SPLATTED FROGS, ERKEL ST. GEORGE FOLK AND A LITTLE AIR JORDAN!!

More Baptisms set!!

YAYYYY!! I am glad you sent me the LES MIS SONGS!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Also I am glad letters will be coming my way!!(: I haven't gotten a letter from family in a while haha... But how was your week? How is school? Yeah the person has like vanished off the face of the earth.. We havnt been able to contact him at all or any thing. Its actually really sad to see this cause he was doing so good and coming to church and reading the BOM and now we have no idea we havnt heard from him in a while.. And yes I got to bap both of them! And it was really cool. I have done bap for the dead where I was the actual baptiser but this was just different but some what the same. But in all a really cool experience! Yeah keep a list of all the good movies that come out! Did you get me my queen size bed??(: I sure hope so! THats my one request haha! When you say heather ovard you mean ansly right?.. Thats cool tho!

So this week was kind of a struggle a little bit. Since we just got those people baptized we didnt have as many investigators to go and teach but we still had a lot of LA. So elder Rama and I made a goal that we would do a lot of finding this week.. This goal didnt go to well. We are having a hard time finding in our area cause a good portion of it is in these nicer nebiorhoods where its Bawal to tract so we only have a small area where we can go and that area is all squaters and really poor area. And in our mission we try to go for people who have a little more money so we can continue to build the church and also it helps a lot with them staying active members if they have money for pamasahe and for tithing. So we kind of got shut down trying to find this week! But on the bright side we gave my favorite investigators a bap date!! And its a family! Its the half Nigerian half Filipeno family I was talking about! We gave the three kids bap dates (ages 14, 18, 26) and the Nanay said that she wanted her husband to get taught before she makes her descison so we are hoping he will come to the Philippines this month so we can teach him! And I aslo am hoping he will be accepting! But I love this family they are so great and I can see them changing their lives cause of this gospel! And its also a bonus that we can teach them in English haha!(: Also conf was really good!! I loved all the talks I heard expesilally the Prophets how he used the quote from the LDS basket ball player. "be the same person in the light and in the dark" Also for me what stood out to me were Chrislike Attributes and also serving others. We can all improve trying to be more Christlike and also serving other people. So for me I am going to try and really devolpe these christlike attributes and serving others! So lets all take the goal to serve others and be more christlike!!(: And I promise as we do we will bless and help the lives of others! So this week numbers wise kind of sucked but we commited four more people to baptism onMay 3! So lets hope and pray that they may all be able to be baptized! Also funny story the nigerian INV he is 26 and he his like a black kid from america, not trying to be racist but he his so he is just this big black guy who talks like a black guy haha. Any ways after conf I was talking to him and he was like " so thats the propeht?" and I was like yeah thats the Prophet Thomas S. Monson! And he said thats really cool! then he said I wanna be a prophet! hahaha this made me chuckle! I then explained to him that thats a good goal to have, but we dont choose who the prophets are only God himself calls someone to be a prophet! So thats my week!!

I love you mom so much! Thanks for always supporting me in every thing I do! I love you so much and miss you! 

Love elder Howell

Wedding Pics

Baptism AND NO BAPTISM AND WEDDING...OH MY!

First off I havnt watched Conf yet. We dont get it until one week later here.. So do not give me spoilers I am really excited for it!! And that lady where in Fairview does she live like address and all that stuff I need a lot more than Fairview haha.. And why is my car being driven?.. And will you do me a favor when you get this. To send me ALL of the Les Mis song lyrics please.. Just the lyrics! THANK YOU! But it does sound like conf was good! I will let you know what I think of it next week! But do you have more pics if the house yet? You were suppose to have them this week! SO I am following up on if you completed your assignment! haha To answer your questions... Yes my companion and I actually get along really well and I like him a lot. We actually are not bugged by eachother at all and we never get into disagreements! No new food actually today this member took us out to eat at this Chinese place that was really good! But thats not weird or different but it was good! I love you too mom! I hope you are still awake so you can do those favors for me!

