Elder Parker Enger Mission Letters

Sunday was quite the day haha. We went to church at 9am, had branch council at 11am, and then for the rest of the day, we visited several members and part-member families to become more familiar with the area. We taught the brother of the girl who got baptized with his brother and their friend, Seth, next door (both are youth), and then all three of us walked to various places in our area to meet some members. It was good, and we met a lot of people, but I wasn't able to talk, and I couldn't understand them most of the time, which was frustrating. Elder Sabala did a great job though, I was proud of him. We were also supposed to be home by 7pm to report our numbers for the week, but we didn't get home until 8:15/8:30pm, and that's where my frustration really boiled over, more than it ever has, I think.  This whole week or so, I've been my reserved self since it usually takes me between a few days to a week to get adjusted at each transfer as I process the new informa...

MARCH 16, 2022 Hello from the Philippines, I have arrived safe and sound in the Philippines, and I'm currently at the Manlia MTC. This past week and a half has been pretty crazy, bit it's been good, and I can't wait to begin this next chapter of my mission. Last Tuesday was my final day in San Jose, very exciting. I had my last district council, and plenty of tears were shed, as you might expect from my very expressive nature haha. We then got some lunch and helped assemble a generator for one of the inactive Tagalog members. The instructions kept contradicting each other, so that was fun haha, but we eventually got it all figured out. We then had a lesson with Elise and Elder Maughan (Elder Bundy's trainee, also Tagalog missionary) and his trainee, Elder Eliason, since Elder Maughan was with Elder Bundy a lot as they taught Elise before he was transfered. It was good, but close to the end of the lesson, Elder Bundy realized that I had to be at the mission office in 15 ...

Hello from the Philippines, I have arrived safe and sound in the Philippines, and I'm currently at the Manlia MTC. This past week and a half has been pretty crazy, bit it's been good, and I can't wait to begin this next chapter of my mission. Last Tuesday was my final day in San Jose, very exciting. I had my last district council, and plenty of tears were shed, as you might expect from my very expressive nature haha. We then got some lunch and helped assemble a generator for one of the inactive Tagalog members. The instructions kept contradicting each other, so that was fun haha, but we eventually got it all figured out. We then had a lesson with Elise and Elder Maughan (Elder Bundy's trainee, also Tagalog missionary) and his trainee, Elder Eliason, since Elder Maughan was with Elder Bundy a lot as they taught Elise before he was transfered. It was good, but close to the end of the lesson, Elder Bundy realized that I had to be at the mission office in 15 minutes, so w...

Hello, Sorry for the lack of an email last week, it was crazy hectic because I found out that I was leaving to the Philippines this upcoming Wednesday, and I had very little time to sit and write out an email. So yeah, surprise! I'll be leaving on Wednesday, and this past week has mainly been preparing me to leave On Tuesday, we had zone conference, which was pretty good. After some lunch/studies, we then met with Elise over zoom and had her new friend in the ward join us, and it went pretty well. We then met with Jester over zoom too, and we later met with Moises to read through the scriptures with him. After that, we had our basketball night; it went better than last week since we had more people and a couple less active members and new people came, which is what our goal is, and it was fun to end the night with that. Wednesday was pretty good too. We had our weekly POSSO service in the morning, which is always fun. After our studies, we tried stopping by and calling Sean and ...