-04-19T20:41:03.234-07:00March 23: FHE<div class="readMsgBody">
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Hey
family! So I havent recieved an email from you guys yet, but its
totally okay because I understand! you guys are probably driving home
from california as I type! So really its fine if I dont get an email
from you guys today, just make sure next weeks is super awesome! I have a
whole lot of emails this week anyways so I gotta reply to them! SO I'll
just give you guys a brief overview of my week!<br />
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Monday: duh P-day. but after p-day, we were invited to a family home
evening in the sisters area, which was a ton of fun! it was at this old
couples house, whos kids no longer live with them so theyre like super
lonely and we just brightened their day! yay! I'll send some pictures of
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Tuesday: district meeting (just like every tuesday) and regular
missoinary work. nothing big. We did teach Vincent, probably our most
progressing investigator about the law of chastity which is always fun!
yay law of chastity! dont worry he didnt have any problems with it.</div>
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Wednesday: our work today was terrible ahaha. we got punted from
every single plan we had to go to! punted is missionary vocab for every
single place we went to was like "I'm busy right now" or "maybe another
day" or just had some lame excuse ahaha. but its okay, no effort is
wasted! I know the people we opened our mouths to, or stopped by at,
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Thursday: we went to our other area today, the one we dont go to a
whole lot. again, we didnt have many planned places to visit so we did a
lot of finding! we kind of even went actual tracting! and out of that
came 3 new investigators! a single family invited us inside to share a
message, so again, no effort is wasted! it was a good day over all. OH!
also, we were walking around and we saw a white guy! and he called to us
and was like "hows Salt Lake City?" because I guess he knew we were
mormons, so we took the chance to talk to him! it turns out he is from
Germany, working in the Philippines because hes over retirement age in
Germany so he couldnt get any work there, and he says he likes to work,
he doesnt want to just wait until he dies ahaha. hes a porfessional
photographer! anwyays, we talked to him for a few minutes. then he
invited us back on sunday, and said he would buy a "shwarzvelder" or
something like that, which means black forest cake for us when we come
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Sunday!: was super cool! We went to our other area again and again
we were punted a lot, but its okay! we visited a lot of the people that
we foud on thursday but they were either not home or had some excuse
ahah. then we returned to Udo! oh eah thats the German guys name. and he
was actually expecting us! we didnt know if maybe he was just inviting
us back to be nice and wasnt expecting us t actually come back. anyways,
he invited us upstairs and we all three sat on his balcony deck thing
and ate black forest cake! and talked about some of his religious
beliefs, and then talked about ours and we had like a friendly religious
exchange. it was super cool. He didnt exactly have our same beliefs, he
believed a lot about like science haha like a scientologist or
soemthing, but it was still very cool and a great experience! not to
mention interesting. and he invited us back and said he'd take some
pictures of us in his professional studio! which is in his house by the
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-78344020074104939722014-04-19T20:25:00.003-07:002014-04-19T20:25:36.662-07:00March 16: Spoke at Baptism and ANTS!Holy cow! Now thats the kind of letter I'm talking about Lasley family! and guests.<br />
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WHOOOOAAAA SPRING BREAK 2014! I wish I was there, it sounds like a
freakin blast! I've never even been to Magic Mountain! dang. Its like
the whole family except for me ahaha. Hopefully Kyle and Spencer make up
for my absence. </div>
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You guys look great! I love the hat picture! Mom looks like a super
star! ahahaha does she know about that picture? I dont think she would
be okay with you sending it if she knew what she looked like in that
picture. :) My second favorite person in that picture is Sam. He looks
like one of those American Girl dolls. ahaha. and Kyle and Ben naka-bro
tanks, steezin and breezin. "naka-" is tagalog for like "wearing" lol
quick tagalog lesson. and Dad in case you didnt know, "steezin" is swag
language for like "handsome" ahahahahahaha. in tagalog its "pogi"
pronounced like "pogey" hard g. like it rhymes with bogey. like one
above par. in golf.</div>
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ANYWAYS, this week was pretty average in my Filipino life! Wednesday was transfer day! AND</div>
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wasnt transferred. neither was Elder Matina. so no changes there.
ahaha. BUT one of the elders in our house was transferred! remember the
little filipino, Elder Tinasas? he was our district leader, but he got
called to transfer and become a Zone leader! so Elder Haufano's new
companion is Elder Mauvesi, straight outta Fiji! He's super cool. And
Elder Matina was called to be our new district leader! So now our house
has all foreigners, no filipinos, a Canadian (me) an American-Samoan
(Elder Matina) a New Zealander (Elder Haufano) and Fijian! Its like an
islander party plus me because I'm from good old Canada! and now our
district, which consists of us 4 and 4 sister missionaries, is almost
totally foreign also! only one filipina. theres 2 Samoan sisters (one
from australia) an American and a Filipina. its like a foreigner party!
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just kidding thats Pitbull and hes the worst rapper ever created. </div>
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speaking
of rappers, Danny Brown fixed his teeth?! thats like illegal! Ben Kyle
you guys know Crooked Smile by J. Cole? that song is all about J. Cole
not fixing his teeth! Dangit Danny. </div>
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ANYWAYS, another cool thing about his week is that the sister
missionaries in our district so lovingly invited us to their baptism on
Saturday. When me and Elder Matina showed up, they handed us the program
and well would you look at that! Elder Matina and I were just
coincidentally assigned to speak at the baptism ahaha. So we had about 0
minutes preparation, Elder Matina spoke on baptism and the holy ghost,
and I spoke on enduring to the end. in complete tagalog because we're
tagalog bosses now. Elder Matina is still better than me, but I think
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Also tell Ben and Sam I mailed them each a letter this week! I also
mailed Grammy and Pops a letter, and you guys (Mom and Dad) too! I'm
sorry for everyone who is there that I didnt mail a letter to, if you
want one, I would be happy to send one! Especially you, Spencer Larson.
and you Kyle Pilcher. and you Brayden and Payton Orwat. and everyone
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Ben and Sam and Dylan and Nana and Auntie Jen and Uncle Ron and Auntie
Mia and Uncle Robert and Mama Orwat and Brayden and Payton and
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-90655306365981128122014-03-10T22:35:00.002-07:002014-03-10T22:35:44.766-07:00March 9: Mission TourHey Dad and family!
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Hows the fam?! Things are going great here in Dasma! sorry I dont really
have any wild stories this week, it was a regular, normal, same ole, same ole
week for a missionary here in the Philippines! Oh but I do need to ask you guys
something. So on Wednesday, I recieived a package from Maddie (yay) which was
sent on december 12 (ages ago) I only just got it because it was in customs for
like a month, they opened it and everything because it was fairly large, luckily
thy didnt take anything, but they did charge me 3444 pesos for the customs fee,
which is about 80 dollars, and I have to pay it to the mission office on
wednesday, so I was wondering, should I withdraw the money from my wells fargo
bank card? or should I pay for it using mission funds? if I pay for it with
mission funds, I get a docked support fund every support cycle for 3 support
cycles, which means I will have less money to pay for food and transportation
and other necessities. I was thinking taking it out of my bank card would be
better, but what do you guys think?</div>
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anyways, besides that, its still really hot here, but it did rain on
wednesday! maybe rainy season is comin early this year (hopefully)</div>
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I wrote some letters to Ben and Sam and I'll send them out on wednesday so
tel them to expect them! yay!</div>
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Ben is just getting cooler and cooler holy cow what an animal, playin
lacrosse and showin fools up! thats my brother out there!</div>
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Sam is still doin his thang, ballin hard, how many girlfriends does he
currently have? dang whata stud</div>
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the house looks awesome! I'd like to see a picture of the inside when its
complete! I'm excited to come home to such a changed house ahaha. Niles sounds
like same ole Niles, and I hope Jasmine and Kitty are doin their things too! I
miss all the animals ahaha.</div>
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Oh my I almost forgot! ON wednesday we had this thing called mission tour,
which is when an area president from the 70 comes and tours all the missions in
the philippines! so Elder Neilson of the 70 and the Philippines area presidency
came to the cavite mission and we had a huge devotional that lasted like 5 hours
where we got to hear Elder Neilson speak about missoinary work and other things
and also from President Tye and Sister Tye and Elder Neilsons wife! It was a
great experience and very spiritual. it was with about half the mission too, so
there was a lot of people there (he did two, one the next day for the other half
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that is about the only major happening this week.</div>
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I haven't tried any new foods lately, but I'm always open to new ones! I'll
keep you guys posted.</div>
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that spider was about the size of my hand! and they get bigger!</div>
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ahaha 8:00 is usually a last-lesson appointment because curfew is 9:30
ahah, so its a convenient time for us missionaries. I do look very forward to
Mother's day when I will be skyping (yes it most likely will be on mothers day!)
