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Magandang hapon po sa aking pamilya!

Are you boning up on your tagalog? I hope so. You'll be here soon enough. I hope all plans will work out , but no matter what happens it'll be fine. 

I've had a pretty quick week and time is only going faster. We find find find and try and teach teach teach. Pretty much a regular missionary life. But there have been a few cool highlights this week. 

First off we're working with this recent convert family that's so super strong. They're only about a year old in the church but they're so excited to go to the temple , despite having almost no money to do so. They're faith is just strong enough to pay the pamasahe [transportation money]. So it's been a lot of fun teaching them and helping them , and the husband who is still really young is giving us referrals like crazy. He's very very excited to share the Gospel. So that was our Monday and Thursday night work.

Tuesday ... was Zone Interviews. That was pretty awesome. Me and Elder Hyatt gave our workshop about Gospel Studies and studies for our investigators and it went really well. The zone got a lot out of it and we're excited to see some changes in their studies. We often make the mistake , as missionaries , in just reading the scriptures and what not in our personal studies and sometimes companion studies and not studying for those we're teaching later that day. So that was our focus to have more investigator-focused and important studies. It's impacted our lessons and we're excited for the zone. 

Sorry this email is kind of distracted ... I'm emailing you guys ... andddd watching this Press Conference with Elder Holland and Nelson about the AGE CHANGING FOR MISSIONARIES! We saw this yesterday on one of the office computers but we were freaking out , haha. That's so so awesome. So many more sisters are going to serve and they are giants in the work! We're really excited. In our zone , alone , the two sister companionships are the hardest working and pump out strong converts. Missionary work needs so many more sisters. Not to mention it will foster generations of really firm families as so many more RMs will be marrying. Again .. stoked.

So yeah , besides the zone interviews we then - the very next day - gave two more workshops to the zone about stuff we had learned from the Zone Leaders Council meeting. So we basically had to take the info they taught and teach it in our own way. We gave one workshop to a district leader and we took two. Our first one was okay , but the second one was amazing. The revelation hit us the night before between 10 and midnight. We were just running on adrenalyne the next morning , seeing as we were lacking sleep , but it turned out so so good. The topic was Becoming a Disciple and there was an insanely strong spirit in the room and we talked about stuff , read stuff , recited stuff , did stuff. All in all we felt super close as a zone and a couple missionaries started crying , ha. It was just a really special moment in the mission and we know we'll see some outward and inward affects soon. 

Other than that it's just been a really fast-paced week that I don't have too much time to write about. 

So I think that'll suffice for this week. 

I'm still doing really good and try not to think about the end too much , but have accepted it at this point. All there is , is to keep working up until the last minute. It's been quite and a journey and I still have a little road to go.

Thanks for everything , love you all.

-Elder White

p.s- please give me a shout if you've gotten a letter [outside the family]