March 11, 2012

Hi Family -
Wow. Looks like you guys are going to have a nice, busy week. Sounds like fun. I have always wanted to go to the arches. Maybe I will have to take a road trip when I get home. Anyway, awesome. Congratulations to Emily and congratulations to Travis on their marriages. Also, Happy Birthday to Grandma on the 17th. Good luck with everything at work Dad. I know that if the deal goes through or if it doesn't the Lord knows what is best for you. I encourage you to make sure you have some Book of Mormons whenever you go on your trips just in case. Always be ready and always search for those opportunities. Actually I encourage all of you to have a Book of Mormon and search for a way to share it. Pray and think about it. At least have access to it so you can give it out. You never know who God will put into your path. Just give it a try.

So Haley and Cole come soon. That is exciting. Have lots of fun. Tell baby Cole I say hello. Tell Connor good luck and have fun on his mission. Thanks for the update on Elder Haycock and Elder Garrison. That is some exciting stuff.

So San Gab. My companion is great. We get along great and have lots of good times. We are teaching well together. He helps me to keep speaking and gets me to the gym to play basketball. It isn't that I don't want too, but when I get a companion that likes that too, it makes things easier. We are still teaching some big families. The Quieta famiy is a mom and dad and 6 girls. They are one of my favorite investigators. They are progressing slowly but surely. Just making sure they are reading and working on getting them to church. Now the oldest has a job making her work until 8 or 9. So we teach mom, dad, and #3. The younger girls listen too. #5 reads all the time, she is 6 or 7 yrs. old. The other family I love in the Gacusan family. A nanay (mother) and her 3 or 4 children. #1 now lives in Bulihan with her asawa (spouse). #2 gets home form work about 8 so that is usually when we teach them. #3 and 4 read a lot. Nanay reads too and they love the lessons. We just have a hard time getting them to church. They are great families. Hopefully it makes sense. If not I will send some pictures and try to clear things.

Things are warm here. Today it is cloudy and a bit rainy. It is becoming summer. You asked about the creepy crawly things I've seen, I have seen some big worms. I have seen a really small praying mantis. That was cool. I saw a cool redish pink dragon fly. I saw some orange bug and I have seen lots of big cockroaches.

I hope you have a good week and I hope to see some pictures next week. love, Elder Woolf