I'm excited to see you guys again! </div>
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Have a great week all of you, I love you guys and miss you! Stay golden
Lasley family.</div>
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-67319603856110251492014-03-10T22:25:00.002-07:002014-03-10T22:25:25.274-07:00March 2 2014: Basketball and Service DayFamily! Hows it going?!
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This week was honestly a pretty wild week. mostly just like 1 and a half
days but it was still crazy. the craziest day was by far tuesday. but I'll start
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so after I emailed you guys last week, we went to a big mall called SM Pala
Pala and bought me a new camera! I got this super nice Sony Cyber-Shot. dang its
nice. its very nice and everyone i show it to is pretty jealous. after that, we
went to a nice restaurant called Shakeys because it was Elder Matinas birthday
last Friday! we each spent like 300 pesos on some bomb food. then we bought a
basketball so we could start playing basketball everyday! then we went home and
whatever yeah okay so TUESDAY. So we woke up about 30 minutes early to go play
some ball! so we played, you know just shot around for a while, then I decided i
wanted to try and dunk, so just to warm up I jumped up and grabbed the rim and
SNAP the rim broke. the welding literally broke. so the rim was just hanging
there in the backboard. so we got the owner of the court guy and we had to take
the rim down and go find a place to get it welded. this took like 45 minutes. we
finally found a place to get it welded, where it was free, and while we were
waiting there for the welder, we started talking to the people around and
actually found a less active member! too bad it wasnt in our area though ahah.
anyways, that all ended t around 9, and we went back to the court and screwed
the newly welded rim back into place, then went home to get ready for the day
ahaha. so later that day, while we were proselyting, we were just walking and
all of the sudden, this old guy just stops us and starts yelling at us in broken
english/tagalog. he starts like chastizing us and telling us that missionaries
should go into every house they see and preach the word of God to every single
person "no matter if theyre poor or rich" and we just nodded our heads in
agreement the whole time this guy was just yelling at us. then finally when he
was finished, we gave him a pamphlet and said we would come back the next day
ahahah it was pretty weird. alright so next, a little bit later, we were on our
way to another appointment, this like 20 year old guy who we had met a few days
earlier called us over to him. he and a couple of his friends were just chillin,
eating lugaw (rice soup kinda thing) so they gave us some and then invited us to
their house. so we walked with them to their house and they let us sit down in
there front yard. then they walked away and came back a moment later with this
lady wearing full on muslim atire, and a man wearing a muslim type
thing. they sat in front of us, asked us our religion, and then IMMEDIATELY
started bashing us with weird doctrine and were just hatin on every Christian
everywhere, we just happened to be their target. it lasted for about 30 minutes,
and every time we tried to say something, they interrupted us and started
talking about some other "false" belief of ours. after around 30 minutes, Elder
Matina tactfully ended the conversation and said "this is more of a one sided
arguement/debate then a sharing, so were going to leave. but thank you for your
time." so we got up and left. while we were leaving they said "bukas ulit!"
which means "tomorrow, again!" and we just shook our heads and walked away in
shame. but not actual shame because I mean, God was on our side because we didnt
do anything to bash any other churches, we simply attempted to state our
beliefs. That's why LDS missionaries are so much different than other churches
missionaries! I'm proud to be a member of a church that doesn't bad mouth other
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Then on wednesday, it was mission service day! so the whole Dasmarinas
zone, about 35 missionaries, all went to a city super close to Tagaytay called
Alfonso and cleaned a dragonfruit field! we used little like scythe things, kind
of like a sickle, and just hacked away at tons of weeds for about 2 hours.
dragonfruit is super weird! it wasn't ripe yet, so we just got to see the plants,
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oh also, on wednesday morning, I DUNKED. I legitimately slam dunked! I have
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thats awesome that Harrison's going to Germany for his mission! I bet he flipped! Germany is
like his favorite place on the face of the Earth ahaha. hes already been taking
German now for like 3 years too! that should be awesome. I'm gonna write him one
of these days!</div>
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Ben and Sam are still being awesome! I wrote Ben and Sam each a letter, they
should get there in a week or two! </div>
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I would still like those pants, but no rush, let mom do her sale thing
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Flag High second place in state? holy cow! I wish I could've been at that
game oh my gosh. how wild! too bad the next Mike Bibby had to steal the
championship from them. dang, since 1975 still.</div>
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I'm gonna write Grammy an actual letter and mail it to her! I really hope
she starts improving.</div>
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that's awesome that you guys went to the temple dedication broadcast! I'm
jealous! </div>
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Yes we do have jeepnies here! I dont really like them ahaha. we mostly just
walk though, lots and lots of walking. but I havent lost or gained any weight,
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-5349800141937498602014-03-10T22:01:00.002-07:002014-03-10T22:01:42.864-07:00Feb 23 2014: My Pet GoatHey Dad! and the rest of the family!<br />
Sounds like things are going great in Flagstaff, lots of trips to phoenix for sports, basketball and lacrosse! thats awesome. I'm still impressed that Sam and Ben are doin so awesome at their own individual sports, I wish I could be there to watch some games! Just make sure Sam is still playing basketball when I get home and that Ben plays lacrosse his senior year too, so I can watch them!
To answer your question about the camera, I haven't bought one yet, but I am planning to later today! We're going to a bigger mall later after we email and they have this huge place called CyberZone witht literally anything technology related, so I will buy a pretty nice camera. I agree, if I just bought a cheap one, I might have to buy 2 or even 3 more by the end of my mission, but if I get a pretty nice one, it should last me the rest of my time here. Dont worry about putting money on my card or anything, I have plenty of spending money, but I may need to withdraw 2000-3000 pesos (dont worry thats only about $60) to help pay for it. We'll see!<br />
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The beach last week was actually a blast! I thought it was going to be disappointing because we couldnt actually do much beach related activities, but I hung out with two new missionaries from our zone, Elder Erickson from Edmonton (yeah Canada!) and Elder Hansen from Washtington, who are super cool guys! We just beach combed and messed around in the ankle deep water ahaha it was fun. I had them take a lot of pictures so they can email them to me and then I will email them to you next week! the trip to the beach was about an hour long van ride, we had two vans for about 40 people, so it was packed beyond belief. Not a very comfortable ride as you can imagine. we first tried to go to a more famous beach, but to get there, you have to cross through a Philippine Marine base for some reason, so when we were trying to cross through, we got stopped and told we couldnt pass because there were too many undocumented foreigners (obviously we didnt have any ids or passports on us), so we had to go to another less popular beach, but it was still a blast. we were at the beach fro around 2 hours, then another hour long bus ride home. You guys should look up pictures on google images or something of the beach we were at! its called Ternate beach, Cavite. check it out!<br />
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this week our work was better than last week, but it still wasnt great. Honestly we just dont have enough ward missionaries work with us! For my 4 and a half weeks so far in this ward, we havent had one ward missionary work with us, and its really starting to effect our work. The reason is because we need at least one other man over the age of 16 to be with us for us to teach a lesson to a female. and many of our planned lessons are with single females, or families where the husband is rarely home. but nevertheless, we work hard and find people to teach! We focused a lot on finding through our own efforts this week. Just talking to people outside there houses, or along the street and tactfully turning it into a gospel centered conversation. its quite a talent ahaha. So we've started building a solid pool of potential investigators.<br />
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I dont really have any other stories to tell this week, it was a hard week for work, but we will turn up next week and I wil have stories for days hopefully!
I did receive the valentines day care package little thing with cheap candy, but I have not yet replied to Bens letter! I'm actaully planning on sending something home with it so it may take a while, but Ben will be very happy I imagine. so tell him to be patient! I miss him too! I mean I miss all of you guys, but I feel like I havent talked to Ben in forever, and we used to talk a lot ahaha.
alright, I have to go here pretty soon, but I'm gonna send some pictures that Elder Matina has from his camera so you'll actually get some pictures this week!
I love you guys and miss you a lot! Stay golden lasley family.<br />
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Love,
Elder Lasley!<br />
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-75665995704787819652014-03-10T21:43:00.000-07:002014-03-10T21:44:23.603-07:00Feb 16 2014: Dockers and the Beach Hey Family!
