The Jubilee was Awesome

A service project Elder Jenkins & I

Hey everyone! This week has been really good, and flew by! So the biggest news is that I found out I will be transferring this Friday so next week’s letter will be from a different area and a new companion. I won’t lie, I will miss Sibalom. There are a lot of awesome people here and the work was going good as well. This Saturday we watched the “Jubilee" which was a huge, huge celebration of the church officially being in the Philippine Islands for 50 years. I can’t believe it here. In 1961 there was one member and now there is over 630,000 and growing so fast. The Jubilee was awesome. They did a ton of cultural dances and also the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang with the Philippine National Choir. You should look it up to see if you can watch the videos. Then Sunday we had an area conference to which the area 70 came and also Boyd K. Packer and Quentin l. Cook from theTwelve. It was cool to hear them address things specifically to the Philippines and the missionary work here. There was also really good speakers. I am pretty excited for a new comp haha. We were doing ok but have been together 18 weeks so "buhay ron" or a long, long time haha. It will be weird to get a new comp cuz it will only be my second here in the field so it will be different teaching and I will also have to learn a different language. Either Hiligaynon or Aklanon depending on where I transfer. (There are more than 100 languages and 400 dialects in the Philippines.) Hiligaynon is fairly similar to Kinaray'a but just different vocab. It will be wierd. I am really getting to where this language is easy and I can communicate well. I have had a weird cough and sore throat the last few days so hopefully it goes away because it is hard to speak the language here with it like that. That is fun that you got to go to Havasu haha. I am jealous sometimes of things like that. I am glad everything is going well with you all and you are all staying happy and healthy. The weather here is bad haha it is so hot here. I also had a lady wash all my shirts last week and they are so, so much whiter than usual haha. I’ll do it again this week. That is crazy about all the natural disasters going on in the world. Regarding next week, I will try my best to call you early Monday morning here...so Sunday evening there. I will try earlier than I normally e-mail but I can’t guarantee anything since I have no clue where I will be. Also, we cannot do video. Voice only on the Skype. Either way I will get ahold of you and it will be sweet to hear from you all :) I love you all! Bye, Bye. Hey Papa! This week has gone really well. I will be transferring to a different area this week so that will be cool, I guess. I have been meaning to tell you about some funny things here. I told you they use bamboo for everything but this week we were in a different area and the power lines were all tall bamboo haha. I was laughing. Also, when they build a house, they use bamboo for scaffolding haha. It is funny how much they use bamboo in their life. I think it is crazy that baseball is almost over already. Anyway I love you tons, dad, and can’t wait to talk! Hahahahaha Britt that is rude...you miss me not really, but just a little haha I miss you! jk that is so awesome that you ran track in Vegas I am so proud of you Barbs. You are getting so big. I love you so much!