Week 73

Hello Friends and Family

This week

I was pleased to have an opportunity to hang out with Elder Schmutz of the Seventy and he sent this email to my parents. (Down Below)

Dear Brother and Sister Terry,

I had a most enjoyable interview with your son, Elder Terry, during our recent tour of the Urdaneta Mission.  Elder Terry has had a wonderful mission and is now approaching the last eight or nine months of his service.  He is a fine young man and an outstanding missionary.  You can be very proud of him, as he has served with love and devotion.

I thought you might enjoy this photo of your son. 

Thank you for raising such a good young man.  His mission has changed his life for the better.  (But as you can see, he still has his personality).

With appreciation,

Elder Evan A. Schmutz

But other than that we have had a lot of work outside.

We walked down this one super long alley way just because we felt like it and we found a ton of part member families and it was cool looking and the people were really sweet and open.

I'm fragile

How I feel in the office

Food of the week: SNAIL

Bye bye

Elder Terry

Week 72

Our Investigators Elwin(left) and Anton(right) was baptized last week and I finally got the pics
They now both have the Aaronic priesthood and plan to bless the Sacrament this Sunday. Huge blessing.

My first day here in Urdaneta Mission I taught my first lesson in this very room and Nanay Omo(in white standing up) just remembers me from getting sick because they feed me a bunch of Ube and that I could not speak Tagalog at all. haha

I am in the back because Elder Llorico is way more gwapo than me so I am basically invisible to Investigators.

The members here are way sweet and work with us so we buy them food and stuff.

Here are some other pictures some members took and forwarded to my parents

Mission SecreTERRY update: I am still in training so I am actually still working in Urdaneta 3rd ward with Elder Llorico and we are still the Zone Leaders as of right now, but that won't be for too long.

TBH I don't know why I was called to this position as Mission Secretary, but I have learned so many life skills in the past couple weeks that will probably help me in the long run, so that will be cool.

Love Elder Terry

Week 71 - Mission SecreTerry

Hi friends and fam it's is a pleasure to email y'all again this week.

The only news I got is that I have officially been called as mission secretary, which means I will now be doing responsibilities such as.

Emailing back the worried parents

Booking all the flights and buses for in-coming and out-coming missionaries

Paper work, computer work, future missionary work (stress)

Making programs and planning activities

and much more.

The benefits is I am in the air conditioned mission office (I still am proselyting from 5P.M. till 9P.M.), I get to drive a car which is air conditioned, I have to go to air conditioned malls to buy things all the time, and the House I am living in is the biggest house in the whole mission and it is....air conditioned.

I will for sure get super white

This is my office

I'm kind of a big deal

Here is P Diddy, Ariana Grande, and I shoppin' it up

Peace out

Love Elder Terry

Week 70

So I moved to another house because our house keep flooding and through all that mess I lost my camera charger so I have no pictures. I'll just send the pics that got sent to me and figure it out later haha, but we had a musical fireside, a baptism, I will get a new companion, and a lot more happened this week. Sorry

This was a while ago, but i'll shout the Esparcia Family out for being awesome members.

 The floods are slowly going away here in the mission.

 The water is actually coming from my tears b/c I miss Chipotle.

 The boots literally didn't even help

 Someone also sent me this so...

Thanks fams

Love, Elder Terry

Week 69

Hey what's up

It was pioneer day and I participated,

But even the cows think I am weird.

So President Espinosa is filled with the spirit and has received the revelation that this will be our new missionary attire. I approve!

Update on the floods is that they have not stopped, but I got boots.

A lot more happened this week, but I forgot to charge my camera hahaha sorry

Elder Terry luvs you🎺

Week 68

Another Great week filled with adventures

Our Investigator Maximo invited us to an FHE which was weird and we didn't know why he wanted us to come so badly that Monday.

He was excited because he made us this food which is called Ulo ng Manok which means.....Head of a Chicken(can you see it below). They chop of only the beak and everything else is still there.

It would be rude not to eat it so....yup. It was not bad at all

Next day we got fed this from one of our other Investigators. It's called ararawan which basically is farm crickets.

and of course I ate it. 10/10 would definetely eat again. Soooo good

This is us eating lugaw a nice hot soup because it has been cold this week. It started raining last Tuesday and has not stopped since. This is a pic of Elder Yo Rico and I after walking outside for only 10 seconds.

Houses are flooded BUT the work will never slow down!!!

Also Lastly we were blessed to have mga BINYAG this week for the Cansino Family.
Order left to right(Bishop Talusig, Pogi, Nanay Marlita, Leamore, Tristan, and Pogi 2)

Great great week super masaya

Love, Elder Terry

Week 67

I love you all family and friends and this week was another awesome time filled with many great experiences such as...

Having FHE (family home evening) with our Investigators(The Cansino Family) to show them what's up. We role played as Investigators and they taught US the lessons. We also ate worms and stuff.

 binyag (baptism) records boooiiiii for dayzzz

Richard Chua was binyaged (baptized) who has literally been going to church waiting to be baptized for 6 months, but didn't have approval from his parents so we got permission from the area presidency instead. BLESSINGS.

I drive a car now with Elder Stevy

Love Elder Terry