6b19df19-c537-4026-a53e-6fd443d21183 Elder Chase Abbott Back to Missionary Letters Wrong my whole life :( I thought my whole life that I was right handed in everything, throwing a baseball, writing, whatever. But apparently I'm left handed when eating like a Filipino. It's supposed to be spoon in the right, fork in the left. But I have fork in the right, spoon in the left. And yes this is real, I had our Bishop ask if I was left handed because of that For those that didn't leave after the world's most boring fun fact, I'm still alive here in the Philippines! And also you get another (fun? boring?) fact. I knew rice was part of every meal here, but the dogs also eat rice most of the time too. I mean it makes sense but I don't know why that didn't click earlier. Espiritual na Isip: I don't know what to say other than just read the Book of Mormon. I'm realizing how great that book is and how much we can learn from it. The best part is that it isn't even a boring book. Like the stories are really awesome as well as super spiritually deep, couldn't ask for a better book really. We have people who are interested, and hopefully they'll be able to come closer to Christ, and find the joy that comes through him! Had a friend that we've met with a few times and he came to church for the first time last night so that was really cool. Another friend is really interested, loves the scriptures, and should be able to be baptized here in a couple weeks so we're praying for him! Other than that not much stands out from walking, talking, teaching, and all that missionary stuff. Also last pday after the email we went on a hike and District lunch that kept us out of the apartment until we had an hour and a half left in pday. It was awesome for sure but long. Rough. Mahal ko kayong lahat! At mahal kayo ni Cristo! Kanyang pagmamahal ay walang hanggan! https://photos.app.goo.gl/H4ZCmsvhw3SU7kGQ7 Previous Letter Next Letter

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ad737442-67e0-4e69-a4f3-c6e2eb88f81c Elder Reece Leavitt Back to Missionary Letters Consistency is key!! We had a lot of fun activities in the church. We are playing uno and in the back they are playing just dance. It was a lot fun.hats up yall, we had another good week down here in brazil. We also had more fun playing volleyball and learning English. The trick is to get candy so then more people want to participate. There are a lot of kids that love to play volleyball so it was a lot of fun. Also ran an exchange with Elder Jacobson. He is super lit. It is a good day when you can get açai. But we also slept 6 people in our tiny house on pday. And that was something. I also put down 35 pieces of pizza at the Rodízio. It was very good. All kinds too, dont ask where it went but it went down. Met a member when I was on the exchange that served with Elder Bunker. So that was a cool connection. Its getting so hot here and It sucks working low-key. Cause the sun is starting to take a toll on me. Already have a little bit of a tan in two days of hot sun. And me and my comp are a little sick so thag sucks too. And then yesterday we went out to a members farm. Saw his geese and pigs and all the land that he has. It was pretty cool. We had a blessed week this week. "Its not about the intensity" "it's about the consistency this is how we need to live our lives. Learning a little more each time we study or read the scriptures. It doesn't matter if we read The Book of Mormon in one day if we didn't learn from it. But with better consistency in our lives, we can accomplish this frase "consistency looks like nothing happens, until everything changes" Love you guys, hope you have an amazing week. Reach out, love hearing from you. ELDER LEAVITT Previous Letter Next Letter

71b763dd-15bb-41eb-aaf2-8637c4c7c422 Elder Kye Griffithes Back to Missionary Letters WEEK 3 ON THE MISH! Kamusta Po! It's been a confusing but enjoyable week! Monday we went down to the port and ate at this little restaurant we like to go to and while we were waiting for our food to be made it started pouring out of nowhere. It's pretty normal here during this season though. All the roofing here is metal sheets and no insulation so when it rains its loud. Then after eating it had stopped so we went back to our apartments and I went on a run while my companion biked beside. Then when we got back I sat in front of a fan and rehydrated to stop sweating and cool down. Then later went to the beach just down the block from our apartments. Definitely a spot I want to come back to after the mission. Tuesday we had findings in the morning and teachings later in the afternoon. My companions bike broke so we couldn't bike this week which wasn't the greatest but we managed well. We just walked around Tinintinan for findings and then later took a trike to our IP appointments down at the port. Wednesday wasn't much besides findings and teachings. I know now how to introduce the Book of Mormon in Tagalog which is good. Elder Franco, my companion has me do it a lot when we find new people. Thursday we did findings in the morning then we had a service project. We took a trike out to this random spot and hiked for a bit up to the rice fields and cropped rice for a few hours. Then went back to our apartments, ate a snack and had a few IP teachings that night. Friday I wrote a talk about families are forever and come to find out I couldn't even give it on Sunday, more on that. I'll give the talk next Sunday instead probably. Pero yeah that day we had findings, inviting to church, and a few teachings. Saturday we invited people to come to church. We had lunch with the senior missionaries who were visiting and then went back out and did some more inviting. Then we got back late and got a call from the mission president and found out we won't be at church the next day. Everyone from my batch has to go back to the Manila MTC for ARP fingerprinting. Also my companion, who is one of the zone leaders has to go to a meeting in Roxas and the sisters in my district are get transferred out of Araceli and transferred to Roxas and the senior missionaries needed to go back to their missionary apartment in Taytay. So that left Elder Jenkins and Elder Fong to run church by themselves. Hopefully that went well for them. So Sunday morning we packed our bags and got in a shuttle to take us from Tinintinan to Dumaran, across Araceli. Then we checked out the future missionary apartments for the people that will open the Dumaran area. Then took a boat ride from Araceli to Stanta Teresita were we then dropped off our bags at the lodging we stayed the night at. Went to the district apartments there and had a special sacrament. Then had a dinner at one of the IPs there and played some games. The language has honestly been a struggle but I'm slowly getting phrases memorized and able to talk more in Tagalog in teachings. Know that there is always an end through your struggles and often a struggle. So offer out your hand unto Him, for He will guide you through them. Feel free to email me! I love hearing from yall! Even if I don't reply, just know I read them and appreciate them! I hope you all are doing well! Update you next Monday👋 Join it!👇 My Mission Photos Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/grDCqFnmLAGcSj9C6 Previous Letter Next Letter

bbde6bd9-6991-446e-b93b-12c169dfda22 Sister Brooke Mickelson Back to Missionary Letters He is preparing people💌 Photos!!!!📸 https://photos.app.goo.gl/UoWFGHnRxwjSNdbB9 Storytime!! We had a super awesome miracle a couple weeks ago. Sister Hansen and I prayed about where we should go knock the next day, and we felt prompted to go knock a certain street. We got to the street and it didn't look super welcoming, it is in an area with lots of trailers and trailer houses. A very poor part of town. Nobody seemed to be home as we went door to door, but then we saw a lady outside her trailer. We went up and talked to her, and she immediately started crying. She told us that she had been praying for us all day. Maybe not specifically for us, but for someone, or help, or just an opportunity. She was trying to clean her father's trailer who was about to come home from the hospital and she was super overwhelmed. It was a ton of work. We ended up sharing a scripture with her, and sobbed as we read it. She knew that God sent us to her. She then asked where she could get one of those books, and said that she had been thinking that she wanted to start going to church, but she didnt know where to go. Of course we gave her the information, as we do lol, and she was super excited to come! We were able to introduce her to a member of the ward so that she could get a ride to church. It was perfect because sister Hansen and I were giving talks that Sunday. Her name is Alli, and she is so cool!! God has been preparing her for us, and he led us to her at the very perfect time. He answered our prayers of where we needed to be, and he answered her prayers for someone to come help her. We've met with her a few more times since then, and she is loving everything we talk about! We work so hard all day long, and sometimes go weeks without seeing hardly any success, but we go out and do it happily because we know there are people like Alli who need us, and who need the gospel. We also had transfers this week, and sadly the most inspired companionship in the mission is no longer😢 Sister Hansen left me, but I am now back with Sister Bastian!! I trained her as a greenie, and now I get to train her as an STL! I am really excited for this transfer, she is a super hard worker, and there is so much good in store for this area. Oh also they took one of our areas from us, so we are no longer double covering which is actually so sad. Most of the people we were teaching are now in the elder's hands(wish our friends luck😝) It'll be good though, more time to find and work with people in this area. Anyways idek if anyone still reads these, but if you do I appreciate ya, and would love to hear from all of you😊 Spiritual thought: The last little while I have been thinking a lot about pride. There are things I have struggled with on my mission whether it's a comanion, not feeling motivated, or just feeling down in general. My perspective has changed immensely, about the mission, but also about life and others. Most of the time the issue is our pride and we need to realize that we are no better than the person next to us, and we are not cool enough to interfere God's plan. We have no idea what others are going through, and we are not perfect either. You can judge someone when you're perfect, but I hate to break it to you, that's not gonna happen in this life, so just learn to change your perspective and view of others. Once you learn how to see people how Christ does, you will find so much more joy in your own life. There are so many different perspectives you can look from, but I encourage you to choose the eternal one, and if that's too overwhelming look at each problem with Christ's character in mind. I have seen such a difference in myself when I started to recognize that the way I handled situations, and the way I looked at others was not how Heavenly Father wanted me to. I still have a long way to go, but it starts with a desire. That's all for my weekly rant, love y'all😚 ♡Sister Mickelson Previous Letter Next Letter

