Hello people.

How is it all going? Sounds like things are just alright. I hope so! Things for me have been good. It was a good week and we were pretty busy. Its been fun working with one of my buds from the mtc. Its been a lot of work tho cuz I got to speak like way more and just more responsibility now that we are two newbs as a companionship. Its way cool tho and we are having a bunch of fun but are doing some bomb work at the same time! Its funny when you got two Americans as comps and you gotta try your best to know tagalog. Its good tho, are tagalog is alright and aint slowin us down. I have been pretty beat tho this last week, by the time we get home I just want to go to bed, ha. Sige so about my new area and stuff here in Lopez 1st ward. Its been sorta weird in a way different area and enviorment. I am in an apartment with 5 other elders an\d itrs tiny, ha. Most of them are American so I hear and speak more English then I would like too buts its good. My area is A lot different them my last cuz its lmore city and my last area was just a bayan. Its cool tho here in lopez and it is more mountainy and theres even more palm trees than myt last area, ha. Its been way hot here tho. Its like the start of summer and this is one of the hottest areas in the mission I heard. We balled it up this morning and was drenched in sweat, ha! (b-ball). No worries tho, I don’t mind. The ward here is greatr and muh bigger. We meat in a stake center so its even got aircon in the sacrament rooM. The building is much bigger than in pila. The members are super cool and much more. Right now we got a good amount of investigators. Theres proly about 9 feel good about and hopefully they will all have baptismal dates by the end of the week. We got 5 investigators with dates right now. The work is good. Ok so that’s whats up!

Thanks for the emails ma and pa. tell blue gma and gpa I say hello and miss them tell grandma I just got here letter and will reply soon. Tell her Its hard for me to read here cursive, ha. That good dad got a job. Even if its not the cooLest it wILL help. Mom nothing happended to me, I am still safe. Maybe it was because I was asorta a tiny bit sick last week. I don’t know but I am fine. Yeah I remember all the trouble we used to get in. that was sooo fun. You don’t even know the half of it, hahaha! I bought the dope vans off the internet on the vans websight, oh and they had them at nordstrums. Mopm I heard you got a dirt bike, way cool. Are you totally shreddin? Hey tell Paulo thanks for the letter. And to keep wrighting me. Hey I need skylars email address, I havnt heard from him in ages. Oh tRy emailing me like earlier on Sundays so I can check my email on Monday mornings. Its like 15 hr difference. Okie dokkie I gots to get on outa here. I hope all goes well with all. Keep it up and shred on. I continue to pray FOR YOU. Please pray for my tagalong skillzzz to get super ridonkulously amazingly good. That would be helpful. I know you do anyway. Ok well I have nothing else. LOVVE YOUS> happy valintines day? Ma, did you get my letter? peaze bustas

love,

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

FINALLY GOT TRANSFERED

FAMILY,

WoW, I will start this email by letting you know that I am still in quite a bit of shock from what happened at transfers, haha. Man it is sorta hard to comprehend, ha. K well anyway, I got transferred on Friday. I am now about 6 hrs away from the mission home in my 2nd area in Lopez, Quezon. Its like the farthest area away from the misson home except for the islands. Hey but that’s not even the crazy part. My new companion is Elder Bernard, (this is the crazy part), yeah he is from my batch. We were in the same class in the mtc and came here to the philippines together. That means we have both only been here for just over 4 months in the field. How weird is that. He is still in his first area and we are co junior companions. Hmmm well you might be thinking that could be a problem cuz we both know very little tagalog , yeah your right! Haha, I cant believe it, president Anderson is crazy, but sooo smart at the same time! Haha. I Cnt even explain how shocked we both have been, but I am soo STOKED at the same time. We are so similar in many ways, especially the way we think about missionary work and the way we are her to serve the Lord and be the best missionaries we can be. We were both close in the mtc and always talked how it would be way cool to be comps in the field, but who knew it would be so soon,ha! Man things have changed a ton for me and I have had a bunch of fun the last two days. MY new are is way tight too, there were over 80 members at church yesterday, (compared to like 30 last wk in pila), the members are way nice and the bishop is legit. Are teaching has actually been pretty darn good the last two days and we should be fine( as long as you guys pray super hard for us!!!). We already have 4 baptismal dates that we just gave away last night. ( that’s more than I had all last transfer in pila). This is gonna be challenge in many ways but its gonna be so fun at the same time. (((This is Elder Bernard and I love your son and or brother. He is pretty much like the coolest person ever and we are going to rock this bayan))) WE are both so ecxited to do some serious work here in lopez. We are gonna make this time that we have together count and DO WORK! ( it will most likely only last one transferr) This is gonna be an EPIC journey in the service of the lord! I am seriouslu7 soo gratefull for this opportunity to work side by side with my man elder Bernard, we will tear this place apart.

