Polatis Missionaries: STILL TOGETHER!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADDY!!!!! WWAAHHOOO!! Here you are already 16!!!! Sister Arnold and I will celebrate here for you! I am sure we will find something great!! I hope you have a wonderful day and dont party too hard!!! I cant believe you are old! HAHA jk! LOVE YOU BOOCH! I love all the pictures and all the letters! Thanks so much!! Well this week was pretty fun! I loved it! Well Monday we had a FHE with the Empanaldo family! We just love them! They just moved here about a month ago and she is American and he is Filipino! They are so awesome! We met his brother and sister-in-law and their three kids who live with them! We found out the the Sister in law isnt a member but had so many questions about the church so we told her we wanted to come back and she willingly accepted and we are stoked because we feel that she will be golden! We went back to her on Friday and we taught about the restoration and she was excited and started asking about temples! So thumbs up for that one! She is so nice and sweet! We had so much fun we played games and ate and it was bad but we felt like we were serving in the states ha! Tuesday we went out and President was encouraging us to find more investigators so we went to a subdivision and we started "apartment hunting" Ya we did just move into a new house but we needed a way to talk to people and it wasn't a lie because we are always looking for new places for missionaries to live! So we Opened our mouths to everyone that was outside! It was so much fun! We passed out pamphlets like crazy! So we gave them a week to think about our short powerful message and sometime this week we will go see them! We laughed like the whole time, what people dont realize is that We feel just as awkward standing on your door step as they do when they open it and see us there! HAHA but it was so fun! We hope to gain a testimony of OYM-ing! But after we went and taught Bro. Rodney! Sheesh he is solid! I still feel like he just was waiting and now he can move forward! He has such a strong testimony of everything! He is always prepared for us and it makes teaching more effective! I just love him! He was baptized on Saturday! It was a little bit stressful, we thought we were so prepared but nothing really every goes that smooth! But he was baptized and it all worked out in the end! He bore a solid testimony and I am not worried about him one bit! He has the cutest family ever! Wednesday we had our Zone training! We learned how to be better planners! Before the mission I never planned anything, Maybe I wasted alot of time haha! But now I know a little bit more and I think after I might just be a planner! Who knows! HA We found a new investigator and her family! Her name is Pricilla! She lives in the area where that fire was so she was embarrassed to have us come into her house, it is almost all re built and I thought it looked good, she just didnt have any place for us to sit, but we love the floor so it was fine! We taught about the Plan of Salvation and it really intrigued her! But she didnt come to church, so we will see what happened and try again! Our ward doesnt have a nursery so we went and talked to the Bishop and he told us that if we could find volunteers then he would get all the supplies, so we thought of 2 perfect people that would be perfect and we asked them and they were so excited to get a calling and be able to help! So hopefully next week is when it will start and Relief Society will be quiet:) On Friday we went to teach a lesson and we were getting punted a little bit, well alot BUT that didnt stop us from having a good time! We were right by the beach and it was a low tide! And we went out on the water and were looking for crabs with people! It was so fun and just what we needed to lift our spirits up! We took some pictures and it really was so pretty! Very nice view!! Hope it was allowed haha:) We did a musical number with a member of our ward yesterday! He wanted Sister Arnold to sing with him and Me to play the piano, so he picked 3 SONGS! HAHA so that is what we did, all 3! Only went over time by 15 minutes haha! But he was cool and it all went smoothly! But Sunday was a little bit of a downer, alot of our investigators didnt come to church! What a heart crusher! We got home and we were way discouraged but we did a little reevaluation of what we needed to do so we will be more.....um....I cant think of the word...PESKY! We decided that we need to visit them daily haha we will see if that works! But I love you all! I love all the support and prayers! I definitely have the best support system! Everyone is just progressing and moving forward! It is awesome!

Miss you all! Take care and be good! Continue with the little things, they really do make you or break you! MMUUAAHH!!!!