10/11/2010

Hey Everyone!
This week went okay, nothing special really happened =) other than it was my birthday on Friday. So that was pretty cool. So i will start where i left off last week. When i finished emailing last week we went to a place called lopues East to go bowling for mine and Elder Potters Birthdays! It was way fun. we had it planned for 3 weeks here in the office. It was kind of an Office activity. Even President came!!! it was way cool. Not many people ever get to see President Tobias do anything like that. He even wore civilian cloths. it was really strange to see him in a short sleeve shirt. He walked in and we were all very shocked. So he is a pretty old guy... and we tought we were going to have to go easy on him because he isn't in great health. but he starts off the game with two strikes... needless to say we didn't go easy on him... and also needless to say he kicked our buts.... he got a 121.... my highest score was 113 and i got third place. elder Potter got 117... so it was a fairly close game. President even paid for it all =) so after the Bowling match we all left and Elder Potter went with President to the mission home to make bread for our "Family Home Evening" with the presidents family. Me and elder Theobald went grocery shopping for the week.... we spent over 2,000 Pesos on food.... That is alot of money.... almost 40 dollars...... after we were done shopping we ran back to the office so elder albert could finish his work and then we were off to the mission home to do our Family Home Evening. We started it and we did the usual spiritual though opening hymn stuff and then President tobias started the lesson. we listened to a talk given to the new mission presidents this year by Dallin H. Oaks. It was a really good talk and then it was time for food and games. We played games first. Just random fun games. One was called, Boom, Bounce, Boink. It was way fun, then we played a game called signs. It was way fun to play these with president and his family. After we played games i got to say the closing prayer and bless the food.... President doesn't speak Ilonggo so my choices were Tagalog or English... So i chose english because i am no longer able to pray in english... my grammer is just way bad now. but its okay. i did okey speaking in tagalog even though i haven't really spoken in very much since i left the MTC. but it was okay and every was saying ABAW!!!! (Wow) It was really funny. After wards we had a weird mix of foods. Pizza Hut, Pansit Canton, Rice, and Adobo. It was really good and completly free. that was the best part. On my actual birthday nothing really happened. i had to do a lot of work... so it wasn't much of a birthday. But for the rest of the week nothing really happened...


1 Week Later....
Haha. No now it has been another week since i started this email. i had to go run some errands before i was able to finish this letter so now here is this weeks email haha. Sorry. anyways. this week was pretty good. i had some good and bad news for the week. the good news was that for us it was finally general conference. and that means we got to listen to the prophets and apostles... AND sit in air con all day!!! it was awesome. conference was so great and i learned so much. i really wish that conference came more often. anyways. that was the good news. The bad news... Well not really bad news i am way happy about it but things will be changing..... I will be going out of the office.... President called me into his office and told me that i would be leaving the office and would be released as an office elder.... He told me that i will most likely be training a new missionary....... SCARY!!! i have only been here 6 months.... i will be the first from my group..... But it is now official that i will be leaving the office.... The person replacing me showed up today... its kinda sad... i will really miss being in the office. but its okay. i'm excited for a new adventure and that means lots of good experiences. Well that is really it for this week. nothing new really happened. i really miss you guys though. I love you all and thank you for your prayers. please just continue praying for the people here that they will accept the gospel! Well i love you
Halong Pirme (always be careful)


Love always,
Elder Larsen