As for you guys, thanks for all your emails, prayers and all you do. I am glad to hear good things from your emails this week. It seems like you have had some real answers to prayers and things are turning aroung a bit. Things feal that way for me too this week. I have felt a huge difference in my mission the last few days. Continue to do what you are doing and make decisions with the lord and rely on him. I will continue to pray for you all like super hard. Me and elder need prayers too. We are up to a big task and we both feal so young in the mission still, but we are truly looking to be very succesfull with the help of the lord. I looked forward to the packages. Momma, happy birthday, I hope it was great andi hope you get your letter I sent you soon. Please try to email me sooner so I can check my emails in the morning here. Hey well I love you all a ton and hope ypou all know that. Good luck with all, and keep it real. I gots to go. The epic journey has begun.

Peace. Xoxo

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

FAMILY,

Hello again. How are all of you? What is new? I am doing good! But not much new for me. Same old stuff. Its fun tho. Actually this week was a tiny different cuz one of the areas right next to my area got closed down in the middle of transfers and the elders there got pulled out. The area had just reopened last transfer after being closed for over like 8 years. There was some safety problems nxt to the elders apartment so as soon as president found out he pulled the elders out. So anyway we have had to pick up the work there again so we have been pretty busy! They had 3 investigators with baptismal dates so we have picked those up and continue with them so we are swamped now. Ha its good tho, to bad the other elders got pulled out, the were doing work ovewr there. So as for pila we gstill only got one investigator with a baptism date. Its been hard to get most our investigaters to progress this whole transfer. We still got to step it up! Ha. So the girl that has the baptismal date for the 31 of jan. its a weird situation cuz we have to get her and her husband “lagally” married before her baptism so that’s sorta in the way but she is very rteady for baptism. That’s probably the biggest problem here in the pilipinas. Marriage situations. Its kinda lame. The pilipinas is the only country in the world where divorce is ilegall. Sayang, it causes a lot of problems with progressing investigators. So today we just get it today and ran some errands and chores and I wrote mom a birthday letter. I was planning on writing a bunch of lettrers but just not enough time, ha. So I am sending that letter and some pics on a cd this week. Hoy! I forgot to tell grandma thanks for the package last week! Thanks grandma! The goodies were delicious! You hooked me up! Oh and the American money, ha. Havnet seen that stuff for a while. Just colorfull Pilipino pesos! Swo grandma I sent you a letter finally last week so look for that in a week or two. Mom and brayden thanks for the emails! Sorry for never emailing you a personal email. I enjoy your emails and wish I could spend more time answering your questions. Ok so mom a few I deas for the package. Something I really want and need. A small little leatherman folding type pocket knife with PLIERS on it. Theres proly one lying around the house. Some cool postcard like jesus pictures from like deseret book, by simon dewey due and greg olsen. I want to put them on my walls. (oh before I forget, whats skylars email address? I havnt heard from him in ages)(oh and tell regan I wrote her a long time ago and am still waiting for a reply_ so there will be no letters till I get a response, ha, no joke) so next on the list, beef jerky! Man I love that stuff! And last thing that always makes me happy,,, food! Just any snack or junck food, and candy. I really cant think of anything else. Ok well time is low. Thanks for all you have done, and do for me. Keep up the good work over there. Keep on praying and trust in the lord. It sounds to me like you are doing the right things. Keep on goin. Thanks for the prayers. I keep you in mine4. be safe, I am(mom)! good luck with ALL!!!! Lots of love!

Xoxo

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hello everyone. Its me again. Not much new for me here in pila. How have you been? I am aight. So new years was crazy here. I have never seen so many fireworks in my life. On new years eve I w3ent to bed at like 10:30 but was quickly awackend by a storm of explosions at 11;30. it was insane. By 12 midnight it was going OFF, no joke. It was like friggen world war 3! Every direction I looked there were fireworkd exploding in the air. It was soo kool! Cody would have loved it. It was so loud. It was like every one had their on real fireworks. Ha it was hard to get back to sleep. Ok so that’s that. I really don’t have much to say this email. Oh I got your package but not grandmas yet. Thanks a ton. It was awesome! I will proly get hers this week. I am enjoyiong everything you all gave me, thanks. I thought there was gonna be a picture album tho, ha and no letters from mom ans\d dad, but I figure thase will come in the nxt package. Ok so thanks for the package. Oh I gave a couple of those hair thingies to that girl from my picture and her older sister rhika mae(one of my converts) they really were excited and liked them. Oh mom I liked the family Christmas pic you uploaded. I tried to print it but couldn’t. next package send some pictures from like Christmas and stuff, and up to date photos. That would be kool so I cab\n see changes. Man I wish I could tell you guys some super sweet missionary stories or kool spiritual stuff but I just haven’t had any super kool experiences yet. The mission is a little weird for me, I cant explain it, its like I am in some weird funk. So the work lately has been a little bit slower but its all good. I am not sure if I will see another baptism here in pila. I guess it depends on how much longer I am here, haha! Hmmm so nothing else really. Sorry for leaving you hanging with the email this week. I hope all is get better and you have a good week thiSweek. Love you all. Tell the kids I say hi.

