APRIL 5

Hey

Its me again. How is everyone? I am well. The work went much better this week and we did some work. We still got punted some but we just worked around it and found a lot of new peaple to teach, so the week was succesfull. Right now got one of the coolest investigators. I have wrote a little bit about him already. His name is ramir mendoza. He is 27 yrs old. Man is he awesome. Yesterday was his 2^nd time coming to church, and it was fast and testimony meeting and yeah he born his testimony! He was seating next to us and all of a sudden he just got up and went to the stand. I was shoked and was wondering if that’s even allowed, ha. Man it was sweet! He actually introduced hgimself ans the newest member of the ward when HE got up there, ha, then He bore his testimony and was making everybody laugh while he did it talking about how he used to be a huge drinker and smoker and stuff and than he said how much his life has changed in like the last 3 weeks and how much happier he has been since we have been teaching him. Man he is great. He has made such huge and quick progress. We seriously only found him tracting like 3 ½ weeks ago. We gave him a baptismal gaol date like the 3^rd time teaching himm and then taught him about word of wisdom. He comes from a long background of cigarettes alchahol and druggs. He started smoking when he was 14 and he was in a band for like awhile. But he has been so willing to stop it all. Last week he told us when he gets a craving to smoke all he does is smell the cigarette. We actually just got done teaching him like 2 hrs ago and he has now thrown away his ash tray! Man he is legit. He is always thanking us for what we are doing for him. He has already gotten a quickly growing testimony about this gospel. Its so fun to teach him to and the spirit is always there to testify to him. He always shreads on his guitar and plays us songs. Yeah he is cool. I hope I am here to see him get baptized!

K so that’s about it for the work. I apreciatte the emails. I hope you all had a good easter Sunday. Here in the philippines it is called holy week and the whole week is like a holidy, especially on Friday. It’s a catholic thing and like 93+ % her are friggin catholic. We will watch conference next week. Mom I hope you are ok from your wipeout on the dirtbik, you best be carefull. Don’t get a concussion! Dad that’s great you got a job set up, finally. Good luck with that. Mom I think I havnt grown at all. I don’t know tho. Cody likely is taller than me. How tall is that lurp??? The weather is good, just hot and HUMID. Chaantell, I don’t need more jesus stickers yet, and no I have not found you a boyfreind, sorry I am not in the market. Oh and I don’t have a long board, just a freebord and you cant use that cuz you would kill your self in seconds. The long bord is codys. That is very weird you guys say that I am 1/3 done with the mish. I don’t like the sound of that. Ha. Its flyin by. Ok well I hope I got to most of your questions. I love you ALLLLLLL(theres one L for each of you) HAA. K iam roling.

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

MARCH 28

Hey there family,

How is everything going? I am good. Me and elder liddle are having fun. Elder liddle is real cool and we laugh a lot! He is white and even taller then me, ha weird! He is like 6’3”. We are working hard even the the work has slowed down some the last two weeks. We have lost a good amount of investigators lately cuz it is now the start of summer break here so everyone is leaving and going places, it’s a bummer but no big deal. We have gotten punted so much by are appointments lately and people are always gone or they say they are too busy even tho they got nothing to do, ha. We even got no showed by our bishop for a dinner apointment on elder liddles bday even after we reminf\ded him about it 3 hours before. Ha it was funny but we made up for by buying ourselves some icecream. Ha. But the work is still good, we just need to tract more this week and find the elect. Right now we have this one 20 yr old investigator that we cant get to progress cuz he cant read. He has come to church a butt load and stopee drinking and stuff but he cant do his reading assignments and cant really grasp the lessons and fully understand them. I guess he had a bad sickness when he was younger that effected his learning ability. So we decided that instead of just trying to teach him stuff he is having a hard time understanding we would teach him how to read. Its really hard to teach him cuz he really has a hard time reading. We started with the vowels this past week. We will see how that goes. Also one of our way awesome investigators is progressing great but we just found out that he isn’t married yet so now we have to figure out how to deal with that and get them married. The marriage stuff is a big problem here in the Philippines. We should be able to work it out tho and get him married and then baptized. Nothing else really I gots to say. Oh but hey something crazy… I got my mission call over a year ago already, hha. How fast does time fly? Fast for me, its wack! I can totally remember how awesome it was getting my mission call and finding out I was coming here. It was so cool, wow and now I am here doing the work trying my best to be all I can. That was a way fun time getting my call and the for months after getting ready to go. Cody you best get ready it will come quick! Hey well I was trying to email some pics but it wouldn’t work, I will try to send a cd with pics on it this week. Ok weel you all need to send me some letters! Ha. Ok well I gots to get going. I love you all. Stay cool!