I wish it felt like Flagstaff Spring here! it mostly just feels like Dante's Inferno. Its pretty freakin hot right now, and the hottest month of the year isnt even until April :( I'm not looking forward to it. literally you step outside and start sweating. immediately.
This week was crazy busy! On tuesday we had a zone meeting, with our whole zone, for 3 hours! Elder Zacarias, my fisrt companion, is in our zone, so I got to see him, it was pretty cool. then on Thursday we had interviews with President and Sister Tye! It was great to see and talk weith them. During my interview with Sister Tye, she noticed my pants didnt have a defined crease in them and said "Are those dress slacks? because they look a little bit more like Dockers to me. I dont think Dockers are allowed" and I was like "Oh I was not aware of that. Dockers are all I have!" and she said "if its okay with you, I would ask you to buy some real dress slacks" so I just said "okay, yeah I can definitely do that" I was kind of shocked to be called out like that. anyways, then yesterday, Sister Tye texts me and says "I was looking on the missionary website online and actually it doesnt say anything about dockers being unacceptable so dont buy new pants!" then she apologized to me for calling me out and she felt really bad and I was just like "Sister its completely fine, I totally understand dont worry about it!" ahahah it was funny. then she told us that Elder Matinas mom called her a JOY on a blog comment and I said well you are a joy sister Tye! boom brownie points. its safe to say she loves me. I mean she loves all of us missionaries, but me a little bit more probably. just kidding :)
ahah thats funny that you guys and Elder Matinas mom are chattin a little bit! She told Elder Matina in her email to him that she read my blog a little bit then looked us all up on facebook ahah mission moms are all the same! Me and Elder Matina get along great. We're about the same age, we both like sports and stuff and we have a lot of the same interests! No lie, hes a little bit better than me at tagalog, but its okay. but I'm getting better everday still! I knoiw how to say "good morning" in three filipino dialects! ready?
Tagalog: Magandang umaga!
Ilacono: Naimbag nga bigat!
Cebuano: Maayong buntag!
yay filipino dialects! and I'm still in the process of learning good morning in another dialect called Waray.
Now i have a funny story about one of our investigators! his name is Vincent! and hes like 40 i think. anyways, we taught him on saturday afternoon and invited him to come to church on sunday at 9 am so he said he would come. when we got to church on sunday, we didnt see him, so we were kinda sad. anyways, after church, we were in our ward council meeting and then elder Matina looks out the window and sees him standing outside the church. so we rush out of the class and go talk to him! so he says that he woke up at 6 o clock in the morning but he thought to himself "church doesnt start until 9, I can go back to sleep and wake up again at 8 and be fine" so he went back to sleep and when he woke up again it was 9:30! so he hurried and got dressed and came to church at around 10:30. but he couldnt fine us or anyone he knew so he asked some guy what he could do, and the man he asked told him that there was another sacrament meeting at 1, so VIncent went home, ate lunch and cam back at 12:30, which is when we saw him. so we talked to him and said by all means he could still go to church at 1 just we wouldnt be there, but he said that is just fine because he wanted to attend church so badly! so he weent to church at 1 until 4. ahaha it was awesome! He is a great guy.
oh and today we have a zone activity! we're going to the beach. but we arent allowed to swim. its kind of sad. but the beach is still fun! but I felt like the ocean will just be taunting me the whole time :( anwyays, I will take pictures! just kidding because my memory card is broken :( I may use some of the money I have to buy a new camera. is that okay? because I cant live without taking pictures! theres so much to take a picture of here! it will be like the only thing I've bought in like 2 months. ahaha.
now for a small scoop on my new area! the area itself is much smaller than Bacoor, but the city of Dasmarinas is much bigger! in the whole city of Bacoor, there were 4 missionaries, in the city of Dasmarinas there are 10 or 12 I think? so each area is much smaller! so we spend a lot less money on transportation, we just walk everywhere. my calves are getting YOKED. ahahah. we are farther from the mission home then I was in Bacoor, so we rarely, rarely go there. actaully i havent ever been to the mission home. the mission office and the missoin home are in completely different cities! you probably meant the mission office ahaha. in my opinion it is much prettier here than it was in Bacoor! and the people are just as friendly. so I like it here a lot better than I did Bacoor!
anyways, its about time for me to go now, we have an hour bus ride to the beach ahah. I love you guys and miss you tons! stay golden, Lasley family. :)
Love,
Elder Lasley
Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-74898210205461712442014-02-12T07:30:00.000-08:002014-02-12T07:30:11.613-08:00Week 18: Dasmarinas<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Hey family! I'll reply to Dad’s letter today because I feel
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Sounds like things are going great in Flagstaff, Arizona!
Speaking of Ben and Sam’s basketball, I played basketball this morning with a
couple other missionaries and some local teenagers. It was super fun. My
companion, Elder Matina, is pretty much unstoppable, being 6'3" 260lbs, he’s
a pretty good post player as you can imagine. He's Shaq and I'm Kobe! Also, I am
extremely close to dunking. Every morning for personal exercise, I'm going to
start doing some calf raises and squats and get my vertical back up to where it
was during track season, 36". Give it a month or two, I'll be dunking. :)</div>
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You know, we actually don’t have the Ensign here, we get the
Liahona, which is like a mix of the Ensign, New Era and Friend, so I haven't
read that talk yet, but I hope too! I love President Monson, he really knows
what he doing haha. That last part of the quote, the part about us being the
Lord's hands, is actually the Cavite Mission's mission theme! Sister Tye picked
it when the mission was created back in June, I think it's actually an original
quote by the big bad Gordon B. Hinckley himself. I really like it, it’s a great
quote. It definitely is very important to always strive to serve others, no
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This week has been great, hot, but great. Like extremely
hot. Very very very very hot. From 12:30 to 3 it’s literally so hot we can
barely step in the sunlight. The moment the clock turned 12 we started sweating
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But we are starting to find more investigators and some less
actives in our area also! We still don’t know the members super well, but we
should start getting to know them better because we have like 4 dinner
appointments this week! Last week we had NONE. We starved, I probably lost
weight. Maybe. I probably lost weight just from sweating so much actually. Then
combined with little food, I honestly may have lost weight! Crazy. Anyways, we
found 3 families this week who are interested in hearing from us, it’s awesome!
During the lesson, the father in one of the families was like "there are
so many churches and I just don’t know which one to attend! I feel lost. So I started
thinking maybe we don’t need religion to save us. But then I had a talk with my
sister and she said that having a religion and a familiarity with God in life
is very important, so I said I would continue looking for the right church. That
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faith by praying to God, asking which church was true. We invited him to do
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that we hadn't really done much exploring of yet, and saw this white guy
talking to 2 teenagers (Filipino obviously), so we decided to go practice our English
speaking skills and talk to him. Turns out he was Dutch, from the Netherlands. But
he has a house here in Dasmarinas because he’s getting old and the winters in
the Netherlands
are pretty freakin cold I guess, so he’s here for like 6 months of the year. Anyways,
we were talking with him a little bit and he started gettin pretty weird, sayin
stuff about the "young girls" here in the Philippines. It turns our he was
actually a 58 year old Dutch man trying to get with 19 year old Filipino girls.
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Oh also, I forgot to mention last P-day, I got my birthday
package! And it was awesome! Thank you guys so much! Especially Ben, those Pink
Dolphin shirts are dope. And I can’t believe you guys got me the Blvck Scvle Philippines
shirt! It is tooooooooo cool! Thank you guys so much! Most of the candy I gave
away to members in Bacoor because actually I received the package on my last
day in Bacoor, about two weeks ago. I'm sure they were happy about the candy
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Anyways, that’s about all I have to say this week! Mom about
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pants, my size is 31x32, 31 inch waist and 32 inch length! And a khaki/tannish
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I did transfer I did I did! I am now in a city called Dasmarinas,
which is about two cities farther South than Bacoor, so it is up a bit higher
in a mountain range! So it’s a little bit cooler (emphasis on a little bit) and
we get a cool breeze every now and then! It's also much cleaner and smells
better than Bacoor did haha. My new companion situation is super cool! So my
companions name is Elder Matina, and he is a 6'3" half Samoan half
American! So actually he’s American, and was in the MTC the same time I was! We
are the exact same age in the mission ahahah! I met him maybe once at the MTC
but never really got to know him, and now we're companions! So he’s in my same
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split the area, so we are doing what is called a shotgun, where neither of the
missionaries of the companionship have ever been in the area where they are
serving. ahah so its pretty wild! Neither of us know the area, the members, the
investigators, anything really, but we do get a lot of help from the other two missionaries
in our apartment who know the area quite well, Elder Haufano a rugby player
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-21843063423319381662014-02-12T06:44:00.002-08:002014-02-12T07:09:48.229-08:00Week 16: My Birthday!Mom! its your son!
