Proclaim my gospel from land to land and city to city

Hello! It's been a couple weeks, but I'm here in my new area, which also may be my last area since I have one more transfer left after this cycle haha, we'll see if there's any crazy changes. I'm here in Bambang, which is where I lived when I first arrived in the Philippines, my first area is actually the area right underneath us, it's pretty cool. Because of that, I'll occasionally see people I've already met before, either from our branch itself or from Almaguer (my first area), which is always a nice and fun surprise. I'm serving in the Bambang 2nd branch, my companion is Elder Gella (who was in the MTC with Elder Gernale, who I trained in Almaguer), and we lived in a 4 Elder apartment with the zone leaders, and things are going well so far. It's the largest "city" I've served in so far here in the Philippines (it's still just a municipality though, not technically a city yet), and we don't have bikes, which means we're either walking or taking a tricycle a lot more than in my past areas, and it also means we're doing a lot more street contacting...which is honestly not something I find enjoyable, and I actually haven't done it as much in my past areas haha, so it's a bit of an adjustment, but we're getting there. Like I said, things are going well so far. I continue to be the Digital Finding and Teaching Coordinator alongside Elder Gardner because the social media team hasn't been reorganized yet, so it's been interesting co-DFTC-ing it with him even though we're not companions yet anymore lol, and we were even able to meet with the social media leaders from another mission in the Philippines to discuss advertisements and give them some advice and encouragement. We've also met some nice families over these past couple of weeks who have also been coming to church. Aristotle is the husband of a member who came back for the past week after working abroad for a while, and Julianne is her sister, and we found them by the wife inviting us and several other members to dedicate their new home last P-Day, which was great, and they're doing well so far, their whole family came to church yesterday, which was awesome to see haha. We've also been having some nieces/relatives of the Relief Society president---Shanaia, Jessica, and Mariane; their cousins of each other---coming to church on their own for the past couple weeks, and we were able to meet more of their family and schedule a time to visit some of their whole families this week, which should be good, they show some great potential in continuing to progress on this path to Jesus Christ and receiving greater peace through His gospel. Anyways, those are some highlights from the past couple weeks, hopefully I'll have more things as I continue to adjust to the area and become more familiar with those that we're working with haha, I'm excited to see the great miracles here in Bambang. See you all next week! Elder Enger 1-2 - Eating some buko (coconut) halo-alo (ice cream mixture) 3, 7 - Landscape/mountain pictures 4-5 - Korean BBQ with the branch president 6 - First Sunday at Bambang 8 - Returning to Almaguer chapel for a district council 9-10 - Saying goodbye to Elder Gardner (and running into Elder Gernale on the way as well haha) 11 - Berb

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