Week 96

Hello Friends and Family,

It's great to be here and write you again this amazing week here in Alaminos

This week we enjoyed another P-Day and I bought a couple of souvenirs, so I will not be going home empty handed.

My personal studies have becoming more investigator focused meaning as I am reading the Book of Mormon I think about how that specific verse or section will help other people in their lives. This way of studying is definitely more enjoyable, spiritual, and the 1 hour seems to just fly by.

The weather while proselyting has been great with it always being sunny, but with a nice cool beach breeze, so that  has been a nice blessing. I don't think that will last much longer so I will enjoy it while I can. 😊

I will just tell you that I love this branch and area so much and it is a huge blessing to have such amazing youth here that work with us all the time making our investigators feel very fellow shipped. There are five 18 to 21 year old youth that are all filling out their mission papers at the same time and it is great to work with them and help them prepare for their missions.❤

That is all for this week.

Elder Terry

Week 95

This was sent by our beloved New Mission Secretary Elder Evans

Dear Huntington Beach California Stake,

One of our fine missionaries from your stake, Elder Collin Joseph Terry, will complete his mission on 27 March, 2019, with an honorable release and will be returning home. According to his proposed itinerary, he is scheduled to arrive in John Wayne on flight DL 5729 on March 27th at 4:02pm local time. 

Elder Terry has rendered faithful service and has achieved substantial personal growth. His willingness to learn and the effort he has put forth for the growth of the Kingdom have been an inspiration to both members and missionaries alike. He has served in various areas and assignments where he has made a tremendous and is now serving as a Trainer. In these areas of increased responsibility, he has served faithfully, performed his duties well, and rendered valuable service. It has been a pleasure laboring with him in the Philippines Urdaneta Mission. 

The time is at hand.

It still hasn't hit me yet that I'm old in the mission, but I am.

Last P-day we went to see the ocean for the first time in Elder Collin's life. I feel bad for people who live in the Mid West.

He took this great pic though of this fisherman

This P-day we went to Bani falls and met up with our boys

Last Friday was also Elder Collin's B-Day so we had a lot of hard work and "Appointments" this week. This was a great lesson with the Magto Family. hahaha

"Missionary work IS Missionary fun"

Love you all

Elder Terry

Week 94

Hello Friends and Family,

I am very happy to write you again this amazing week. This week was particularly exciting due to the ground breaking of the Urdaneta Temple which we watched in our stake centers. The temple was announced back in 2010 and finally happened this week almost 9 years later. Elder Holland, the Philippines area presidency, and many other high up visitors such as mayors and government officials came to witness the event both members and non members. It was an honor to be here. Holland especially talked about the amazing history of the Philippines!! He talked about how there are around a million members and over 100 stakes in the Philippines and for us to understand how fast the work is here in this country he made 2 people in the congregation stand. First he had stand up the first missionary to ever serve in the Philippines who served around the 1960's and second he made stand the very first stake president, temple president, and area seventy. Both of them still alive and well.

Hearing this amazing news just got me excited to be apart of this amazing history.

So mater where we need to go we will find a way

and enjoy ourselves along the way. 😁

I got my package! The beef jerky was the best and I am pretty sure that is Allison on the cover of the wubble

Last 2 months

Love, Elder Terry

Week 93

Hello Friends and Family.

This week was literally the best filled with lots of great memories and adventures and I am just so happy to be here and work as a missionary. As most of you know Missionary work is hard, but I can say it doesn't feel like work at all and the week just goes by so fast because of all the great things we get to do.

On Saturday we had a baptism for these amazing people and seeing them enter into the waters of baptism was just a great blessing.

We had Zone Interviews this week and on Elder Ramos' Birthday HE made chicken Adobe for us. He is very sweet. We had some visitors as well. (Sister Espinosa, Elder Nielson, and Elder Stevys)

Don't worry later that night we bought Elder Ramos a cake and had an FHE at our Investigator's house.

 

We had 3 Community Service Projects this week and one of them was fixing the electricity in someone's house. Good thing Elder Collins and Elder Tay Tay know what their doing cause I had no clue. haha

The other Service projects we did consisted of clearing a school classrooms from remodeling and cutting down an over grown bamboo tree and planting new ones.

Earlier this morning we woke up at 5 am to go hiking. It was way fun because a ton of the youth and single adults from our branch wanted to come and we had a blasts exploring huge caves.

There were so many more pics from this week, and I would love to share everything with you, but every P-day at around 3 we have members and a lot of non-members as well come over the the church to play volleyball with us, so I will just have to write more next week.

Sending Love to you all

-Elder Terry

Week 92

agyamanak,
Hello I am back mga mahal ko. I am happy again to be here and write about this great week in Alaminos.

I realized last week I didn't give too much info so I will try to update you more this week and the stuff that went on here

Here is a pic of the house that we live in. It is only a 2 minute walk from the church and city and it is PINK. Random people we meet on the street refer to us as the guys from the pink house which is kind of weird.

We were in a trio this whole week with Elder Ramos being our addition, the cuteiest , sweetiest, and shortiest filipino guy in the world and is going to train a new guy named, Elder Taylor.

We are having a great time here together burning trash together, zapping bugs, lizards, and each other, and saving goats lives.

Elder Ramos saved their lives

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If you have any more questions you would like to know just let me know and I will be sure to write more about it next week.

Love,

Elder Terry

Week 91

Happy New Year

It is another grand privilege to write you all and to feel your love and support.

This week was actually pretty monumental because after being in Urdaneta City/Zone since May I have actually transferred and it was by far one of the hardest times to say goodbye too all the Members and Investigators and recent converts that I have gotten so close to the past 8 months.

But this new area is way beautiful!

I am now back in Alaminos Zone the farthest Zone from Urdaneta and my new companion is Elder Collins from Idaho who is only 5 weeks in the field so I get to finish his training up. As you can tell here I have gotten very white in the Office.

I also already love the people here so much. These kids had gummy teeth and they wanted to share so...

I am so excited to give it my all in my, most likely, last area here in Alaminos 1st Branch. If you have any questions for me just send me an email and I will be sure to update you in my next post.

I love you all and Happy new year!!!!

Elder Terry

Week 90

Feliz Navidad mga Kapatid

It is another great pleasure to be here and write you all this Christmas time. This week has been overwhelmingly filled with blessings and miracles and I am pleased to update you on just a few of the great things that happened this week.

Just this last Saturday we had a Stake White Baptism here in Urdaneta and even though we didn't have any real snow we did have a lot of white with a total of 18 Baptisms Candidates all in all in just one day. Actually every Stake in our Mission had a White Christmas so this has been a great week for us all here.

These were the candidates from our Ward, Urdaneta 2nd Ward, with our Candidates Tatay Diony, Nanay Tessie, Sister Carol, Sister Clarisse, Xyriel, Paul Benedict, and Paul Cedrick.

I like this pic of Elder Seve and I with our van. (the van's name is Mufasa)

Also this week we had an Interview for Baptism in another church building and we noticed the Ping pong table again and knowing that we have a curfew of 6PM on Christmas Eve. and would have lots of free time that night, we called the Bishop of that Ward and asked if we could take the table. He said no. We took it any way. Check it.

Joke Bishop said it's aight

Also I am pretty excited about my last video call home tomorrow. See you soon Fam.

Love, Elder Terry