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 Public Transportation. Trycicle 

Pizza with plastic cheese. We were so pumped we found a pizza place. 

LIOZON-BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD 12-10-2017

Hey Family and Friends!

This week started off good with a Family Home Evening at the Diat Family where we shared a spiritual insight about the Priesthood and  ate tons of Spaghetti. They cooked some super awesome tasty Spaghetti for us. So maraming salamat sa kanilla.

On Tuesday we had an awesome finding opportunity. So Elder Jones had a place he wanted to go finding. So we decided to check it out. We started to Tao'po and knock on the doors. The first house, nothing no one there, the second house gave us a wave and so no thank you, we finally came to a street with some people standing on it. When i saw them I told Elder Jones. That's who we need to talk to. But we didn't go at first, we knocked on some more houses and got denied. And then we decided alright lets go talk to them. As we started to introduce ourselves we got to know them. So it was a 20 year old kid and his grandma sitting outside. So we start introducing ourselves and the 20 year kid just talks english to us. We were so shocked haha it was so funny. And to find out he was very familiar to the church. He had been taught like all the lessons before in Baguio(not in our mission). SO we asked him if it was alright to go inside and talk to him. He agreed and we ended up sharing the Restoration again with him. He was answering like all of our questions and knew like everything about it. So me and Elder Jones are just looking at him like whatttttt. So we just were thinking we have to give this guy a baptismal date. But as we were finishing the lesson he opened up to us about how he is in the choir for the Catholic Church and how he just doesnt think he can go to our church. So we told him to pray about and to see what God tells him. So hes super cool. His name is John Ray. So i mean we backed off on the baptismal date. But hes super sick.

But speaking of Baptismal Dates. We set some with some of our investigators this week! One of them is Julie Angel.. She is a part member. Her brother helps us teach her too. Her brother was baptized a couple years ago but didnt really go to church after he was baptized. and then his mom is a super less active. But the dad,honestly i forgot. But weve been teaching Julie Angel because she hasnt been to Mormons yet so were helping her know whats up. She accepted a baptismal date for Jan20. So hopefully we can like reactivate the whole family as she investigates the church. So we will pray for them! 

Yeah and then the others are our homies who went to church last week. Well one of them went last week. Si Niel and Leo. We set them up for Jan too. But their Dad gets home from his Job in Manilla this next week. So were going to have to make sure it is okay with him. And hopefully we can teach them., Because they are an investigator family. But the mom doesnt want us to teach her because the Dad doesnt want too. So hopefully when the dad comes home we can help them know of the truth. So hopefully the tatay is all chill with us. So its honeslty just a work in progress with them because they are shy too but theyre like our homies. Its hard to explain. 

But other than that! We had a sweet opprotunity to teach our recent converts dad! He was telling us how much his head hurts and stuff. So we opened it up to teaching him about Preisthood Blessings and then that opened the door for us to share about the Restoration. So we shared and it went good. The only problem is he cant read because his eyes cant see the words clear. But I think he has some glasses so it shouldnt be a good excuse. So yeah and we got to teach some of his kids too the other sisters in the family. So it was a huge score and a huge answer to our prayers. 

We also finally got to teach some of these people we have been contacting for a while about the Restoration. So it went super good. They are a family who were answering all of our questions and seemed super excited about the Book of Mormon to read it and what not. So we will see what happens. So it was super awesome to teach them. 

Also this returned missionary has been bringing his little step brother to church for like the past month. And hes not baptized. So the thing with him is like hes super hyper. So we can never talk to him and when we do he runs from us. Hes like 12. But this sunday it was different. He actually let us talk to him and we taught him the first lesson. And hes pretty receptive. So Im thinking hes reading to be baptized pretty soon. So wish us luck. I still dont know who his parents are either. So we will see what we can do. 

So i mean. Lots of good teaching this week and helping investigators come unto Christ. We did some good stuff this week. We also had our Mission President interview this week! So that always helps us feel the atonement and he helps us a ton! So props to him. 