I'm mostly going to reply to Dad's email this week because I believe I replied to your last week, but I'll answer a few of our questions now!
About the chinos, I cant remember what size the ones I'm wearing here are, but there probably 31x32 like most of the pants I wear. so if that is a possible size, that would be fine! And I would like a khaki/brownish pair and a black pair! Also, I have another pair of khaki ones that I'm pretty sure I left at home, if they are still at home, could you send those too? So all in all if you find those ones from home, I would possibly be receiving two khaki/brownish pairs and one black pair! Oh, actually if they have a conservative navy color, I would take that over the black. alright yeah that’s all. :)
Awww I wish I could be watching American Idol with you guys! I heard there's no more Randy and there’s a new judge in place of him!? NO MORE RANDY JACKSON? Is that even legal? But oh cool, Salt Lake City auditions should be interesting!
I'm gonna reply to Dad's email about my week and stuff so watch for that one!
I love you! Byeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Dad! and Ben and Sam and Mom!
Hey you guys! Sounds like things are going great in Flagstaff! Busy busy busy man. Basketball and lacrosse and W.L.Gore and Associates and driving everyone around until Ben gets his license, crazy! AND now you guys are celebrities with your picture in the newspaper! Flagstaff celebrities! Has anyone asked you for autographs? You guys are pretty much famous! :) No but that’s really cool though haha. At least you look pretty thug in your picture Dad.
And how the heck is it already my 19th birthday?! That's crazy! I've been on this earth for 19 years! And 0.5 of those years I have lived in the Philippines! That means for 1/38 of my life I have lived in Asia! What? Crazy.
So the transfer day got switched to Thursday for some reason, so it is no longer on my birthday. But that means I get to spend my birthday in my first area still! Yay! And yes I am most likely getting transferred. I officially find out tonight if I will be, but I'm pretty sure I will be. I'm a little bit nervous, a little bit excited, but I'm fine with whatever happens! Whatever it is it’s meant to be.
ahahah I totally understand the missionaries now that I am one. When an appointment falls through, called getting punted, we just say "hmm what members live in this area?" and go give them a quick visit! ahah and we always know the member that cooks the best.
Anyways, this week was just fine! We did quite well in our work this week, We had a lot of appointments, and the ones we were punted from ended well because we were able to go to other people so it all worked out yay!
We have a group of three investigators that we are focusing on lately. They are the cousins of a member, three young women, 13,15 and 17, and they are great! They are super interested and love to ask questions and have them answered aha. They’ve come to church 3 times now, so they are really looking like great baptismal candidates. We're excited!
Other than that, everything is pretty normal. Tonight, we have a family home evening at the famous Nanay’s s house, the 85 year old feisty grandma, who is by far the best cook in our area, and I think they are planning on celebrating my birthday! They already gave me a gift (which I opened early) of a sweet new journal! So tonight should be fun. This week, before transfer day, I'll most likely spend a lot of time packing and cleaning and saying bye to members and investigators that I've gotten close to, but that’s really all, not much work will be done before Thursday. There’s never much work on a transfer week.
Anyways, I'll send some pictures now!
I love you guys, and miss you all a ton!
Love,
Elder Lasley :)<br />
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-7644358269410644052014-01-19T21:27:00.001-08:002014-01-19T21:27:55.356-08:00Week 15: More TeachingHey Mom! Dad emailed me earlier this week also, so I'll just reply to both of them now. ahaha So a little bit about my week! We had two baptisms last week, which you should already know probably because I'm pretty sure I mentioned it in last weeks email, but anyways, again, it was great! John, the 9 year old, is like a little brother to me, ahaha He's crazy and funny and reminds me of Sam! He doesn't care much about what he wears, he just lets his mom dress him ahaha. He has an older brother who's 12 who reminds me surprisingly of Ben too! He really likes this streetwear brand here in the Philippines called Tribal and he loves to wear bro tanks and play basketball! Their Mom is super cool, shes a single Mom right now because their father is living in Cebu (another city in the Peenz) but she handles it great and is raising those children like a champion. The father is still in the picture right now, theyre still married and he calls and talks to everyone like 3 times a day, it's a pretty complicated situation that I dont feel cleared to share with the general public so sorry ahah. Anyways, yeah theyre great. The other recent convert of ours is named Allan and he's a 42 year old father of 5! He was the only one in his family hearing from us so is now the only member of his family, but he is excited to have the rest of his family start hearing from us! Which is just awesome. He's a great guy too. More recently, we have contacted about 3 new investigators who are just GOLDEN which means they already want to be baptized after only the first lesson pretty much. One of them is a 62 year old super funny lady. The first time we contacted her, it was actually Elder Acosta and Elder Grant, one of our zone leaders, because I was on exchanges in another area working with the other zone leader. So this week we had our second lesson with her and I met her and got to know her a little bit! Shes super funny and told me atleast 3 times how handsome I was ahaha. She even asked me if I had a girlfriend, and when I said yes she said "oh who? is it her?" pointing at one of our ward missionaries ahaha. She's awesome. Anyways, as we were teaching her about the restoration, she was super interested especially in that Joseph Smith guy :). While it was my turn to teach, she was surprised I could speak tagalog so well! Which is good to hear, because even though I'm not satisfied, people seem to be recognizing that I'm getting better. Anyways, while I was teaching I could tell she was honestly listening and super interested. and she was patient with my speaking abilities which is always nice ahaha. So Dad just emailed me a good one! So I'll reply to it in this email too. Actually it was mostly the same stuff but thats okay ahaha. Anyways, other than that my week was pretty normal for an American missionary in the Philippines! Sounds like everything is great up there in Flagstaff! I love seeing pictures of Ben and Sam, they look great. I miss them! a lot, and you guys too. It's awesome how Ben is trying all these new things, he's gonna kill lacrosse just like he did cross country! Tell him the next sport he should try is Polo. It's only for rich people I think, but its super unique. :) And Sam is still destroying in his basketball! That kid's crazy. I hope he plays in college, I could see it. It's okay, I'll be home before then anyways so I'll be there to train him. ;) And you and Dad are doing great, same with the animals! Its' cool to here about Kevin Fox, I hope to see an email from him in the near future! Dang, I remember when he left. During my sophomore year! I'm glad he's home safe and sound. Regarding supplies and stuff, a couple pairs of dress socks couldn't hurt. I accidentally bleached a few pairs of mine so I have like 3 pairs of orangeish brown socks ahaha. My shoes are holding up great! No problem there. Oh, also! If pac sun still sells those chinos, they are great for proselyting! I wear the two pairs I brought and I like them a lot better than the dockers pants. If you could maybe send me like two pairs of those, one khaki and one black, that would be awesome! Thanks :) Other than that, everything is fine! I may possibly transfer this upcoming transfer date which is on MY BIRTHDAY ahaha. Kinda bad luck there, but its okay. Honestly I would like to stay in this area for just one more transfer! I don't want to leave quite yet. haha. I should go now, but I love you guys and I love hearing from you! You all have a wonderful week and DO WORK LASLEYS. Love, Elder Lasley :) Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-14549476585921037002014-01-14T22:04:00.001-08:002014-01-14T22:04:09.016-08:00Week 14: Baptism!<div dir="ltr">
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Its great to be able to taste the fruits of your labors. They were both super
prepared and will be great members of the church. One of them is
a 42 year old father and is now the only member in his family. He has 5 children
and a wife and after he was baptized, he said "they're next!" ahahah. It made us
super happy. He knows what he did was the right decision and he wants to see the
rest of his family follow in his footsteps. So we plan to begin teaching the
rest of his family soon. we would love to be able to complete his family and be
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get work done and still manage to have a many laughs throughout the day. I have
no problems with him at all! I hope he thinks the same haha. We get along great
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spent learning songs on the ukulele! I'm thinking of buying one actually. They're
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actual birthday is on a transfer day, when I am most likely being transferred,
so I'd rather celebrate my birthday with families I have gotten to know in this
area than families I will have just met once I transfer, so we're gonna
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always worried he would be one of those kids who doesn't want to do anything more
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ahahah They're the best! We should get that picture put on t shirts and send one
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-87704843892368359532013-12-17T06:08:00.003-08:002013-12-17T06:10:52.890-08:00Week 12: Mission Christmas PartyFamily! Hey there! I'm here!<br />
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miss that familiar hustle and bustle around the house at this time. Nothing's changed here! Although, yesterday,we did have a Mission Christmas party! Every missionary in the whole Cavite Mission! It was
tons of fun. We had a small gift exchange (I gave an R&B Christmas
Hits album, and received a dispicable me mug and double a batteries
ahaha), played games, had a zone talent show, had a devtional and a
picture slideshow which Sister Tye said she was going to put on the
Cavite Mission facebook page, so look out for that. I am featured in it
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we have a transfer meeting, and Elder Zacarias is getting transferred! Actually, he's training a new missionary again! Crazy. Which means I will
be staying in Bacoor, but will be getting a new companion! I guess his
name is Elder Acosta, I haven't met him yet, but I've heard good things
about him. I will be the junior companion still, but I'll be leading the
area! I'm really nervous. Hopefully I've listened and understood enough
of the Tagalog I've heard from our investigators to know whats going on
around here. ahahah. We have at least two investigators who are really
progressing and on their way to baptism right now. One is a 54 year old
man named Allen and the other is a 9 year old boy named John! John's mom and dad and older brother are actually members, but
after his older brother was baptized, they fell into inactivity so John
was never baptized. But they have started coming to church again and he
is really looking forward to his baptism! If he is baptized, it will be a
completed family and a less active family brought back into activity! It's really great. But now since Elder Zacarias is leaving, it's up to me
to finish up his teaching and get him baptized! That's what's making me
nervous, I'm getting a whole lot more responsibility, which is great! But it'll be tough. but I'm up for it, I think I can do this! With Heavenly
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first! So about skyping on Christmas! So there is one internet shop
where I would be able to skype, but its not private, it would be very
weird. But I'd be okay with it! So we can definitely skype. It would
probably be around 10 o'clock here, which would be Christmas eve around 7
o'clock in Flag. If it's better, I could actually skype you guys on the
26th, which would make it Christmas night there? Tell me what the better
date is for me to skype on. I would also really love to talk with
Maddie, so maybe you guys could have her over at the house for just like
an hour on Christmas eve? I guess I'll have to make a skype
account next week though. no worries, everything should work out fine.