Kitakitz

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

MARCH 22

Hello family.

Mom thanks for the pics. I am enjoying them. To bad I proly wont be able to print them. Rylie looks cute as ever and in some of the pics looks older. Brayden just looks toothless and ruthless! Cody looks like a scrub, wheres your ctr ring I bought you? Haley looks tall and older then I remember(are you wearing makeup?). And mom dad you look the same, Good! Thanks for that.

Ok so its been a good week I guess. Me and elder liddle are having some fun. We worked hard this week but got a decent amount of rejection. Well not a lot of rejection but a lot of punts. (punts= getting no showed). Ha we had one day we refer to as “palpak day” ha failure day. It wasn’t that bad but we got punted quite a few times, ha. Hey but we still made it fun. Let me give a little run down(this will be my story for the week.) so wee were working in this barangay called bocboc and we had a real good schedule planned out. We noticed a sabong(cockfight) going on and joked that proly all our investigators Would be there and not at home for us to teach them. Turns out that that is what happened. None of our investigators were home. Not even our back ups, ha. Thyen we walked past some dumb aso(dog) and had a good laugh at it as it tried to run away from us even tho it was attached to a leash nailed int to the ground. It was running around in circles and almost ripping off its head as it ran out of leash, haha. Crack up. Ha then we visited a less active as a backup and I showed them my ctr ring and asked what it ment and the lady said “cook the rice” ha I couldn’t stop laughing! Ha. Then we flew a kite in the middle of a rice field for like 5 minutes with somer kids. Then we were in this area we call “baby factory” cuz theres a bagillion bata(kids) there. And some grirl was standing on a stool and kept waking her hand against my neck measureing herself saying “hanggang dito,hanggang dito” (until here) asd I was scheduling an appointment. Yeah it was hilarious also. Then we dropped by one of our way cool investigato0rs (ramir) just to fallow up and he was jamming on his guitar and played us some good music for like five minutes. Then the day ended at one of our stubborn investigatorsa houses and it was cool cuz I saw a huge change in him and he went from almost getting dropped to now we will proly give him a baptismal date this week. Yeah so that was my palpak day, just cuz we got punted from a lot of appiointments but at the same time it was a super fun day cuz we were able to use our sense of humor. So we worked real hard this week and had like 6 peaple we thoyght forsure would be at church yesterday but we ended up having none! Ugh that’s my first week not having one investagator at church! Darn!. Oh and we got some way cool investigator right now named ramir Mendoza. We found him like a week and half ago and he is progressing real well. He already excepted a baptismal gaol date. He is lagit and hopfully coninuest to progress. Ok so that’s the update for the week. Sorry if stuff I said is confusing, I write these fast. Hey well I love you all and glad I got to see some pics. Thanks for all.

Love

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY.

MARCH 15

Hey there everyone!

How is it all going? I am still keeping it real here in lopez. All is well. I hope you are all good also. Mom and dad, happy aniversery. I hope it was fun and you were able to relax. Ok so I had another crazy experience at transfers this week. Transfer meeting is whackness. Ha . it’s a long story but I will try to keep it easy. So I got a new pinoy comp at the transfer meeting. I don’t even remember his name, you will kno0w why in a sec. so about 45 minutes after the transfer meeting at the mission home I found out that my brand new companion was getting sent home, hmm I have no clue why, but then I had a short little talk with president Anderson in his office and he told me that I was getting a new comp, elder liddle. Ha yes I also new this elder in the mtc. He is one batch ahead of me so he is one transfer longer in the mission than me. Ha and yes he is white too. Ha this is my third white/American comp in the field, I have only gotten one pinoy. Ha how am I suppose to learn tagalog? Ha ha jk. The Americans are fun and my tagalong is fine, it would just get better with Filipinos as my comps. But I got nothing to complain about. Elder liddle is way cool and this will be another real fun transfer. Ha. Ok so that’s that. The work has been good, its been a tad bit hectic the last few days but no worries. We have some new good investigators but not any way legit ones.last transfer was real good and might be one of the funnest of my whole mission. We worked real hard and I felt like i grew as a missionary. But Much more to work on still!I don’t got much else to say but I will tell one funny/crazy story. So last week on Tuesday night we were doing a member visit cuz elder Bernard wanted to say bye to this family, the segui family. We went ther and as we were about to start the lesson when we heard some wacko throwin a fit outside. I looked outside and there was some way drunk, fat, short pinoy throwin a tantrum. He was trying to fight some other drunk guy. This other drunk guy was trying to charge at him with a fatty “itak” (machette like big knife thingy) . ha it was crazy. So then the fat one continues his fit by throwing stuff at this house, ha. Then the pulis came. What did they do? Nothing at all. Ha what pansies, they watched the guy throw stuff at this house then left 5 minutes later. Ha. I really wanted to punch the guy, ha but I cant so we just went back inside, had our lesson and then ate some snails and jackfruit. Ha it was a fun night. So that’s my story for the week. Mom don’t worry, I am still safe, hahaha! As for pday today. We played some bball earlier and I sweated like no other then I did a bunch of wash for like 3 hrs, ha yeah fun! I will try to maybe write a letter later. Hey did you get Stanley? Hey well time is low for me. I hope you all have a friken ridonkulous week and all goes good! Keep on reading the scriptures daily and if your not you best start! Always choose the right. And just trust in the lord. I will pray like always. good luck with the moving stuff. Love you all a lot!