Xoxox Love.

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

CHRISTMAS

Hey hey hey, hohoho.

Chrismas was good for me cuz I was able to talk to you all. It was good to hear all your voices again. I hope your guyses Christmas was just straight up ridonkulous kahit konteng pera, haha. I wish I could of called you Christmas night too to see what you all got from santa and to see how they day went. Next year I think I will do that. Time flew by way to quick talking to you guys. We almost talked for 3 hrs but it felt like 30 minutes, theres just way to much to catch up on after 5 months, huh. For mothers day I think I will take more adventage of the 0 time limit cuz a lot of other missionaries talke a lot longer than me, ha oh well it was enough. Oh and sorry I wasn’t able to email on Christmas, we were busy like always, ha. So fter I talked to you on Christmas we had the branch Christmas party which was sorta boring, then we had an appointment at a members house at night. I was planning on working more at night but time went by way to quick. Christmas eve was a real good day for me and was a lot of fun. We worked hard and I tied all our lessons into the Christmas story and shared the first presidency Christmas message from the friend. It was fun and the whole week was funner cuz I used Christmas in everything when we talked to people and tied everything into Christmas which made it funner and not the same old stuff. Swithed it up. I had a way kool experience on Christmas eve on or last visit. I don’t have time to explain it but I was able to have a Real Christmas experience and truly help someone in need. It was kool cuz the lord really put me where he wanted me to be and helped one of his children through me. It was awesome cuz the spirit told me what I needed to do and I knew that I was an instrument in the lords hand. Lets just say that it was kool. Maybe next week I will give more details if you want. So the Christmas season was not the same for me this year and it didn’t really feel like Christmas no matter how hard I tried but still I was able to enjoy it in a different way and kahit walang pamilya. So it sounds like you all had a good Christmas from chantell and moms email. I am sure you did, how could you not, Christmas is the best! Hey BRAYDEN, dude, my main man, lil bro, lil G, Happy Birthday! Ha I don’t even know how old you are, I think 7, but I hope you hve a straight dopage b-day! Keep it real for me and have fun. Sige so yesterday I was able to baptize an awesome 18 year old girl named Annie. She is awesome andi really enjoyed teaching her and seeing her desire to join the true church grow with every visit. She is already talking about serving a mission. Saweet! Today we had a decent pday. I got to play a little bball for the first time since a while. And in the process I got some fatty blisters on the bottom of my feet and one of them tore open, haha! I am bone head cuz I was ballin bare foot, cuz my flip flops tore the other day( I hope you sent some news ones in the package). But its no big deal it will just be a pain to walk tomarrow ha. Oh and by the way I will proly get the packages on Wednesday at zone interviews. Ok well I gots to get going. It was great talking to you. Masaganang bagong taon. Happy new year, set some sweet new gaols for the new year. I hope all goes weel in your lives. Stay safe. Love you all. Party on.

Xoxoxo

Love,

ELDERBROCKWILLIAMPERRY

hey. ok so i didnt know this till like 2 days ago but it is not p-day for us today. our pday is only on christmas. i thought we got pday today and then christmas off too but i guess i was in a really deep dream, not a chance! HA. so this is just a quick email to you guys to let you know how i will call you, even tho i still aint sure. so i really am not sure how we are suppose to do it cuz nobody ever told us and nobody i ask seems to have a clue. so i went to buy a calling card earlier today but the peaple are sorta retarrted so they dont even know how the calling cards work. ha. but i will figure it out. so i am gonna go over to a members house chrictmas morning at around 9 am(so i think 6 pm christmas eve for you) and just use their cell phone or land line. i am gonna try to get like 2 hr worth of calling cards. so i will call you around 9:30 am christmas morning and 6:30 pm christmas eve for you all. i hope that is alright and doesnt mess up with your christmas eve schedule. i was gonna do it the way dad said but i really didnt have time to go buy a phone, and they cost like 600 peso which isnt really a whole lot in american but i didnt have time. chantell i got your packages and they are sitting under my tree, i am waiting till christmas. thanks. i might get the family package but who knows, if not its no big dael. i hope you guys get mine soon. i sent 2. so if you dont get a call right away it proly means my comp is making us late again. or the way i was trying didnt work. but i will get a hold of you sooner or later so just be ready. i am not sure if i know my debit card # anymore so if you could let me know that when i call, that would be good but i got plenty of mony so i dont really need to withdraw any out of my account. be ready to ask me questiond on christmas eve. i am way stoked to talk to you all. i hope you all have a really good christmas week and enjoy the christmas season. be happy and joyfull, its CHRISTMaS! i miss you all and love yah tons. have fun. maligayang pasko and masaganang bagong taon! heres 2 good scrips. D&C 24:8 and Alma 34:40-41