Any ways this was a good week for me and elder rama! We were gearing up this week for our three baptisms which we had planned on Saturday and also the wedding. So we had to clean the chapel, prepare the program, make sure the font was working, and also preparing our candidates for baptism. Usually we aren't suppose to do all this on our own but the ward wasn't wanting to help us to much with the baptism.. So it was just me and elder Rama. But that's okay cause we were able to get every thing done in time for this very important event! So Saturday was the wedding at 3 and it was at the chapel. Every one was there and on time and it was so cool to see these two get married and having me be apart of bringing them together! It also made me trunkie cause they were getting married and I was like ahhh I wanna get married haha. But then they got married and then the baptism was scheduled for 4 so it was kind of a quick change from a wedding dress into baptismal clothes haha but it was awesome to see her ready to make a covenant with God at the baptism. Like I said we had three scheduled to be bap right? Well satan got ahold of one of our candidates and wasn't able to come he didn't even show up!! LIKE WHAT THE HECK?!?! And we told him that we could just do the service on Sunday morning before church but he didnt go to that or church on Sunday either! So I hope and pray that he is still interested in being bap and joining the church! And then the other one Nash was suppose to be there at 4 also just like everyone else! But they weren't there at 4 and everyone was ready to go so we called them like 100 times and nothing. And this continued until 5ish and the bishopric said hey we need to start i have things to do soon. So we started and I bap our INV Sheryl the one who just got married and still nothing from Nash! Then at 6 oclock 2 hours later they roll up! And the service was over and I had already changed out of my bap clothes and was getting ready to leave but we talked to the bishopric and they said they had time to do it. So I quickly changed back into my bap clothes and back into the water I went and we bap Nash and Sheryl that day! It may not have gone how I thought but nothing in my mission has gone "according to plan" I also learned a good lesson this week after this. That we need to trust in the Lord in all times, cause that morning during comp study we prayed that our Inv would be able to show up and be bap and that every thing would be okay. Cause at that moment was when our third inv Abien said he couldn't come. So we prayed hard that the other two would come and sure enough they came, and it was so awesome to baptize both of them and see how happy they were after they were baptized! So this week was really exciting for me! But that's about all that happened this week for me, well the most important part of the week! Love you!

A LITTLE GOLF ANYONE?

COOKED MOUSE?? WHAT?

Sounds like you had a good week! With furniture shopping and all! I am a little jealous that I am not there to pick stuff out!! And for my new room could I get a queen size bed??(: oh and the back yard how big is it? Cause when I get home I wanna get a dog aha.. And I would put his cage out back or side yard or something.. Just let me know the size! ha And do you have more pictures of the house and the area so I can get a better basis on it!! thanks!! Plus pics of the fam and just every thing!! Thanks!! As far as the money I just pulled it all out just in case I use it or something but thanks, and I am excited to hear back from you mom! Love you!

But this week was a good week for elder Rama and I! We found this family of Inv who are half Nigerian and half Filipino! There dad is still in Nigeria working as a doctor so they are pretty myaman! And the kids are perfect in english and Tagalog,but they are more comfortable in English so we teach in English to them! And they seem really interested with what we have! We have taught the whole restoration with them and they came to church with us on sunday! We also had a bunch of LAs come to church with us on sunday so that was really exciting for elder Rama and I. So we were really happy and to see all of them at church! Also like I said we have a baptism/marriage on saturday april 5th!! And there are 3 people getting baptized!! How exciting is that! My first three baptisms!! And one of them the one that is getting married has asked for me to baptize her!! And she is my favorite of the three INV!! So I am really happy to see her and her soon to be husband get married saturday morning and then get baptized saturday afternoon!! How cool is that?? I am just so happy!! I feel like Alma did as he was rejoicing so much and he was rejoicing to God for the continued blessings he had recieved!! Thats how I am!! I am so blessed to be able to get these people baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!! So keep Sheryl, Abien,and Nash in your prayers that every thing may go according to plan and that they will be able to get baptized on Saturday!! Also today for pday we went and hit golf balls at a driving range and I actually did good and I think that you would be impressed! We had a member take us and he had his own clubs(really nice callaway set) and we went there for an hour and hit a couple buckets so it was pretty fun!! Thats basically my week haha!! OHHH actually I have a story!! So there has been this mouse in our house for the last few weeks and we havnt been able to find him until last night... So elder Rama and I were cooking some food before we went to bed so we were using the stove top thing, and we were just heating up some water to boil and I was to the side stirring something and all of a sudden I heard a few squaks so I looked at the burner to my left and the mouse was under neath the burning coils and the pot!!! And he was being cooked by them basically!! So then he got so hot that is eye balls like exploded outside of his head hahaha! it was gross and burning mouse does not smell good if you were wondering!! So then we got some pliers and pulled out the half burned mouse and threw it away!! SO gross hahaha! Welcome to the Philippines haha joke lang!

Being Funny!!