Peace

Love,

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

MARCH 8

Oy, oy, oy!

Kamusta kayo! Syiempre ayos lang dito sa lopez! Thanks for the on time emails this week. That is very appreciated. Ok so I will start by talking about the tsunami thingy. Well actually there isn’t much to say about that cuz I had no clue there was a tsunami and knew nothing about such a thing, haha. I am proly about a 10 minute walk fro9m the beach and I didn’t notice anything at all, so if all you guys didn’t say stuff about a tsunami I would have no idea. So obviously I am safe and fine. So ma about the weather. Its now summer so its pretty hot. I havnt seen rain in months now, its weird, ha. But its still as green as ever. Everyone has been harvesting their rice lately so we always get excuses like “nasa linang siya” ( hes in the fields) when we try to teach our investigators! lately lots of kids have been playing with “saranggola” (kites) and a group of these little kids had their kite like a bagillion feet in the air. Like no joke you couldn’t see it at all. They had it attached to some like sewing string and I pulled on this string for a good 5 minutes until we could could see the kite, ha it was awesome. Also the same day a little girl sang “I wish you a merry Christmas” to us but made here oWn lyrics and was saying “I wish you an americano” haha it was hilarious! Man the little kids here are awesome! So dad said he wanted me to tell a story each week but I don’t really ever have any good storys but I will tell you about some catholic “lola” (grandma) that we tracted last week. So we tracted this lady and she was super nice to us and friendly and talkative and then we told her we wanted to share a little message real quick, so she said ok willingly. Then as soon as we mentioned that we were “mormons” she she got real cold and wouldn’t let us teach her, ha. Haha “matigas ang ulo niya” (hard headed). She went from super nice to not even willing to shake my hand in one second, haha. Oh one little fact, the amount of dorrs I have had shut in my face= 1. Ha it was in my last area and some way old lady got up slowly off her souffa and very slooowly shut her door when we were trying to talk to here, ha that was hilarious and I was stoked to be able to say that I had finally got a door shut in my face haha. Ha ok so I had a baptism this past saterday so of course that was awesome. It was a 17 year old girl named mary ann. She is really cool and has a great testimony of the church. She will make a great member. Ha elder Bernard baptized her. It was hilarious when he dunked her in the water cuz he like slammed her into the water. Ha it was a good laugh. I felt the spirit as she bore her testimony after. Oh ma about the debit card. I don’t know what you would need to do but proly get me a new account set up and just send me a new card throught the mail. I got about 5000 spare pesos left so theres no huge hurry. Ok well the week has been good for me and am enjoying the work. We had a mission tour this week so at zone con we got to hear from elder ko of the 70. that was cool. here in lopez the adventure continues with me and elder bernard, We continue to work ourselves into the ground daily, ha jk but we do work Hard! And are have some decent progress with the investigators, not as much as we would like but its good. Its been fun. I amsorry to hear that you guys had another tough week. That’s no good but I hope it all turns around quickly. Just keep it going and I will continue to pray! I love you all very much and gratefull for everyone of you. Keep it on the upside!

Lov ya xoxo

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

FEBRUARY 28

Oy, oy, oy!