It would be great if you guys could contact Maddie and make sure if it's
okay for her to come over for an hour or two on Christmas eve though!</div>
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Elder Lasley :)</div>
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-11491168468428965072013-12-09T06:22:00.000-08:002013-12-09T06:22:04.371-08:00Week 11: 10 Kilos of SpagehettiFamily!<br />
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First of all, I'm so sorry about last week! We had a Zone
Activity in Tagaytay City again, so we had to email from 9 until 10 in
the morning and i hadn't received any emails from you guys, so I didn't
want to write you guys unless I had something to reply to, so I asked
the zone leaders if I would be allowed to finish my emailing after the
activity, at around 8pm and they said that would be fine. so after the
zone activity, I guess without me knowing, elder zacarias planned a
lesson that we had to go to. We actually aren't suppossed to work on
p-days where we have zone activities, so when he told me we had an
appointment, I was pretty unhappy. so I said "alright lets go, we need
to make it quick so I can finish my emails" but nope it wasn't quick, it
didn't end until 10pm, so I didn't get a chance to email you guys! I was
not happy. I love hearing from you guys! </div>
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anyways, about the zone activity, it was a blast! I love hanging
out with the other missionaries in our zone. we went to tagaytay city
again, but this time we went to a different area of the city and it was
absolutely beautiful! about half way through, a cloud blew into the park
we were at and it got totally foggy. we couldn't see about 50 feet in
front of us, it was wild. and the wind picked up and it started raining,
it was crazy! I'll send some pics a little bit later.</div>
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Thanksgiving sounded like a blast! what a crazy couple days. I
would've loved to have been there with all you guys! Thanksgiving here
was just a normal day. we didn't even eat well haha. that friday though
the bishop took us out to dinner at yellowcab! its a pizza place and I'm
pretty sure they have them in the US? anyways, it was pretty awesome. A
funny story about church on Sunday now! So in elders quorum, of what I
could understand, we were discussing a ward Christmas lunch that was to
be had after church the next week (yesterday) and everyone was yelling
out foods that should be brought. I guess, everyone was yelling out
foods they were going to bring, which I didn't understand, I just thought
they were yelling out foods that should be brought by someone, so I
raised my hand and yelled "10 kilos of spaghetti!" because everyone was
yelling 10 kilos of the different foods. so the elders quorum president
said "okay elder missionaries will bring 10 kilos of spaghetti!" and I
was very shocked because I was not expecting that I would bring the
spaghetti so I said "oh what no on I cant do that!" so he said "alright,
not 10 kilos, but you're bringing spaghetti." and I kind of shrunk down
in my seat like "oh my what did I just get myself into" and the other 3
missionaries told me they weren't gonna help me, so I was even more sad
ahahah.</div>
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anyways, that week was very normal. the next story I will tell you about happened yesterday actually, it was an awesome day!</div>
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So,
on Saturday night, Elder Zacarias and I went to the grocery store so I
could buy my materials needed to make spaghetti. so I bought two kilos
of noodles, two kilos of sauce, and a kilo of ground pork! it cost a
good chunk of my support money so i wanted it to be awesome.</div>
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so the next day, we had church at 8:30am! and I was told I would be
able to cook the spaghetti at the church because the lunch was at
11:30am, so I brought the 5 kilos of ingredients to church! oh and
before church we picked up an investigator and walked probably about 2
miles with a 10 pound backpack ahaha not fun. anyways, apparently,
whoever was supposed to bring the stove so we could cook our spaghetti,
forgot to. so we were frantically running around trying to find a
place where we could cook my dang spaghetti! but to no avail :( we ended
up not even cooking it for the lunch, so all my preparation had gone to
waste. it was literally heartbreaking. </div>
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so i ate the Christmas lunch in shame. without spaghetti. anyways,
after the lunch, we had ward coordination meeting with all of the ward
missionaries! so we talked about stuff and it was great and then, since
elder zacarias had to go to another zone to do some baptismal
interviews, we split! I went with 4 ward missionaries and he went with
one. Me and the 4 went to two investigators houses and had two great
lessons! it was a huge huge HUGE help having the ward missionaries
there, mostly because they could speak fluent tagalog and I still sound
like a 5 year old child ahaha. we went to one investigator who we've
been teaching for like 3 months now and should've been baptized 2 months
ago but we've had to delay and delay because she recently gave birth,
and now she cant be baptized until shes married to the baby daddy! and
it isn't looking good. apparently she is a Malaysian citizen and has
overstayed her welcome in the philippines so if they try to go to the
city and get the marriage paperwork done and stuff, they will find out
shes an illegal alien and she may be deported or have to serve jail
time. its a HUUUUUGE deal and we just have no idea what to do. we're
just gonna let it simmer for a while.</div>
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anyways, after that appointment, we went to another appointment at
this area where a whole bunch of children (and their families, but we
only teach the children) live and we teach them all pretty often,. so
we taught them and it went great and in the middle of the lesson two
kids found a frog and were poking it with a stick and throwing it and
stuff so i saved a frogs life and told them to put in back in the water
ahahaha it was funny. i was like steve irwin. after both those lessons,
we went to the house of a member and COOKED MY SPAGHETTI finally! it
wasn't to waste! it was awesome. us 4 missionaries and 8 ward missionaries
ate 2 kilos of spaghetti and just had fun and talked and laughed and it
was a blast!</div>
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the rest of the work has been quite normal, always spiritual, but
no specific stories to tell. I'll especially look for one this week
though and I'll send a story next week! Transfer day is in a week and 2
days! I may be transferred to a different area! holy cow it's scary! and
we have a mission Christmas party on the 16, that'll be a blast too.
these next few weeks should be awesome!</div>
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I love to hear about family matters! I miss you guys a lot.