xoxoxo

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Hoy! How you all doing? I am good. Happy thanksgiving. They don’t celebrate that here so it will be a regular work day for me. But its all good. I will still be thankfull, ha. I have been blessed a lot, I know that. Especially with such an awesome FAMILY. And with this opportunity to be serving a mission here in the Philippines, even getting pounded by tagalog is a blessing, haha. So my tagalog is aight. Not really tho, but i can teach alright at this point and that’s the most important part, As long as the spirit kicks in, ha. Thanks for all the prayers. Continue to pray for me tho. Especially with the wika(language). So new reguest with pasko(christmas) package. Some jesus stickers so I can put them on letters to you guys so the letters don’t get jacked. And a book The Pocket Reference Book For Missionaries by Adrian parker call jr. I gave mine away to one of my new converts. Maybe 2 of them cuz my comp wants one too.

Ok but that stuff don’t matter. So this week was pretty good. I continue to get flustered and a bit frustrated sometimes but I am really trying to work on my patience, faith, and hope. Those emails frome you three helped a bunch and I read them several times each day if I start to get down and they always bring me back up. We continued to teach the first lesson a lot. I had my third baptism on satuday. So that was great. His name is Erwin and he is a stud. He will continue to be a real strong member! He easily gave up alchohal to be baptized so it was cool to see him willingly make the change. Everything just made sense to him and he new the church was true from the beginning. We don’t have any baptism dates right now tho cuz its hard to get everyone to come to church. But we are finding a lot of good people. K so now I will try to answer questions from each letter.

MOM- thanks for all the info on whats going on. So like you’ve been busy. Thanks for the prayers. Tell grandma I say hello and I miss her too. Tell cody he doesn’t need a girlfriend! Tell rylie I miss her MORE! Tell haley she needs to better in school. Tell chantell thanks for updating my blog. That flower business thing sounds cool, that’s cool you and haley are doing that.good luck with the interview at rolfs( how friggen gay is that guy. ha) by the way theres so many faggets here in the pilipines. They are called bakla or bading. Its sickkk(gross). I get quizzie! Oh I really liked the last sentence of your email. Ok love ya ma. DAD- so I am sure my language is getting beter but its hard for me to see it, ha. We got a decent amount of investigators right now, I aint sure the #, but weve done a lot of finding recently. I relly am looking for those real investigators right now who are truly ready, I really want to find more families. But we teach everyone who is willing to liten. We don’t tracted a ton cuz we usually have a lot of appointments but we have trated more the last two weeks. We take jeepnies and trikes when we have to go far, but we mostly walk. I will have to take some pics them. Its crazy the driving here. Ha. The only people that have car here are the aps. Thanks for the sports updates, sound like the suns are doin good. awesome. Any newbies there? Hats the starting roster? That cool you got intervied. I hope you can work everythingout with your business but maybe new windows will open up. I know everthing will work out. I continue to pray and am planning on fasting tomorrow for your situation with the pt board. I aprreiate all your advice. Tell BRAYDEN I say hello and I am sending a pilipines flag in the Christmas present. I havnt seen any monkeys yet darn.. miss ya a ton. CHANELL- sup. I don’t have any baptisms comin up yet but I had one on sat. I don’t need anything for Christmas, I know you are poor. I don’t know what friggen kind of hair wax. Just hair wax krap. Ha. Ask jobro. That’s awesome you have lost so much weight, you need to send me some pics of all three of you who have lost weight. Thanks for the support and emails. Oh chantell and haley I hear a new miley cyrus song, it actually sounded sorta kool, ha something about the usa. Cody I want you to make me a playlist of like the coolest songs that come out while I am gone, ha. But not the miley cirus ones, haha. Ok well I gots to rapp up this email. I am very thankfull for all of you and how aesome you all are. Thanks for all the support and encouragement. I hope everything falls into place. Love you all a ton. Gots to roll out. Oh yeah, MA, I am safe  ha . peace

