Oh Holy Week of Birthdays!

Dear Mom, I will try to make this email as short and as concise as possible. I have so much to tell you!ell this week has been a week of birthdays! It seemed like every other house we went into, someone was celebrating a birthday! On Monday was Ice Marco's birthday. Sister Marco invited us over that day and we were pretty hesitant to go since it was p-day, but we went anyway and sacrificed grocery shopping to make it. It was me, Elder Iglupas, and a bunch of little kids and their parents. The Marco family was inactive for about two years when I came back into the area and we worked really hard in helping them back to church. They've become really special to us and Sister does her best to feed us every week and does her best to help...

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Finally Summer

Dear Mom,My gulay, what a week. I have never worked this hard in my life. I've slept like a rock and worked myself to death more than ever. It's been AWESOME. The best part, is that summer has finally started! Fortunately it's only supposed to last for a month. I have no idea how you and dad survived here during summer. I can't remember the last time I was not sweating. I was sweating going to sleep, waking up, showering, eating, sitting in church (the air/con in church conveniently broke yesterday)... yeah. Even though there are electric fans on you, it just blows hot air. You sweat so much it's like your crying. Gotta love it. Since I still owe you my email from last week, just a quick recap! We watched conference which was awesome. Pretty...

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You Want Me to Do What?

Dear Mom,Well it's transfer week so... this email is going to be really short because my companion needs to pack. I will not be packing.So yeah! I'm here for another transfer and I'm really, really happy. I will miss Elder Daly a lot though. He has been an awesome, awesome companion. He is really nice and probably will be one of my very best friends at home. I hope that he will be well in his next area.Well just a funny experience this week real quick. So I was on exchanges with a good friend and Elder, Elder Peterson, and we went to talk to a family who just had a baby. Before we left, they asked Elder Peterson to lick his finger and touch the baby's stomach. When I first heard this, I was super confused. Of course, it was not in English, so I repeated it to him in English..."Elder... did...

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Miracles and a forty-day fast.

Dear Mom, It's crazy to think we're in the last week of our transfer. I feel like somehow, someway each transfer gets shorter. My first transfer definitely felt like an eternity and it doesn't hardly feel like I'll be coming up on a year soon. We'll see where I end up next transfer. I really don't want to leave Caloocan, I've really, really grown to love this place. The work here is great and I have no complaints. There's actually a lot I have to talk about this week! So brace yourself, this might be a long email but I'll try not to make it too long. The other day in a lesson, one of the kids brought a snake in the room and was just playing with it like a normal pet. Gotta love the Philippines - a surprise everyday! No, no one urinated...

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