everyone looks great! even "Adam" ;) ahahah thanks for including me! </div>
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anyways, that's all for this week, I'll send some pictures and answer some questions from dads email now. I love you guys! </div>
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Love, Elder Lasley</div>
Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-17139933286862003222013-11-27T11:56:00.000-08:002013-11-27T11:56:03.160-08:00Week 9: Exchanges and BalutMom! Dad! Family! Hey!<br />
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Greetings from the big P. I. yeaaaaahhhh boiiiiiii ahahah anyways...</div>
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This week has been great! </div>
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First
before I forget, the package got here on November 16! But I wasn't able
to open it until yesterday ahahah. because, they kept it at the mission
office for almost a week because they thought it was for Christmas! So a
missionary told me there was a package for me at the mission office so I
asked them to pick it up for me which they did! And then I opened it
last night and we had some fun ahahha. Thank you guys so much! Some
American snacks, well French I guess, were great. I already finished a
box of the petite ecolier ahaha and the peach gunmmies! Don't worry, I
shared. I gave my housemates and Elder Zacarias each a Santa hat and
signed them each "from Elder Lasley" ahaha and put up the Christmas
stickers and lights in our study room! its very festive.</div>
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I went to a funeral on Saturday night, a very strange experience.
there was an open casket and everything! It was for the 38 year old son
of a member. He passed away from heart complications due to a heart
condition and pneumonia. I told Elder Zacarias I had had pneumonia
before and he said "and you didn't die? oh wow!" ahaha I don't know if he
knows it's not like a deadly fatal illness. Anwyays, funerals here are
very strange! There's obviously mourning and consolation and all, but
afterwards, everyone stay up all night and gambles, talks, joke and
laughs and play cards and stuff ahaha it's so weird. I told Elder Zacarias what funerals are like in America and he was shocked ahaha.</div>
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I'll tell you one story about one of our investigators! So his name
is Peter and we've been teaching him for a while actually. Just a few
weeks ago, we started hearing rumors from his friends that we would see
occasionally that he was involved in a homosexual relationship, that's
why he was traveling to Manila so often, so we got a little bit
worried. Anyways, last Monday, right before we were about to go and teach
him, he texted us and said he didn't want to hear from us anymore! We
were both shocked and sad and didn't know what to think! So three times
this week we tried to contact him, but he wouldn't answer our calls,
reply to our texts, and every time we visited, he wasn't home! So we just
used our patience aahaha. and then the fourth time we went to his house,
he was home! And he agreed to sit down and talk with us. During this
time he explained that he was in Manila so often because he was in the
process of applying and being interviewed for a job there! its a pretty
good gig for him so we really hope he gets it. anyways, he explained that
he said he didn't want to hear from us anymore because he was afraid
getting this job would make him just too busy for any time to hear from
us or read scriptures or pray. so we explained to him that if he gets the
job, as long as he sincerely tries to read his scriptures and pray
even just a little bit sometime during his hectic day, Heavenly father
would provide a way for him to hear from us occasionally. he really
loves our message and the gospel and we really hope he continues to try
hard to choose the right and read the scriptures and we look forward to
times when we can hear from him!</div>
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oh! also! i had the opportunity to go on two companion exchanges
recently! one with our zone leader, Elder Grant, who's from Valencia
California! we made great friends and we talk whenever we can haha, we
have a lot of the same interests. it was a lot of fun! and the other was
with a Filipino named Elder Hora who did not speak very good English at
all. he spoke 4 other filipino dialects, but english just did not come
easily. so it was a bit of a challenge, but it really improved my
understanding skills. I walked by faith a lot that day ahahaha because I
just couldn't understand him a lot ahaha but it was a great experience.</div>
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sounds like life at home is awesome! I miss you all and just the usual home life ahaha. but its great here still!</div>
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I
would've loved to help coach Sam's team ahaha that sounds like a blast. I
found a Versace shirt at a thrift store here! I'm not sure if its real
or not, but I bought it just in case.and that highschool NJB sounds
awseome too. Ben and Kyle and Brad are gonna have a blast!</div>
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Thanksgiving in Palm Springs sounds like its gonna be great! I'm
jealous! I would love to be in Palm Desert with the family, they don.t
celebrate thanksgiving here abviously, but maybe I'll convince everyone
to help me buy a chicken or something for dinner ahaha.</div>
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yeah I do remember meeting her! congratualtions Austin! that's awesome! oh the Johnson family is gonna be crazy this year ahahah.</div>
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oh
what that's so cool! I miss Jeffrey and his antics ahaha. i hope to see
him when I get home! you should tell him to write me a letter! it takes
about three weeks to get here, but that's okay ahahah.</div>
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anyways, I miss you guys a lot! I love you all! eat an extra plate for me on Thanksgiving! you know how much i like food haha.</div>
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and a two year old daughter of a recent
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-56397604313968463142013-11-11T05:58:00.000-08:002013-11-11T05:58:04.231-08:00Week 7: Typhoon !Family! Hey!<br />
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We as missionaries are pretty cut off from the rest of
the world and even the rest of the country, so we heard about the
typhoon but we literally had no idea of its extent! I'm glad JT is okay! That's crazy. We were only in the very very very edge of the typhoon, we
just had moderate rain and pretty strong winds. We were told by
President Tye to not proselyte on Friday so we just stayed in our house
all day, it was a pretty boring day. But it all blew over over night.
Good thing too, because on Saturday, we had 3 baptisms! That's right,
another three! We are DOIN WORK HERE IN BACOOR. Since I've been here,
the ward I'm in had already had 9 baptisms of new converts (5 by the
other missionary companionship and 4 by us)! Our ward has a monthly goal
of 2 baptisms and we've already almost doubled this months, and we
tripled last months. I heard rumors of our ward maybe having to split
soon. Our baptisms this Saturday were one 22 year old girl named Mary
Rose, and then two children from a previously less active family (that
we brought back into activity may I mention) a boy named Jonas Hular
who's 11 and girl named Jomerlly Hular who's 8. Elder Zacarias and I have
gotten really close to Mary Rose and the Hular family. It was
absolutely great to taste the fruits of our labor. I have had the
opportunity to baptize 4 of our own investigators and 1 other who I was
asked to by the other companionship. They all bore their testimonies
afterwards and the spirit was so strong and they knew, even the 8 and 11
year olds, that they had made the right choice to be baptized and had
entered through the gateway to eternal life! I really hope to be able
to see the Hular family be sealed in the Manila temple, because they are
able to now! that would be awesome. That's our number one goal here as
missionaries, to complete eternal families! what a blessing it is to be a
missionary and help people accomplish things that will lead them to
live with our Heavenly Father again. Always pray for and be grateful of
the missionaries! our work is hard but our labors do not go unnoticed,
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normal week in the life of a missionary! We've been low on food lately,
but we've graciously had the ability to eat at members houses an awful
lot, which is nice, FEED THE MISSIONARIES. they like food., we all do.
our meals are never guaranteed, such a hard life. just kidding ahahshd.</div>
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I love to hear about Ben and Sam! Ben's doing awesome in
cross-country, he whooped my time! what an animal. I honestly didn't hink
he would be so good. its a hidden talent.</div>
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awesome too! even though his team isn't so hot, he's awesome. He's like
Blake Griffin I think. He's a baller but he can never land a good team. I
mean I don't know much about him right now because I don't know anything
about the real world ahha but from previous knowledge.</div>
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well anyways, I have some pictures this week so I'll send you guys
some! but other than that, I love you guys! I think about you all often
but I dont let it distract me from my work, dont worry. I love you
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-82424152390779213272013-10-28T08:50:00.004-07:002013-10-28T08:50:48.432-07:00Week 5: Tagaytay and BaptismDad! and Family!<br />
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Hey guys! This week has been pretty normal for the
missionary life! Except on Saturday we did have 6 baptisms! Me and my
companion only actually had one, the others were another set of
missionaries. anyways, I baptized two of them! the first man I baptized,
Ashly, when I dunked him, he put his foot up out of the water so
I had to dunk him again ahahaha. Also, a funny thing is that I forgot
to bring a second white shirt to change into after the baptism, so the
rest of the night proselyting I had to wear a soaking wet white shirt
ahahha and it was pretty much see through. but oh well! It felt good
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anyways, we have a few new investigators, and two of them came to
church on Sunday! It was great seeing them there. they actually came to
the baptisms too! It was awesome. but one of them is moving to Manila
next month or soon so we wont be baptizing him, we'll just have to refer
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that's really all that's worth telling this week! don't worry, every
other day was just regular teaching appointments, you aren't missing
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Go Dad! You're like the sonoran gopher snake hunter! Steve Irwin! </div>
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that's awesome! I've only seen one snake here. and it was dead on the
side of the road ahaha. it was about a foot long garter snake. nothing
special. but I did catch a frog! </div>
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I love haring about Ben and Sam's sports! Its awesome that Sam's
playing soccer and basketball right now. and still staying involved in
scouts! that cant be easy. it must be busy around the house, even
without me!</div>
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Ben's doing awesome from what I hear. You should tell Ben and Sam to email be personally! I want to hear from them.</div>
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before
I forget, I thought of something I want for Christmas! If we still have
that little ipod shuffle, it would be awesome if you guys could fill it
with a whole bunch of Disney music! like Up, the Incredibles, Tangled
(a request from Maddie, she wants me to know every word to every song on
the Tangled soundtrack when I come home), etc... that would be awesome!
