Week 49

Hey everyone,

Its flooding and my feet are currently soaking wet because I've been walking back and forth in Dagupan City running errands for people. Its a party. 

Elder Notarte and I are having fun working and learning together. We're just trying to help people have the spiritual experiences they need in order to come unto Christ - because thats why we're here. We're teaching by the Spirit of God and loving life even in the storms (literally and of trials). 

We had the really cool experience of getting to teach this 73 year old Filipina who was here staying at her vacation home. Her real home is in... West Covina California! We talked about California and her life there and she has had a lot of really cool experiences. She's actually the lady we met with President Espinosa, who we got the chance to go teach again. She prayed and believes that Joseph Smith is a true prophet of God and she's reading the Book of Mormon. The Gospel of Jesus Christ really is for everyone, and if you haven't yet, I invite you to meet with the Missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - even just once - to hear what we have to say. If you're interested let me know.

I love the work and the life out here and the people! Its all going great!

-Elder Collier

The first picture is me standing in the flood when the entire highway was under 6 inches of water.

The second picture is our zone

The third picture is us with some random girls who needed to interview a foreigner for school

The fourth picture is Elder Seve who was my zone leader until he went home today

Week 48

Hey ya'll,

This week was a fun one and some pretty cool things happened. First, last night I got fed red velvet cheesecake so that was pretty good. Also, puttanesca which was super good and I'd only ever heard of in "A Series of Unfortunate Events."

Second, President Espinosa (my mission president) came and worked with me and my companion on Wednesday. He said he'd be working with different companionships that week and apparently we were one of them. He just called us and said he'd be there in an hour. We went to an area I'd never been to before (because that's what we'd planned before we knew he was coming) so I was a little nervous at first. We went tracting and found this super cool lady who lives in LA a lot of the time, but is here for a few months. We taught a powerful message on the Plan of Salvation together. It was a cool experience.

I also had the opportunity to work with Elder Martinez this last week. He's new as well and I got to take him to my area and try to teach him some stuff. We had a fun time and taught a message about how you (in the royal sense) are never alone and Christ is always there to support you. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how sad or alone you might feel, Christ has felt that and is there to support you. I shared some personal experiences with her and she decided she wants to get to know Him better. It was awesome.

We also got zone shirts and played billiards.

thats all folks

-Elder Collier

Picture 1 is the zone 

Picture 2 is the district

Picture 3 is Billiards