xoxoxoxox

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

Pictures from the last part of MTC and Philippines

Sup tropa pits (my crew). Hows it all doing. Its all good over here in paradise. Ha you guys are all really missing out on all the beauty over here. Ha suckers, maybe someday! Crud I aint got a whole lot to talk about. It was a good week. My new comp is way good! I am feeling much better. And thanks for the emails of comfort, ma pa and tell. They were very encouraging. Ha ma that poem is hilarious. I don’t want everyone to think I am in misery tho, haha . I am kool. if they want to write me they will write, if not that’s aight too. Ha thanks for the help with that tho. Ha I don’t have a whole lot of time to write back tho. Thanks for the email ma, I realy enjoyed it. Frick dad that’s crazy you have lost 35 lbs. is that even healthy, ha joke. That’s crazy, you must be a twigg. Send me a pick! Ma how much have yo lost now? And tell? Dad thanks for the email too, it was good. Tell me more sories about your mission if you want, I would like to hear what it was like. I wonder a lot how much different each mission is in the world. Ok so now I will give you guys a Christmas ist. But to tell yah the truth I don’t need anything. These are just some things I thought of this last week.

-a few ties. (maybe one to go with my brown pants.) (I have aton already but I would like to start giving some away to people here)

-maybe some cologne

-a friggen yoyo (preferably a bumble bee) I want to become a yoyo nerd, haha

-some good zebra pens, with refills (I cant find good pens here)

-some flipflop thongs (just cheap rubber ones, for like shower and around th appt) ha they don’t have bigg enough size for me here, haha

-voice recorder maybe( I ant to use it to practice my accent, and I thought we could send eachother tapes back and forth)

-some gangsta bandanas( for sweat rags)

-a upper retainer if possible, from bro frost.( idont know if he still hass my mold tho). (mine busted in the mtc, remember?)

-maybe a new cheap electric toothbrush, (mine is dying)

-oh some hair wax stuff. (jobro(Jordan brown) sent me some in the mtc and it works way better than gel her in the humidity, so chantell you can take care of that one)

-maybe some beef jerky and sunkis gummies, ha.

-maybe some stupid toys

-MAYBE NOTHING AT ALL! Ha

Ha I really don’t need anything , don’t feel the need to send me any of this stuff. You asked so I came up with some random stuff. Oh ma I came up with a lil list for studying the scrips for you real kuick.

Better Understanding The Very Confusing Scriptures (by Elder Perry, so very inaccurate,ha)

-pray for holy ghost ( the scrips were writin by inspiration so you need the hg in order to better understand.)

-read the chapter headings

-slow done and really ponder as you read.

-liken the stories to your own life.

-visualize what is happening( this will help you remember)

-ponder again after you read.

-reread, haha

So that’s all I could think of. I hope it helps. Ok so now I will talk a bit about the work here in pila. I really enjoy my new comp. he is straight up Pilipino and so quite and doesn’t speak inglish, ha so I am really enjoying working with him. He is a hard worker too so that’s awesome! Complete opposite than my last comp. we did a ton of finding this last week so we taught the 1st lesson a ton. I feel pretty comfortable teaching that now. Just not the way I want to be able to fully expand on it yet. Nothing really great happened, just the same old missionary work. We got an awesome investigator whose baptism is this Saturday so I am way excited for him. His is the one that got postponed a few weeks ago but he is so ready and he is legit. His name is Erwin and he is 21. So he will be the third for me. I really want to send you some pics of my last baptisms but I wont have time today. Maybe nxt week. I am gonna try to put some stuff together for a lil Christmas package for you guys. Anything you guys want? Ha. So anything you guys need for me? I continue to pray for you guys and be obedient in order to help bless you guys but that’s about all I can do for you. Ha. K just know all is well with me and I appreciate all your prayers, I know they help. You guys rock. Oh shout out to my ate( older sis) chantell, Maligayang Kaarawan! HAPPY BDAY. K shout out to all the kids too. Hello! Love you all. Keep on rockin and CTR like always. Love ya. Xoxo

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

Tell My Friends to Write Me, They Know Who They Are

Sup sup sup! Hows it all going in az?

Ok so I aint gonna lie, its been a tough last few days. I cant explain it, its weird. Its true tho, the mission definetly has ups and downs. But I am perfectly fine, haha. Just a rough patch. So I have figured out that the hardest part is becaming that missionary I see myself being, and the missionary I am needed to be, and the one I expect to be. My desire is so strong, but it takes a lot of work to get there and I gues it talks time. The learning curve is steep when your trying to be that missionary in a different language, ha. I just really care a lot about this work and when you care, I have found out, that makes it hard. If you really care about this work and about becoming the best missionary you can be, its gonna be hard. Ok so theres my little speil. soabout this past week. I got a new comp on Friday at transfers, so I am stoked about that. His name is elder estacio. He is a Filipino from upper Luzon. He is real cool and a hard worker so I am really happy to have a completely opposite companion. I have barely heard him speak inglish. I still aint sure if he knows it, haha. But if I say something to him in inglish he seems to understand, ha. So I am pretty sure my tagalong will get a lot better this transfer. A lot of the time I cant understand him tho. Mostly just because he talks freakin super quite, its sorta annoying but it will help me work on my patience and my listening skills. I am way ecxited to be working with him. I am sorta gonna consider him my real trainer cuz my other one wasn’t the best. He was pasaway. Ok so what else… idont know. So pday today has been boring. Usually we have zone activities but not today. We cleaned the apartment this morning.