because apparently Disney music is allowed! yay!</div>
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my
shoes are doing fine! I just shined them for the first time last week
and they look good as new! I haven't even worn the hush puppies yet, but I
will.</div>
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tell
Auntie Jen I think about her and Uncle Ron and Dylan oh an Nana and I
actually had a dream about Auntie Jen ahah! I just have so little time
to email so many people and I rarely get around to emailing her! but I
love them and think about them! and everyone too! Grammy and Pops and
Mia and the twins and uncle Robert and uncle Scott and auntie CJ and
Rachel!!11</div>
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anyways, I love you guys a whole lot! and I miss you too. thanks
for all the support and love I really feel it! I'm gonna send some
pictures now yay!</div>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Anyways, this week was also pretty normal for a missionary in the Philippines! However, next Saturday, I have my first baptism! It’s a guy, yes a guy, named Ashly and I was asked to be his baptizer! That will be awesome. I'm doing all I can to prepare for it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We also have a baptismal date set for this very receptive interested investigator named Kimberly. But there’s a problem with her because she’s due to give birth the day before her baptismal date, so we're gonna have to change it. Also, it is encouraged that she should be married if possible before her baptism, so it may take awhile to get her and her significant other married before she can get baptized. But she is very willing! She’s actually sad that she'll most likely have to wait for so long to be baptized. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With regards to the earthquake, it was about 100 miles away from where I am and we didnt even feel it or anything, so everything's alright here!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now to answer some questions! </div><div class="MsoNormal">My companion is 22 years old, and has been in the field for abour 8 months. Hes Filipino and knows fluent Tagalog, Waray (another Filipino dialect) and English surprisingly well. He’s from an island called Leyte which is about 120 miles from where we are. He’s an extremely good missionary, always looking for teaching opportunities and he’s also very patient and caring with me! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have two other elders in our apartment, elder Velasco and elder Ripdos. Elder Ripdos is our zone leader! They’re awesome too. Both Filipino. Elder Ripdos speaks English fairly well, and Elder Velasco does not know much English haha.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We eat like kings! Just kidding, we eat like poor college students. Lots and lots of rice because its really cheap. We also eat a lot of cheap meats, like undesirable parts of the chicken, hot dogs, and this pork thing called tocino which is actually pretty good. I have oatmeal every breakfast, also because its cheap and I buy it in bulk hahaa. For dinner, we usually try to get fed by members or investigators, but sometimes we have to eat out which is pretty expensive so we try to avoid it. Or else we eat rice and cheap meat haha.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">No we don't live in an apartment complex, its actually a house! So I don’t really know why I always call it an apartment. But whatever. It’s a small house and it’s not that bad at all!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Tagalog is coming slow and painfully and is really quite a struggle for me. But it’s coming and I'm improving so everything’s fine. I'll get there!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Every morning have this workout routine I made for myself! Nobody else likes to exercise, so I'm usually alone ahha. But I do 50 push-ups (nose touching the ground on the way down) 100 crunches, 100 ab-rotate things, and a three minute plank. Sometimes I do some squats and calf raises and stuff. But I try and do that morning and night! I haven’t been able to play any basketball yet but I really want to! I think one of these days this week I'm going to convince everybody to wake up early one morning and go play some basketball because we have a concrete court right down the street from our house! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As for Christmas presents, I though of something I was going to ask for earlier this week but I totally forgot! I have no idea still! But this week I'll think really hard and write what I think of down so I don’t forget it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So far, I've heard from Harrison, Kyle, Maddie (obviously), Auntie Jen, Uncle Scott and Auntie CJ, and I've been meaning to ask for Uncle Terry's email address! He wrote me my last week in the MTC and I haven’t had time to write him back! Could you guys get that for me? Thanks! But no, I actually haven’t heard from Jeremy yet, or anyone else really. But that's okay! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I love hearing from you guys! It makes my day! I'm sorry I don’t have time to respond to everything you write, but I love and miss you guys and I'm happy everything is going well at home! Tell Ben and Sam to remember to listen to you guys and always be positive too! That’s the key to life.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I love you guys a lot and I miss you! </div><div class="MsoNormal">Love, Elder Lasley :)</div>Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-82223620265464257462013-10-15T17:33:00.000-07:002013-10-15T17:33:00.203-07:00Week 3: General Conference<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Family!</div>
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I’m going to reply to yours and Dad’s email in this one so
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This week nothing really very abnormal or write-worthy
happened, we had lessons everyday and studying and just the normal missionary
life. There was a bit of a storm, probably the very edge of a typhoon, on
Thursday Friday and Saturday though!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
rained like torrentially and flooded, in many places there was like a foot of
water on the road and on the streets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was pretty crazy. On Saturday and Sunday we watched General Conference which
was awesome! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It toook pretty much all
day both of those days, but it was totally worth it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have never gotten so much out of a general
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Oh something that did happen was my nice REI umbrella was
taken from the church during conference, so as of right now I only have my
cheap one, but we're on the look out so no worries.</div>
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I will make that phone call to the bank later today
hopefully! Not that I am in need of money, but I may be sometime so it would be
a good idea haha.</div>
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I am becoming pretty accustomed to missionary life, and I'm
settling in fine!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is just
fine here in the Philippines. I have not been to the mission home since the
first day, but I will be going there on the 23rd I think for a new missionary
follow up training!</div>
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I feel Ben, hahah, cross country gets very tiring and I
always wanted it to end before it did also. He should totally do that
highschool NJB with his friends, that would be a blast! I wanted to, but I didn’t
have any friends to play with.</div>
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Sam sounds like the same old Sam! ahahah He makes me laugh.
Personal hygiene? No biggie ahaha. He'll learn, no worries. </div>
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Dad sounds no different either! ahah. That dang boat. And
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I'm not 100% sure if i will actually go to Hong Kong, its
only if my permanent visa doesn’t go through. I think. I have no idea! But I
would be going on November 20th I think.</div>
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I'm sorry I don’t have much to write this week, but it wasn’t
a very exciting week. I'll send a lot of pictures next week, but there aren’t
really any this week! Sorry! I miss you guys a lot though and I love you!</div>
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Elder Lasley</div>
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Oh oh questions!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
favorite scripture is D&C 6:36!</div>
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For Christmas? I have no idea. maybe a rain coat? Or a new
pair of shoes? Whatever you feel! It honestly doesn’t matter to me, I'm easy
going.</div>
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I don’t need anyththing, I'm doing just fine :)</div>
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And yes you can definitely post my mailing address on
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I love you guys, and I miss you.</div>
Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-48990666591778379212013-10-08T19:46:00.001-07:002013-10-08T19:46:14.960-07:00Week 2: In the Philippines<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Dad! I'm going to reply to yours and mom’s email in this one
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I am in a city called Bacoor, it is east of Cavite city. It
is extremely polluted and pretty filthy, but its my home right now! It’s usually
very hot and humid too and these are the cold months. Boy am I in for it. Way
too many people live here than should so it is totally packed and crowded and
crazy! There are many poor families but also many wealthy ones too. Bacoor's
economy is pretty much centered around a mall called SM City which is in the
center of the city. It’s a huge 6 story shopping mall and there’s about 40 of
them in the Philippines. It’s probably what contributes to most of the
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Bacoor City</div>
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I kind of gave you a brief review of my work last week and I
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Last Monday after I emailed you, we went to a family home
evening at a member's house. We had a lesson and played games and ate pancit
(noodles and chicken and vegetables, delicious) and it was a lot of fun. even
though it was mostly in Tagalog. On Tuesday, we had our morning schedule (8-12,
personal study, companionship study, language study and new missionary study)
and then went out! We took a jeepney and a tricycle to a chapel on the other
side of town where we had a district meeting with all the Missionaries in the Bacoor
district. There were 4 companionships including mine, and one other American
who had been here for 7 months and was fluent in Tagalog. We had a little
meeting and then ate lunch at Jollibee which is like the Philippines’ McDonalds
that serves pork hamburgers instead of beef becausue Filipino’s seem to like
pork better. After that, me and Elder Zacarias, my companion, who is from
Leyte, another island in the Philippines and has been out for about 8 months,
had an appointment at a members house where we taught this member’s nanny/maid
named Mary Rose who is a very good progressing investigator. After we taught
her the member, Nanay Lopez (Nanay means mother and is what you call older
women), fed us adobo which is chicken cooked in soy sauce and vinegar with rice
and is very good. After that, we had a couple more lessons before we got home.