Kamusta kayo! Syiempre ayos lang dito sa lopez! Thanks for the on time emails this week. That is very appreciated. Ok so I will start by talking about the tsunami thingy. Well actually there isn’t much to say about that cuz I had no clue there was a tsunami and knew nothing about such a thing, haha. I am proly about a 10 minute walk fro9m the beach and I didn’t notice anything at all, so if all you guys didn’t say stuff about a tsunami I would have no idea. So obviously I am safe and fine. So ma about the weather. Its now summer so its pretty hot. I havnt seen rain in months now, its weird, ha. But its still as green as ever. Everyone has been harvesting their rice lately so we always get excuses like “nasa linang siya” ( hes in the fields) when we try to teach our investigators! lately lots of kids have been playing with “saranggola” (kites) and a group of these little kids had their kite like a bagillion feet in the air. Like no joke you couldn’t see it at all. They had it attached to some like sewing string and I pulled on this string for a good 5 minutes until we could could see the kite, ha it was awesome. Also the same day a little girl sang “I wish you a merry Christmas” to us but made here oWn lyrics and was saying “I wish you an americano” haha it was hilarious! Man the little kids here are awesome! So dad said he wanted me to tell a story each week but I don’t really ever have any good storys but I will tell you about some catholic “lola” (grandma) that we tracted last week. So we tracted this lady and she was super nice to us and friendly and talkative and then we told her we wanted to share a little message real quick, so she said ok willingly. Then as soon as we mentioned that we were “mormons” she she got real cold and wouldn’t let us teach her, ha. Haha “matigas ang ulo niya” (hard headed). She went from super nice to not even willing to shake my hand in one second, haha. Oh one little fact, the amount of dorrs I have had shut in my face= 1. Ha it was in my last area and some way old lady got up slowly off her souffa and very slooowly shut her door when we were trying to talk to here, ha that was hilarious and I was stoked to be able to say that I had finally got a door shut in my face haha. Ha ok so I had a baptism this past saterday so of course that was awesome. It was a 17 year old girl named mary ann. She is really cool and has a great testimony of the church. She will make a great member. Ha elder Bernard baptized her. It was hilarious when he dunked her in the water cuz he like slammed her into the water. Ha it was a good laugh. I felt the spirit as she bore her testimony after. Oh ma about the debit card. I don’t know what you would need to do but proly get me a new account set up and just send me a new card throught the mail. I got about 5000 spare pesos left so theres no huge hurry. Ok well the week has been good for me and am enjoying the work. We had a mission tour this week so at zone con we got to hear from elder ko of the 70. that was cool. here in lopez the adventure continues with me and elder bernard, We continue to work ourselves into the ground daily, ha jk but we do work Hard! And are have some decent progress with the investigators, not as much as we would like but its good. Its been fun. I amsorry to hear that you guys had another tough week. That’s no good but I hope it all turns around quickly. Just keep it going and I will continue to pray! I love you all very much and gratefull for everyone of you. Keep it on the upside! Lov ya xoxo

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

FEBRUARY 21

momma.

i just wrote austin, i hope he is fine. i think h e will be. i just hope he is obedient, h i am sure he is. i will write sky in a minute. sorry i aint gonna be able to write a long family email now. i wrote chantell, dad, austin, now you, then sky. haha. i will deffinetly pray for you all a ton. thats awesome nile is goin to luissianna. i totlly can picture him there. tellhim i said congrats and he will be a dope missionary. tell him he best write me before he leaves. tell matthew to continue to email me. sounds like you have fun on your dirtbike, you better be carefull! no concussions! ha. i miss my bike. it is gonna stink when i get back and dont have a dirtbike. ha oh well. i will just buy a street bike, haha! hey that fudge was good. if you want you can send another package and a few recent pictures wioth all the family and kids. take some pics of all you and send them. oh and whats up with those ctr rings and that braclet. well thanks ma. i love you tons. good luck this week. tell everyone i love and miss them. i will send stan the man m\back this week. did you get your bday letter? love you elder brock

hello familly.

i am very low on time! i had a good week with nothing special. it was just straight up good. even tho it was somewhat very tireing. i hope all of you are very good. keep it up. i will pray for you all hard. just want to lett all you know that... I LOVE YOUS!!!. k i have to skidaddle. sorry for the week sauce email! but i still love you. bye ingatz, ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

hey pops.

