Week 55 - Cade's Baptism and beatin' on Hadley's BF's

Ramon

Hey yoooo what up. SO we did get a new investigator yesterday. She's the cousin of one of the RMs in our ward. We taught her the first lesson at church and extended baptism, so she accepted and we'll be doing that on the 19th of September. So that's awesome that I get another baptism for my birthday:) Everything else is completely fine. All of our RCs are doing just fine, no problems there.

Seriously I'm pretty upset at all the things I'm missing. I miss Cade's baptism and beating up all of Hadley's BFs. When I get home I'm gonna probably end up in jail though XD Throwing punches at lil kids for messing with my sister XP. haha Anyways Take care this week! Love ya'll

Family at Cade's Baptism

Family, Gma and Gpa, and the other Swensen's.

Hadley and Cade

Week 54 - We finally got to ear from him.

Ramon

I hope you don't get an ear from me this week. I need both of them XD haha

(We didn't hear from him last week)
Sorry last week we had a district activity and before we realized it, it was already six, so we had to work. E. Manalili and I have one more cycle. I'm guessing I didn't train because there are 13 foreigners and three Filipinos. Next cycle though I'll probably train.

We had our baptism. I'll upload pix in a min. Everything went well, but this ward really sucks at attending and getting set up for baptisms. They are always one or two hours late to baptisms, but it's all goods. The important thing is she got baptized. We have a couple more potential investigators that will probably get baptized, maybe next next week. One of them, her name is Danika, lives super far away and is only in town every Saturday and Sunday. She goes to church every week though, and apparently she's been doing that for awhile. 

Earlier this morning we played ball with our zone. It was pretty fun. Our DL and our ZL is getting transferred though.



District Activity - Sister Acain, Elder Swensen, Sister Saragoza, and Elder Manalili

District Activity - Elders Cebreros, Manalili, Costacio, and Glassie

Elder Manalili, Elder Canencia, Jefferson, Elder Swensen and Elder Glassie

Another baptism with Elder Glassie, Elder Canencia, Elder Swensen and Elder Manalili

Week 52 - Becoming a trainer.

Ramon

I thought I uploaded the pictures :P I guess I didn't.  They aren't on my MC either. I don't know what happened... I'll get copies from Faa. I talked to President about it during our interview last week. He said it was all good, but I need to make sure I want it, and I need to get my Visa fixed ASAP. So it is possible. We normally get our trunky letters 3 or 4 months before the release date. I also get to pick June or May. He said if I want to get released early than it was fine with him. He also said I'll be becoming a trainer. Either this cycle or next :P

Also, I got some stuff stolen from me. I got my P-day shoes, nikes, and my new Proselyting shoes.... I'm using my old ones right now, but they won't hold up for forever. Maybe 1 more cycle. E. Zabala and E. Paea are my zone leaders. E. Glassie is my new DL.

This week is our baptism. We also have another interview for a baptism this week. and we set another  baptismal date for 3 weeks from now, which will probably be next cycle. So things are going really good here. I really hope I don't transfer, but it's possible because I think my comp is going to train too. I really want to have my birthday here. I already have plans for my birthday so I hope I don't get transferred. I think that's about it. Any ways that's about it. Love ya'll take care.

Week 51 - Upcoming baptisms!

Ramon

Alright I'll take pictures of all the places we go this week :p

Yeah we did get a new investigator. She is the Niece of one member here. She came to church last week and we set her baptism for the 23rd. Jefferson is still progressing. His interview is this week on Saturday. We had our baptism scheduled for the 15th, but the members decided last week to have an activity on that day so they moved our baptism to the 14th. Also E. Manalili said not really anyone attends the baptisms so we'll have to work on that. hahahha

 

We have our interviews this week with Prez. So I guess we see how that goes, but anyways I'm sure it'll be great^-^ hahaha Anyways that's all.... Take care! Love you.

Week 50 - True Man!

Ramon

We got a baptismal date this week. His name is Jefferson. He's 13 years old. He's awesome. Besides that we have a new investigator named Sister Lyn. She's in her 30's. Apparently the missionaries taught her before in a different area 3 years ago and then they moved here and didn't get to meet the missionaries. So we met her and we'll probably give her a baptismal date this week.

We had an elders conference this last week. It was awesome. The whole day was about being a true man. It was way fun. We also got flu vaccines. Apparently that was the test to see who was a real man. I didn't pass -.- hahahhaha jokes jokes! but it was a good fun week! This week should be fun too. Tomorrow is the birthday of a nanay here and of course we have a lunch appointment there. There's also a sister here that bakes cakes for the missionaries when it is there birthday so hopefully I'm still here for my birthday :p  Anyways that's about it. Hope y'all have a good week.

Cauayan Mission Elders Conference



Elder Rotamula, Elder Swensen, Elder Manalili, Elder Costacio, and Elder Llanda

Week 49 - Ramon in Santiago North Zone

Ramon

Sorry I forgot my card reader again so no new pics. It's hard to remember things because we're always doing stuff in the morning. We are just coming from basketball. So I am in Santiago North Zone, in Ramon. It's weird because this was Faa's last area. He said he loved it and I can tell why. Dinner appointments every night with a nanay named nanay linda. The ward here is pretty great too. So the only progressing investigators we have right now is Jefferson. He's 13 and a cool little kid. We taught him for the first time on Saturday and he went to church yesterday so he has potential.

So on transfer day we met in Tug city's stake center and then those who were getting transferred take the van to Cauayan where they catch a different ride to wherever they get assigned.  My companions name by the way is Elder Manalili. He's from Manila. He a cool kid. He's the first Filipino companion that's taller than me. I'll send pix next week. Nothing else has really changed. The house here is awesome I love it. It's surrounded by coconuts and the native orange thingy's here called suha. Other things that I forgot to tell you over the past year, I love blood. It's way good. I love balut too. I'm getting pretty good at cooking. and yeah I still love the Philippines, even though it's hot. I've talked to president about getting released here and he's game for it. I still plan to study here. So I don't know how that will go down.

New Companion, Elder Manalili, next to former companion, Elder Pawin

New area - Ramon

Week 48 - Awesome blessings before I go to my next favorite area.

Last week in Alcala

Sorry we couldn't send emails last week, there was a typhoon here and the power was out all day. Everything is good here. Because of the storm, we couldn't confirm 2 of our baptisms that happened 2 weeks ago, but yesterday we got them confirmed and then 2 of the baptisms received the priesthood. It's cool because I was the one who started teaching all these people and I get to see them get baptized, receive the priesthood and all that stuff.

I'm all getting transferred in 2 days, so that's a bummer. I like this area a lot better than my first so it really is a shame to leave. I hope I go down south somewhere like Bambang or Solono. It really sucks because I had to deal with the hottest part of the summer in the hottest area of the Philippines. Haha, but at least I'm still alive. We just had our zone activity earlier. It was way fun. This is by far my favorite zone too. Half the zone is getting transferred though. Every companionship has a transfer. Well that's about it for this week.

Take care I love you

Tuguegarao North Zone
Sister Villa, Sister Canlapan, Sister DeGuzman, Sister Seumanu
Elders Llacona, Arorong, Swensen, Faasavalu, Gabelo,
Einfeldt, Corcuera, Abadines, Reyes, Saguire

Zone Conference Jeopardy Activity

And lunch by Brother Pete

Alcala Friends - Park Shin Hye, Lynne Bueno, Elder Swensen,
Anjo Gonzales Tejano, and Irish Mae Tejano