Most days are pretty much like this..We get fed usually everyday, a lot of food!
They're trying to fatten me up. I will share one more story because it is my
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We were proselyting in a poorer area of town where all the
houses are made of sheet metal and have mostly dirt floors and are not much
bigger than my room. We found a Nanay doing laundry outside so we talked to
her. Apparently she was a member, but her husband wasn’t, so she let us inside
to go teach her husband. He was a 60+ year old, blind, diabetic. They also had
a severely autistic son. Anyways, we taught him about the gospel of Jesus Christ
and he was very interested and receptive and asked many questions. It was a
great lesson. I shared some thoughts in my broken Tagalog. After the closing
prayer, we asked to return another time and he said that would be fine so we
set up a return appointment and talked to him a bit more. He told us he had
about 10 percent vision and that he could only really see light colors, so he
could tell we were wearing white shirts, and could tell that I was white,
ahaha. He said "Amerikano?" and I said "opo!" and then he
looked at me for a while and said "guapo-guapo" or very handsome,
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their son and he just smiled, he was sweet. anyways, that’s the story!</div>
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Now to answer some questions. I will send you pictures of my
apartment don’t worry. We live with one other companionship, both Filipino, so
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I love the food here. Lots of rice every meal!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They even serve rice at McDonalds and KFC and
every other fast food restaurant. I love the people too! They’re very humble
and hospitable and they love Americans. They love white skin! It’s like the
opposite of here. They use umbrellas everywhere and have skin whitening creams
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The kids are really funny too. Whenever I walk by a group of
children they all yell at me in their broken English and call me names like
"Father" and "Policeman" and "Justin Bieber"
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big, but a lot a lot of stray cats and dogs and even goats. and chickens and
ducks too! A lot of families raise roosters for cock fighting. I guess its
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markets and street venders everywhere also. They don’t really have any copyright
laws either so everything is usually fake. Anyways, I'll send some
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soccer and basketball. I'm glad he’s enjoying it. He'll always be a monster
outside shooter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Ben’s doing great
in cross-country, that’s awesomse! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He'll
no doubt be better than me. It makes me happy that I can be a role model for
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know the Corums actually! The daughter was a cheerleader at Flag High if I’m
not mistaken. Keep working with the missionaries! Working with a member present
is so much more effective than not. We don’t get General Conference here in the
Philippines until next weekend, but I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for
telling me what to look out for! I think it’ll be in Enlgish with Tagalog
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I love you guys and miss you all a whole lot!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep being the Lasley's, don’t change too
much, I don’t want to miss anything! I get homesick sometimes, but I'm doing
alright. I miss Maddie too! But we email also and we’re gonna start writing
letters! When she comes over for dinner could you give her the address to write
me letters? I think it’s in my call packet. If not, do you think you could
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Lazlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13702259166698571657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-916813680122061069.post-32257123515199217272013-09-30T21:40:00.001-07:002013-09-30T21:40:54.204-07:00Finally in the Philippines!<div>I'm here! I'm in the Philippines! </div><div>Alright, first, I'm going to tell you about my whole experience here so far. I don't have that much time on the computer but know that I did read your whole mail even if I dont mention it all!</div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1oo_WhIlC1qZ6G2ANPEH7-P1vgtKbCFUlaZyWCs-_bHmNyrY0xjhSVqkt6MNI7-IHn2mo72QuJ5-TIOi49wm2DR96KrX2Cc2FVxYJN0OaY1mTQ6ANZ-MkuHT0V1Bx3WsLuCeFXyBkq65k/s1600/Adam+and+His+Companion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1oo_WhIlC1qZ6G2ANPEH7-P1vgtKbCFUlaZyWCs-_bHmNyrY0xjhSVqkt6MNI7-IHn2mo72QuJ5-TIOi49wm2DR96KrX2Cc2FVxYJN0OaY1mTQ6ANZ-MkuHT0V1Bx3WsLuCeFXyBkq65k/s320/Adam+and+His+Companion.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Adam and his new companion in the Philippines</div><div> </div><div>okay here it goes.</div><div>I got here in my area on Wednesday afternoon after we had a new missionary orientation at the mission home! Im in an city called Bacoor, it's very dirty and crowded and gross and there are a large amount of poor poor people, but there are also a good amount of wealthy people. The first day, Wednesday, we rode a jeepney (crazy things) to our apartment (which I will send you pictures of, don't worry) which is in a more wealthy part of town. My companion Elder Zacarias asked me if I wanted to rest or get to work and guess what I said? rest! just kidding I actually said lets get to work! So he said we had two appointments with an investigating family and a less active family. They both lved in the same part of town, an extremely poor area. Their houses are about the size of the upstairs bathroom, with ust usually dirt floors. We taught the first family about the restoration and I bore my testimony the best I could in tagalog and then at the end, we gave their baby girl a priesthood blessing because she was sick. I annointed with oil and my companion sealed and blessed her (in tagalog). The second family was much like the first, but they had 3 grown chilren (18, 20 and 21) and spoke little to no english, so I kind of just sat there and bore my testimony the best I could. It was a very humbling exeperience.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxw1cDUjh9ULXMdTYd6YcHv76oddRy8BakuDlM39CSTfnNWVyn9Z6vvpu5l3D-q7PhO8Nc_bwRzZog7GpAKl8o2iXYFFppCwHQsnLRRzWqUNB3pOVJiigehRHg_QALSLROpAr6Hyf3iwH/s1600/A+girl+named+Princess.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxw1cDUjh9ULXMdTYd6YcHv76oddRy8BakuDlM39CSTfnNWVyn9Z6vvpu5l3D-q7PhO8Nc_bwRzZog7GpAKl8o2iXYFFppCwHQsnLRRzWqUNB3pOVJiigehRHg_QALSLROpAr6Hyf3iwH/s320/A+girl+named+Princess.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"> A girl named Princess</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div> </div><div>I dont have time to give you every detail of everyday so I'll give you the main stuff!</div><div>The next day we visited 4 familys, 1 of which served us lunch and the other served us dinner. Adobo! It's a chicken and vegetable dish, very masarap (delicous). The others, we tauight about the restoration. And that's pretty much what we did everyday until Sunday actually! A lot of lessons, a lot of testimonies born because that's about all I know how to do off the top of my head, and a lot of jeepney rides. </div><div>on Sunday, we went to church and I was called up as a new missioanry to bear my testimony! I was very nervous and I said most of it in English and I also started crying in the middle of it which nobody understood, but I did just fine I think.</div><div>After church we had more proselytizing and also had no food at the house so I went hungry yaaaayyy. I will send you pictures don't worry because there's a lot of details I am leaving out because I don't have that much time on here! I'll write letters too, but they'll probably be pretty outdated by the time you get them. But that's okay.</div><div> </div><div>Anyways, today is P-day and I am in an internet cafe using a computeer to email right now. I'm emailing Maddie too! I'm really happy you want to have Maddie over for dinner, I was goiung to mention to you that I want Maddie to feel close to you guys because I know this is hard for her, so if she's close to my family it may feel easier for her. Yes have her over for dinner! And talk to her, she loves it! Have her over for dinner often!</div><div> </div><div>I miss you guys a whole lot! It sounds like the same old same old in Flagstaff, which I miss. I've been pretty homesick these past few days, sometimes, quite often actually, I think "I wonder what everyone's doing at home right now" and I just get homesick. But it's okay, I'll get over it! I really miss Maddie too. But I don't let it distract me from my work! I just pray for her and you guys a lot.</div><div> </div><div>I love you guys and here are some pictures! I'm sorry this is a bad email, but I really don't get enough time on here. I love you guys!</div>Love Elder Lasley<br />
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