Oh frick, thanks for the letters. I got the package at transfers. Thanks everyone. I enjoyed reading them all and loved the pictures. Send me more, haha. Oh I got one form regan and blue grndama too. Tell them I will send them letters one I get time, after I get time to write yours first. I still haven’t heard from many of my friends so tell them it would be nice to hear from them, ha. They know who they are, haha. Tell all my friends I say hi. All else i can say is that I miss you guys a whole lot. It sorta hit me this last week how much I really miss being with my family. Sometimes it can get lonely here especially when your th only white guy around and that barely knows tagalong, haha. Ok so I best be rolling, time is low, I got 3 appointments letter tonight. That’s a first for me on pday, ha Yes! Sorry for the lame email. I love you all tons. Hope you have an awesome week. I continue to pray hard.

Xoxo

ELDERBROCKWILLIAMPERRY

Hey,

Sorry I didn’t email on time this week. We had no tyime on p-day so we are doing it now. So tthis is my language sudy for the day ha. So whats cracking back at the pad? Soumds like you all had a fun week and a good Halloween. I want tio know what you all dressed up as. That’s cool you won the contest mom, ha too bad for haley ha. Ok so I sent you a package like a week and a half ago with some letters and a cd with pics on it. I bet you wont get it for at least another week. I ahvent gotten your letters yet. I am hoping I get them at transfers this Friday! Was it a package or just letters and when didyou send it? Ok so last week was good. I got my first baptisms onh Sunday. Woohoo. It was awesome. We had 3 scheduled but one of them we had to postpone for 3 more weeks cuz he drank a few weeks ago. But I am glad that he told the zl in th interview, it just shows that he is for real about getting baptized and wants to do it the right way. His name is Erwin and he is 21. I feel real good that everything will work out fior him. So the tw0 that were baptized were Charles (40somthin) and rhika mae(11). They both are real good converts. I baptized Rhikamae and elder etcitty, charles. It was so cool. It was awesome to hear both their testimonies after the baptism. Rhika maes was short but you could really tell that she has a real testimony of the truth of this gospel. Charles is gonna be a super strong member and he has truly been prepared by the lord and just knows its true. Even with opposition from friends and giving up coffee( which is hard here) he was so willing, cuz he knows its true. So that was a great experience sunday, and I am excited to have many more like that.

So aobut Halloween. Its way different her. Its like for 3 days and its called All Souls Day, I think. They have these crazy wack cemitaries here that are all above the groung and are sorta like their on memorial set up thing. And during the Halloween weekend everyone visits their desieced relative at night with laods of candles. So onbt Saturday andf Sunday wer had curfews at 6pm. I wore that star wars tie from bro holt on Halloween, it was saweet! Ha . oh and I got to go on splits with th zl on Saturday. Its fun to go on splits. Everytime I am on splits I feel like I am a better missionary. Ha the lessons are different when you are teaching with someone that is trying hard to be a good missionary. So splits were real good and we had some good lessonsw. So I have really been hopimg that elder etcitty would be tranfered this week and I would get a new comp but than yesterday we found out that he wasn’t. so I was a bit disappointed… but then he came up with some weird story cuz he really wanted to get tranfered and he enderd up talking to the AP’s so now he is getting transfgerred. Ha it’s a long story, and the only important part is that he is getting transferred. Ha so I am glad about that. He was a fun comp but just the kind of missionary I want to be companions for 6 more weeks. So I am looking forward to tranfers on fri and am hoping for the best. I and it think I might get some letters from you at tranfers too. So that’s the news here and icontinue to do my best and trying hard to improve in tagalog. Oh and there was a bad bagio this week. But I am safe and nothing bad happened so don’t worry about it. K so continue to email and write me. I miss you guys and hope you are doing good. Love you all. Tell the kids I say “sup foo” love ya ma. And everyone else too. Gotsa roll. Peace.