i couldnt figure out what padawan was untill my comp told me. i read it like a tagalog word so i was very confused ha. i thought it was padAwan but its really pAdawan. ha it was real funny. but truly i am your apprentice, haha. your a nerd dude, ha jk. yeah we are having some good fun working real hard! to bad this companionship will only last like 2 more weeks. man dad it sound like things arent going to well still. i thought things a few weeks ago were getting better. man, just keep on going and hold on and keep trusting in the lord like you are doing right now. keep it up. i dont really know what to tell yeah tho, cuz i dont know how to make grown up decisions, ha. i barly can make missionary decisions ha, and thats easy! i am conused with what you will do with my truck? thats a bummer about pam. the olympics sound awesome! sean white is so astig! ok well i gots to roll. i proly wont write a big family email cuz i had to change to the m\new lds email thing and i wrote chantell and proly mom now too. my new email is brock.perry@myldsmail.net , nbut if you send it to the old one it will still get to me. byebye master. keep it going. i pray. elder perry

hello showandtell.

hows you be? i bes good here in lopez. me and my comp have lots of fun its great to have a cool comp and makes the mission way better. my first comps blew, ha. that is dool you are reading the book of mormon that much! where are you at now? i have only gotten to like alma since being in the feild, but i did read it once in the mtc. but man i am so frickien busy studing other stuff tht i dont have the luxery of just reading from the bom a whole lot. thats dope about the xgames. sean white is dope azzz! hes got heeps of sweetness tricks. he is deff gnarly! i am missin out on good stuff, oh well i dont care. so what you goin home for? oh i sent you a letter last week so look for that. i sent cody one too. i sorta answered some of tlast emaills questions in the letter. oh hook me up with sky email. mom still hasnt. i didnt get emails from mom ort dad this week. oh my email is now brock.perry@myldsmail.net. (the only change is the period between brock and perry.) hey sorry i dont have time to do pics right now. my bad. thats bummer you didnt get to board yet. coolness you went on a good date, hows that working out? oh lots of missionaries tell me they want to date you when they get back, haha. 2 of the ap's( assistant to president.) i gave them permission, ha. thats weird that so many girsl are all getting married. especially ones that arent really good looking ha. whos brean marrying, that computer nerd? ha. ok well i gots to be rollin. tell my buddies to write me. tell paulo i say heloo and that a letter is on the way to him. txt him. love yeah, thks for the support. outie!

ingatz

elder perry

FEBRUARY 14

Hey there family.

Its elder perry again. How is it all going with yous? Its going good for me! Happy valintines day! I hope you all had a kickin valintines day, mine was legit, ha! Hey so thanks for the package, I got it super quick. It only took like 2 weeks maybe at the most. Thanks bunches! IO really am enjoying it all. I like the photo album the best. But you should send me some like recent pics too some time and I will add those to the album. Thanks for the fudge ma, its bomb! Oh and “Stanley” I have already gotten a few cool pics with him, we were chillin at a waterfall earlier today and he has been working with us the last few days, ha. He is a little missionary. When should I send Him back? Thanks for everything in it, its all good, you piced out like all my favorite candies too. And of course the letters. Oh and I got drawings from bray and rylie a few weeks ago, tell them Salamat! Oh but on one of the letters said something about CTR rings and a white bracelet but those weren’t in there so I figured you forgot to add them in or something. Send them cuz I could give those away.

Ok so now to the work. Its been real good this week. Dad is right, we have been bustin!, here in lopez. We had a way fun week and work our buts off. This was deffinetly my most productive week so for as in the amount of work we did and our numbers were pretty high but still can get much better. We taught quite a bit. And the last few day we have been finding some way kool investigators. Like almost everyone we have been talking too has a pretty good interest or seems like they have been prepared in some way. Its kool to see what the lord can do with the work when he gets an obedient hard working companionship, Even if they got some pretty jacked tagalog, ha. Its still hard to get a lot off our investigators to come to church tho. It’s a pain in the butt. The church here in lopez is like a 10 min trike ride away and a lot of people aren’t wanting to pay for that, they are poor, ha. That’s sorta a little “hadlang” (obstacle) for us right now. But we will figure that out. We worked with one of our aps on Saturday and he says that our tagalog is way good for how young we still are in the mission and that we are doing way good, but I don’t believe him, haha. Ok so its been a pretty good week. But I am running out of stuff to bore yous with. I will get going. Thanks agin for all the support and the sweet package. I will try to write you some letters later. Tell everyone I say hello. Love you all and I hope all is going well!

Byebye, love,

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY