Updates from Jacob,
Family,
Alright now for the hardest part of my week is sitting hear trying to
remember all the things that happened. To start off I will say that I
am really going to miss the family Reunion this year and all the crazy
things that happen at that epic event. Also I think the rain might
have stopped because we are on our second day with no rain just crazy
hot temperature. I think that it might be a sign that something really
bad might be coming our way. It is the calm before the storm.
Alright the week, So Monday came and went with the super awesome Multi
zone activity that I talked about last week and then we were moving on
to Tuesday. We had district meeting as usual and then we went with the
Guimbal Elders down to shop for some food and what not and then when
we came home we headed strait over to our soon to be baptized member
of the Church. We went to go review the baptismal questions with her
and see how she and her mom were doing they were both super pumped for
Saturday because that is when we had scheduled the date for. Wednesday
rolls around and the rain comes back with a vengeance, half way
through the day we all receive text messages from President Aquino that
we should keep working and not let the rain slow us down. He said that
umbrellas would protect us. My comp and I had been battling the rain
and then it started to come down we both open our umbrella and then
they both snapped in half under the weight of the rain. That was super
fun running back to the house almost a mile. Lucky for me with all
this weight I have been losing I was able to run pretty darn fast
haha. I will now skip through the end of the week because Saturday and
Sunday are the most exciting days of the week by far. Saturday we had
a service project down with the Zone Leaders in Oton.
The news was that we would be loading sandbags on our back and
carrying them to the house of a member who lives on the beach. Their
house has a tendency to flood up to their knees during the rainy
season and yep that is the current season. It was super fun and the
best workout that I have gotten all week. Three non stop hours of
loading 60 pound bags of sand on your head, back and arms and running
them the house before the fast approaching storm takes out their house
again. But when we were done I have never felt better the family was
super happy and they even fed us some food. Bonus because I was super
hungry. On to Sunday, Me and the comp were a little late to church due
to the fact that my comp did not have any Gs so he washed some and put
them in front of the fan and we waited. But O what a mistake being
late to church today, when we rolled up hot we saw the Van of
President Aquino. Our hearts sank into the ground, we were able to
sneak into the back of priesthood, but then President stood up and
asked my comp to go out so they could have an interview. Well lets
just say President and my comp are not the best of friends, we could
hear the yelling from down the hall. After he called our whole
district into an interview. What happened next was a butt whopping, he
really got into all of the Elders there about attitude and how they
should be following more rules. He really did not go at me that hard
and I think that is because I was the only one doing weekly emails to
him. The rest of the day was super good we visited all our family and
made appointments for the next week and we moved our baptism to next
Saturday so I am super excited for that.
Today we headed up to Mia-gao to visit Elder Larson and play some
basketball and eat at some really good food joints. Man they live
super close to the University of the Philippines so they have really
Americanized town and it was super fun. And we got some homemade Ice
cream and grilled pork. What a great way to relax and spend a P day.
Alright now down to the questions so that mom does not get mad. For my
birthday I really dont need much, just some good snacks like gummy
bears and that kinda stuff just be creative haha, some letters and yeah that is all I really need, I
am supposed to be forgetting the world right, so yeah I am a simple
guy. I will be super grateful for anything.
I love you all and I hope that you have a great week and try not to
have to much fun without me at the Reunion. Tell everyone that I love
them and hope they are doing well.
Love Elder Swanton
The Pics are of What is flying around at night when you cant see, Also
chilling with Larson and his comp Dapat in Miag-ao. Also Elder Cinco
he is the sickest little Phillipeno he is transferring on Thursday and
when he heard me and Larson singing with the guitar he said " Elder I
am now your Biggest Fan" Love that Elder and will miss him
Alright now for the hardest part of my week is sitting hear trying to
remember all the things that happened. To start off I will say that I
am really going to miss the family Reunion this year and all the crazy
things that happen at that epic event. Also I think the rain might
have stopped because we are on our second day with no rain just crazy
hot temperature. I think that it might be a sign that something really
bad might be coming our way. It is the calm before the storm.
Alright the week, So Monday came and went with the super awesome Multi
zone activity that I talked about last week and then we were moving on
to Tuesday. We had district meeting as usual and then we went with the
Guimbal Elders down to shop for some food and what not and then when
we came home we headed strait over to our soon to be baptized member
of the Church. We went to go review the baptismal questions with her
and see how she and her mom were doing they were both super pumped for
Saturday because that is when we had scheduled the date for. Wednesday
rolls around and the rain comes back with a vengeance, half way
through the day we all receive text messages from President Aquino that
we should keep working and not let the rain slow us down. He said that
umbrellas would protect us. My comp and I had been battling the rain
and then it started to come down we both open our umbrella and then
they both snapped in half under the weight of the rain. That was super
fun running back to the house almost a mile. Lucky for me with all
this weight I have been losing I was able to run pretty darn fast
haha. I will now skip through the end of the week because Saturday and
Sunday are the most exciting days of the week by far. Saturday we had
a service project down with the Zone Leaders in Oton.
The news was that we would be loading sandbags on our back and
carrying them to the house of a member who lives on the beach. Their
house has a tendency to flood up to their knees during the rainy
season and yep that is the current season. It was super fun and the
best workout that I have gotten all week. Three non stop hours of
loading 60 pound bags of sand on your head, back and arms and running
them the house before the fast approaching storm takes out their house
again. But when we were done I have never felt better the family was
super happy and they even fed us some food. Bonus because I was super
hungry. On to Sunday, Me and the comp were a little late to church due
to the fact that my comp did not have any Gs so he washed some and put
them in front of the fan and we waited. But O what a mistake being
late to church today, when we rolled up hot we saw the Van of
President Aquino. Our hearts sank into the ground, we were able to
sneak into the back of priesthood, but then President stood up and
asked my comp to go out so they could have an interview. Well lets
just say President and my comp are not the best of friends, we could
hear the yelling from down the hall. After he called our whole
district into an interview. What happened next was a butt whopping, he
really got into all of the Elders there about attitude and how they
should be following more rules. He really did not go at me that hard
and I think that is because I was the only one doing weekly emails to
him. The rest of the day was super good we visited all our family and
made appointments for the next week and we moved our baptism to next
Saturday so I am super excited for that.
Today we headed up to Mia-gao to visit Elder Larson and play some
basketball and eat at some really good food joints. Man they live
super close to the University of the Philippines so they have really
Americanized town and it was super fun. And we got some homemade Ice
cream and grilled pork. What a great way to relax and spend a P day.
Alright now down to the questions so that mom does not get mad. For my
birthday I really dont need much, just some good snacks like gummy
bears and that kinda stuff just be creative haha, some letters and yeah that is all I really need, I
am supposed to be forgetting the world right, so yeah I am a simple
guy. I will be super grateful for anything.
I love you all and I hope that you have a great week and try not to
have to much fun without me at the Reunion. Tell everyone that I love
them and hope they are doing well.
Love Elder Swanton
The Pics are of What is flying around at night when you cant see, Also
chilling with Larson and his comp Dapat in Miag-ao. Also Elder Cinco
he is the sickest little Phillipeno he is transferring on Thursday and
when he heard me and Larson singing with the guitar he said " Elder I
am now your Biggest Fan" Love that Elder and will miss him
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| Night Fury uncovered |
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| Me and Elder Larsen |
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| Elder Cinco |
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