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

So no super sweet news this week! thanks for the email dad and cody. the email might not be as long cuz i dont have any questions from you guys to respond to, but i will try to make it good. so once again i am emailing you late cuz we had an activity at the stake center. its like 930 pm here and i should be back to my appt by now, oops. but i figure i better email so we dont have any problems, ha mom. hmmm so i went on splits for half a day this past week. it was fun. me and the other elder are both brand new missionaries but we got done some mad work together. we got more work done in 3 hrs together than i usually do in a dhole day, ha. it was real cool. i really hope i get a pilipino comp at transfers in less than 2 weeks. and i hope for a comp that is a hard worker5! we also had zone conference this past week. we had it done at the san pablo stake center which is about 1 hr away. it was goods stuff. pres anderson is way cool, and had some good stuff to say. oh i sent you guys that little package. bhut i wasnt able to send it till friday tho, my bad. so there are some letters in that and a cd with photos on it. the post office said it would take 6 days to get to you, but that is bull. you will probably get it in a few weeks if your lucky. oh tell sis maxwell thanks for me, i got a small package from her this past week. she said jackson sent in his papers, thats dope. lemme know where he is headed. frick, i dont know what else. oh crap... mom i am still safe haha. almost frogot that important detaqil :) oh earlier today one of our investigators got married! his wife is a member and they got married in order for him to be babtized. cool, eh? so his baptism is this sunday. we also have a 21 yr old lalaki getting babptized on sunday, named erwin, he is a studd. and one more. a 11 yr old girl named rikha mae. she is awesome too. oh and the first guy is named charles. so i should have my first three baptisms this week so i am way stoked and looking forward to that. i hope every rolls smoothly this week. ok my time is running low. so love ya all. hope all continues to be well and everything is getting good. my language is getting better.... so slowly, hahaha. good luck with the next weeki. i continue to pray for you. remember how much i love and miss you all. lata! love ya mom, hope you feel better.

LOve,

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

I'm 100% Healthy so far!

Hey hey hey! Hows it kickin? It was a good week. Got some good work done. I am glad to hear that you were pleased with the email last week. Ha. This one might not be quite as long the. We’ll see. Ok so mom just so you know, I am still safe. Haha, obviously cuz I am typing this. Nothing bad happened this week. No storm so don’t worry. But there was a black out earlier so a lot of electricity went out but that is normal. Oh and by the way it wasn’t a river that I was walking through with the floating dead dogs. It was the street and the water was up to my chest. But that was 3 weeks ago and it was in santa cruz, not my area.

This week was good. Last pday we went to taytay falls and they were way cool. I think I sent a pic. The week went by way fast. We had interviews with president Anderson and that was real good. That guy is awesome and so fun. His wife is way nice too. We had some good work and we have 3 real great investers scheduled to be baptized on Halloween. I am real excited for that. We have a few other cooll progressing investigators too. I wish we had more but we had 0 investigators when I got here. Is real good when you get investigators who just understand this gospel. I got to give a few blessing this week to members wich was good stuff. We finally watched conference on Sunday but only two sessions. The sat. morn and sun. morn. I don’t know why like that but it was real good conference, at least what I saw. Today we didn’t really do anything exciting today. Just some errands, chores and hung out and played some games with the zone in santa cruz. My comp is cool and fun but isn’t the best at training, haha. He doesn’t really hel p with the language and I try to get him to speak tagalong lang to me but he only speak ingles which is probably one reason I aint as good in the language yet, cuz I don’t speak it as much as I should. Tracting is fun when you find a good area, some palces we go it just doesn’t feel right and then other places people get it better. But we don’t tract all that much. Only when we get pun ted from appointments. We are usually too busy to tract which is very good. But I wish we could tract more. Its fun to just get to know people and open them up to the gospel.

I don’t have a mission mom so I don’t know what she is talking about. Our apartment is upstairs. Its pretty decent. I have felt 100 percent healthy. I havnt been sick at all yet. I hope it stays that way. The people here are super nice. they all want to talk to me and I like to have fun with them and try to talk to them if they yell something out to me. Yes thay are short. I tower over them. Ha. They all love to see me dunk it. They are in awww when they see me slam it. Sounds like you all had a goodweek. Thanks chantell for the blog. I cant look at it tho. Bawal. Jk I cant but I did anyway earlier. Just this once tho. I am stoked for the package. I will proly get it at transfers on nov 6 cuz that’s when we go to the mission home and they don’t send the packages strasight to us. I think the best way to send stuff is through like fed ex or us postal service. So I spent a lot of time this morning writing you all letters so I will send those this week along with a disk with my pictures. I hope you will get them. I am bummed I missed out on all the fun this week but its all good, I proly had almost as much fun as you guys, ha.

Ok well thanks you all who emailed me today, and all that didn’t, its all good. Tell my friends to write me a letter if they got time. Kids, what are you all gonna be for Halloween? Lemme know. I am gonna be baptizing some people hopefully, ha. Ok well I hope all is well. I love you bunches. Sorry for the horrible spelling, I am getting bad since I starting learning tagalog. And I try to type fast, so I hope you can understand. Maybe it will be a fun riddle for you to try to figure out what i am saying. Haha. K I gots to go now. Its late. Love all. Thanks fo everthing. Xoxoxoxo

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY

Brocks 3rd letter from the Philippines

Family!