003a4007-bc72-4301-b815-9a60f45def6f Elder Ammon Shaner Back to Missionary Letters I'm The Exchange King and I'm also Hiccup.. This past week has been overall pretty good we had interviews with the mission president and he even came to our ward meanwhile we had 4 of our friends pull up to sacrament meeting so it made us look real good in front of him lol. Pretty fun but crazy week and I'll be hitting one month in the feild this next week 🥳 More Exchanges... So i have been on more exchanges than known to man and im not complaining. If you don't know what exchanges are its where you basically swapped companions for the day with another companionship. At the beginning of the week Elder Cubano wanted to do exchanges with the chimney rock elders again but this time he wanted to put us two greenies together so I got my driving permission early to make it happen. But me and Elder Platt while on exchanges did a service project where we sledgehammered walls which was the funniest thing ever. Then Monday I believe we went on exchanges with the ZLs so I had to make sure i was locked in to impress them. I went into the Cheyenne area for the day with Elder Johnson and I love him he's such a goat but I actually ended up putting someone on date by myself while with him so afterwards he said "yeah your training next transfer" then he said the only person he knew who trained second transfer is AP. Anyways on our drive back in the dark to Scottsbluff we talked about conspiracies and Skinwalkers so that was fun. My Growing Addiction I can't lie im getting addicted.... to buying awesome things like Pokémon cards 😞 or like sick posters i see. It's honestly so fun trying to pull a really cool card from the pack and it didnt help that the first pack i did I got a really good card and also the fact that everyone else here does it. But its fun I got some sick cards a sick Spiderman poster and now a Lil Spiderman figure that was a mystery figure and right before I opened it I was like I want that winter Spiderman and I got it! My Look-a-likes I guess??? So we usually have a question of the day from some of the sisters which is super funny because its always something but they also think that like everyone looks like me. It started out with a Pic they sent of a guy on a motorcycle and said it looked like me dont know why but holy man I want a motorcycle so ya that looks like me. Then we talked about movies I said something about how to train your dragon and they said I look like hiccup I WILL TAKE THAT HE SO COOL! Then it went to them saying I look like Remy the rat from ratoiulle which just isn't true. Cool things Aight this emails pretty long already so I'll wrap it up but some cool things that have happened that I haven't already mentioned was we got to go to 2 b-day parties in the same day. The first one we were walking by and they said hey you hungry ofc so we went and partyied it up. Then we pull up to one of our friends house and they are setting up for their mom's bday party so they say to come back later and we did and got fed again later and partyied it up lol. Also we had a lady crash out over text like bad because we said we could meet up inside somewhere unless there's another adult man which was kind of funny. But we actually got locked out of our apartment because we took our car into the shop overnight and our keys were in there so we went over to the shop and there was a cleaning that who wasn't too sure about helping us and seemed kind of mad but we got them lets gooooo. Anyways that's most of the important stuff that has happened and sorry for the long emails yall dont have to read them all but I do enjoy getting replys back. Love yall and have a good week. Also we going to the zoo today i think lets go. Google Photos https://photos.app.goo.gl/WuZLR4fbshPCtFGYA Previous Letter Next Letter

b2a87480-2184-4201-b7bf-0b7dc379f067 Elder McKay Mulitalo Back to Missionary Letters chroo broo Ran allim famini! another week down, honestly nothing really happened this week. we went out and didn't see too much going on. not too many brown people were out and about recently. I forgot we met an inactive member named zay and she wants her son jessie to be baptized. we met her after I had a prompting to stop by and she was crying and asked for a blessing, then I played with jessie, now were kinda best friends. glory to god 🤞church was insanely chaotic on sunday... but were past that. we went on a hike for pday, pretty chill. got some calm fliccys. had dairy queen after, not chill. 😭 The chuuk is getting better ever so slowly, still praying and pushing. Alma 48: 17-18 Man those verses, so powerful. I invite you to study the attributes of Captain Moroni and the other examples in the Book of Alma. They're all so tuff and their faith runs so deep. One thing is common among them all. They Center their life and mission dedicated to Jesus Christ. 🩻 love you all 🫶 https://photos.app.goo.gl/DSwq1RW2YLAc9KTa9 Previous Letter Next Letter

90cef919-6c50-47f4-9b94-c99ee6a01a6f Elder James Park Back to Missionary Letters The prayer of Enos Wow, time has flown by and I can't believe that time keeps passing by faster and faster! This week my companion and I were able to find a couple of new friends who are super cool. Their names are Kevin and his girlfriend Micaela. They are both in their twenties, Micaela is a geologist and Kevin is a barber studying to become a computer technician. They both came to church for the first time this Sunday and I am excited to continue helping them progress towards making covenants with our Father in Heaven. Today I wanted to share a little about the prayer of Enos. I am sure that many of you are familiar with the story, but I wanted to give you all a quick refresher of a few key points. To begin, Enos was out hunting in the forest. We can imagine that when he left his home to hunt he was alone. And he started thinking about the words that his father Jacob had taught him about Jesus Christ. We learn that Enos knelt down and prayed. And he didn’t just say a quick prayer. He prayed all day, and when night came, he was still praying. He mentioned that “my soul hungered.” He prayed first for himself, that his sins could be forgiven. And God answered him and said, “Enos, thy sins are forgiven thee.” But he didn’t stop there. After he was forgiven, he started praying for his family, the Nephites. And then he prayed for his enemies, the Lamanites, that the Lord would still love them and preserve their records. This is more or less the account that we are able to learn about from the words written in the book of Enos but what exactly can we learn from this man's experience?I think that sometimes we think prayer is supposed to be quick and perfect. Enos teaches us that real prayer is honest and personal as he wrestled with God. I also wanted to highlight the order of Enos's prayer. First we pray for us, then our heart grows and we start praying for others. Then even for those who are hard to love. This was a good reminder for me to put the first things first but at the same time not forgetting about the important other things that follow. The last point that I wanted to touch on was the change in Enos after this prayer. I believe that Enos left that forest and that prayer a different man than when he first entered. This change must have come from the faith and real intent of Enos during his time wrestling with God. In the end, prayer is how we communicate with our Heavenly Father and it is also the manner in which we get to know Christ. Apart from this short spiritual thought I wanted to let you all know that I am loving every second of my mission! I will be receiving transfer news next week and I will let you know if I end up staying or going. Thank you for all of your many prayers! Have a good week!! Élder Park 😄✌🏼🇨🇱 Previous Letter Next Letter

08144aaa-de24-461d-a963-bee60eeee26d Elder Kye Griffiths Back to Missionary Letters Week 4 at Provo MTC! Its my last week here in Provo! I had to say goodbye last Tuesday morning to my roommates Elder Fox and Elder Michele. They were so fun to talk with. Elder Michele always had something spiritual to share during branch prayer. They are serving in the Arizona Phoenix Mission. They were here for only two weeks because they are doing a Spanish speaking mission so we saw them come and go; Which made me want to get out of Provo already. Last Tuesday my district went to the Timponogos Temple for the third time. This time we did sealings, it was my first time doing sealings. It was pretty cool to see kind of how it will look like when I get to be sealed in the temple. On Wednesday we got new roommates again. Elder Brown and Elder Maher. They were pretty chill. Elder Maher is from Cedar and apparently knows my cousin Maliza. Elder Brown got sick right when he got here and probably still is, thats kind of how it was for me too. The food this week was honestly buns. It was the same meals and my appetite was over it. Hopefully the food at the Manila MTC is better. I'm sure there will be things I like more about the Manila MTC but also somethings I liked more at the Provo MTC. Thursday and Friday wasn't nothing special, just classes and studying. Saturday was my district's last time having a class with Brother Apple and Sister Williams. They are great Tagalog teachers and have definitely helped me a lot improving my language skills. Sunday was fs a rest day, I was really tired. Surprisingly I didn't fall asleep during our “Go and Do” experience but fell asleep during the later devotional. Also did lots of packing that night. Monday was my last class with Sister Adams. She always brung the spirit into the classroom with her. My teachers did a great job of making sure I was improving and pushing myself to learn more and to SYL. I am so grateful for them and there efforts. My district is getting somewhat mixed up and will be different in Manila. Packed the rest Monday afternoon, it was a lot of sorting and weighing my bags. That night I had to weigh my two check-in luggage bags and they both had to be under 50lbs. Delta Airlines took them that night and so I didn't have to worry about them until I get to Manila. I left the Provo MTC this weeks Tuesday afternoon to Salt Lake City Airport. Then to now in LAX, it was a two hour flight here. Wrote most of this email in LAX. I've had a 4 hour layover but now flying soon to Manila Philippines which will be a 14 hour flight. Wish me luck in the Philippines. Hope yall are doing great! Previous Letter Next Letter

8b617253-f96f-4325-8592-b34844c2a2b4 Elder Kurt Felix Back to Missionary Letters The Perfect Example Hello everyone!! I hope all is well!! This last week has been really good, lots of humidity and strong sun💪. A thing I've been thinking about is Diligence and Obedience and how they go hand in hand, then realizing that we all have a perfect example of what's good in life through Jesus Christ . 11 And behold, I am the light and the life of the world; and I have drunk out of that bitter cup which the Father hath given me, and have glorified the Father in taking upon me the sins of the world, in the which I have suffered the will of the Father in all things from the beginning. The Lord will make his will known unto us if we are willing to follow and be obedient and Diligent to what he says. Much Love, Elder Felix Previous Letter Next Letter

64b52ba5-4c7f-447f-81a3-e4d08f1694bd Elder Brandon Perkins Back to Missionary Letters 1 year in the greatest work G'day everyone, this past week I hit a year on the mission. It has been one of the greatest years of my life. I have seen countless miracles, and my testimony of the Savior and his work has been strengthened. I love the people of Queensland Australia! 🇦🇺 https://photos.app.goo.gl/r9bVRUjSG8u6uZof6 The work in Kenmore is great, we are working with one friend named Kylie who is on Baptismal date for August 29th. She is super excited to be baptized. We have the best new members, this past weekend we had a culture night and our new members really showed out. Enos 1 7 And I said: Lord, how is it done? 8 And he said unto me: Because of thy faith in Christ, whom thou hast never before heard nor seen. And many years pass away before he shall manifest himself in the flesh; wherefore, go to, thy faith hath made thee whole. Previous Letter Next Letter

d83fbca9-dbbf-484b-9c68-d751acead15e Elder Bryant Denninghoff Back to Missionary Letters Hello Hola yall, how's it going? Wow, these past 11 months have been pretty wild. I have definitely seen a huge change in almost all aspects of my life. I have definitely been trying to work hard here in Uruguay and have found such a great joy that comes from learning, growing, and more than anything helping EVERYONE know our savior Jesus Christ. I've been jumping around Uruguay here's a list of the places I've been at and also my comps Libertad, Montevideo (Elder Duncan - Idaho) Artigas (Elder Colmán - Paraguay) Colonia (Elder Olsen - Arizona) Nuevo Paris, Montevideo (Elder Pacay - Guatemala) Salto (Elder Spaeth Ohio) Salto (Elder Santana Brazil) Something funny that happened 10 months ago was that we invited an inactive member to church and he came super drunk and basically ruined the whole meeting. A bunch of other stuff has happened as well. I just don't wanna be annoying and write a long email. Right now I'm training a new missionary from Brazil (Elder Santana) and it's been a blast. And don't worry, this is the first email that I have written. Don't be worried. I wasn't sending anything. Also, I think someone in this list asked me if they could put my emails in a published thing for mesquite, and my answer is yes go for it. I think if I were to share anything with you all it would be about the Book Of Mormon. I have seen for the past 10 months the impact such a testament of Jesus Christ has on those who at least try to accept it. In the last chapter of 2 nefi the verses 10-15 are so amazing. Go read it. Love and miss you all!! Previous Letter Next Letter