How is the life? The mission life is legit! But very crazy, ha. Ok so mom sorry for such short emails. last week my long email got deleted , I swear> ha. And I haven’t emailed any friends s all my email time(1hr) is spent on the family! Oh and remember that I suck at typing so I am super sloooow! Ha but I will try to do better cfrom now on. Its hard tho cuz I don’t ever know what to say and I forget everything that happened during the week. But its good when you send me questions, so I will answer all those first. Ok so about the storm thingy. All it is is like a frickin bad monsoon storm,.. without lighting! I promise you that its not even bad. It happened like my 3rd day in the field. I don’t know what you’ve been hearing from the news and all but it wasn’t even bad! So don’t worry, the only effect I have seen is peoples houses have been flooded so there are lots of people living at the churches and we do a lot of service for them there. So take a friggen chill pill and don’t worry about it . I am fine and WILL be fine, promise! Ha  I haven’t heard of any missing people, remember I am a missionary so you probably knbow more about this storm then I do, ha. And I sleep in my appt in pila, luguna. Its on the 2nd floor so even if my are got flooded I would still have a place to stay. It rains quite a bit but the hard rain was the first week. On Friday it was real hot an humid and sunny. Its real sticky and constantly sweaty. My shirts get pretty soaked durng the day. But I don’t thinks its super hot, I don’t mind it! I would say it feels hotter in mesa in august when it’s a 115 and your wearing football gear, ha. Cody knows what I mean, hah! Ok so next questions…. I don’t think I have lost any weight. I doubt I will lose a whole lot. I think I am at a steady weight right now. I didn’t even change weight in th mtc. So I am probably like a buck83 still. I don’t eat as much as I would like but when I do make my own food its like pbj or toppraman type stuff. Or rice or eggs or oatmeal, or whatever I can find, ha. I make it easy tho, ya know, cuz I am lazy! Ha. But we eat at members or even investigators sometimes or at the church with all the refugees. The food is pretty delicious here. I like it. I will eat whatever they give me. Its all good when your hungry.. and I am constatly hungry, haha. Is it pretty here? Haha heck yeah! Its like Hawaii on some steroids! And it’s a bit more ghetto, ha but it rocks here. You all are missin out! It is laoded with palm trees everywhere. We wen to some waterfalls earlier today and it blows the ones we saw in Hawaii out of the water! I haven’t seen any crime, the people are way cool and nice. The are super nice to me and always want to talk. The little kids never leave me alone. Some people call Americans joe so I get “hey joe” a lot. And everyone always asks, “ano ang Height mo?” (whats your height?) people are awesome here. Thers a lot of baklas (faggs) tho, ha. That sorta kreeps me out! Ok about my schedule. First of all when I am awake most of the time you will b asleep. So right now it is 5pm here and so its 1 am there. So on my watch I have dual time so I always nknow what time it is for you guys, so I check that some times and think what you guys would be doing. So a normal day for me. Wake up at 615, go take my freezing cold, refreshing bucket shower, then make some oatmeal or something for breakfast. I start personal study at like 730 and study gospel stuff till like 830. Right now I have just started Jesus the Christ. Its dope… read it. Then I try to do a little language study. At 9 its comp study. We usually figure out what we are going to do in the day. We don’t really study much as a companionship, which isn’t good. Then at 10 I do some language study. I have so much to learn in the language that its hard to figure out what to study. Then we eat some lunch and leave at 1130. We go to apptment in the day and tracked when we have openings. We stay out the rest of the day and we will eat dinner at someones house or when we get home at night. We usually get home at like 830 to 930. When we get home I will eat and crash out! Usually before 10. I am BEAT by the end of the days. I always say I am gonna study when I get home but most of the time I am too tired. Ha. Ma the only address I have is the mission home one which I gave you the first week. Chantell I just barely got your dear elder today, haha. Thanks. Cody thanks for the emails. Keep sending them everyweek. Even tho I might not have time to email you back… that goes to all yalll! Dad thanks for the updates! Sorry I cant write you back. I have already gone over my 1hr limit to please mom. Haha but its alright, shes worth it  brayden yuou should play football and bball this winter. You are bomb. Rylie and haley, how is school and dance? Email me this week kids. I have fasted several times for that same purpose so I hope my fasting will work. I fasted last week for that. I will again this week. Just have faith and trust in the lord and be obedient and pay your tithing. It will work out! I had more to say about this past week and my investigators but that will have to wait till next time. I have past my time for the day. Love youy all a laod thanks for the supportand the prayers. The language will come, I know that. Peace out my peeps love ya.

Love

ELDER BROCK WILLIAM PERRY