So yeah! This week is the last week of the transfer! I cant believe how quick its been! So we'll see what happens see if me or Elder Jones gets transferred. But until that. STAY STRONG all of you and do what is right. Heavenly Father will help us as we follow the Spirit in our lives. 

Also all you Utah people! ENJOY that snow! i miss that stuff! 

Love,

Elder Breinholt

Philippines Olongapo Mission

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Our Christmas packages!!!YAY!!!

The tree in the background my mom made.  I haven't decorated it yet.

Baptism of Revelyn and Alexia

Lighting the World in the Philippines 12-3-2017

I title this email that because malapit na ang Pasko and the initiative the church is doing right now! The Light the World.

We've been handing out pass along cards with the Light the World on it and been inviting people to visitmormon.org 

Its truly amazing how we can help someone in someway everyday as Christmas gets close! Let us all take this challenge and have fun with it! 

Elder Jones and I decided to Light the World by helping this super old lady and her daughter to pick theirs weeds. We were on our way to an investigator when we saw them struggling to pick their weeds. We ended up helping them finish picking their weeds and were able to share to them about the Light the World. It was super awesome and I felt so happy as i spread the Love of Christ and as we invited them to visit mormon.org to find out more. 

The baptism went through with Revelyn and Alexia! We helped them review this week for their interivew with Elder Yingling and they did great! I was able to baptize Alexia and stand in for both of their confirmations. So it was super awesome to finally see them as official members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Their so awesome. 

It was also good to see our new stud investigator at church si Niel. The 16 beast went to church by himself without his best freind who is a member. So yeah thats what were working with right now. So wish me luck with spreading the Christmas Cheer.

 I love you all and Merry Christmas! 

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Our Thanksgiving dinner!! 

Me and the YING ^

Thanksgiving Week! 11-26-2017

Thanksgiving week was awesome eve though they dont celebrate it here in the Philippines. First off it started off with an awesome FHE with a recent convert family here in the branch and then on Tuesday was me and the day Elder Yingling have been waiting for 10 months. Exchanges! 

So on Tuesday me and one of my MTC comps did exchanges Elder Yingling! It was so awesome. Lets just say there has been so much improvement since the MTC haha. We had some really cool experiences when we worked. We ran into a girl in the street who was talking to us about how the past missionaries there taught her. So we asked if we could teach her. So she took us back to her house and their family was there. And we were able to teach the family about the Restoration and it turned out the Dad was a less active of 30 years. But it was surprising because he remembered alot about the restoration. So it was awesome. And the daughter went to church the next sunday! And then we went on an adventure after that. We went hiking up a mountain to see if there were any houses up there. And it eventually lead to the beach and there was a couple houses there. So we found the beach and we saw this fisherman working. So we were just taking pictures of the beach and then we ended up talking to the Fisherman and it turned out he was interested in the gospel! We set a return appointment and they went and taught him and he went to church! Crazy how the Lord led us there. Lets just say it was an awesome time! It wouldve been better if we worked in my area but oh well. Next time. Haha it was an awesome time. Super good to catch up with Elder Yingling! It was such a good time!

Other than that we had an awesome week. We killed a live chicken and cooked it up for Elder Jones' birthday. And our investigators were doing great this week! It was a super fun week. Were getting ready for the baptism of Revelyn and Alexia this Saturday. In matter of fact.. Revelyn not even a member yet in the church, gave the opening prayer in sacrament this Sunday! And they sang in the young women's choir and Revelyn gave a solo at the beginning. So what in the world haha. They are so awesome. And they're super excited for this Saturday! We had an awesome lesson with them teaching them about baptism and we all felt the spirit so strong when we talked about what was going to happen to them on Saturday and how they are going to be baptized. So it was awesome. 

Then on thanksgiving day our senior couples gave us some canned goods and stuff from America for Thanksgiving. So we cooked that up for us and our Filipino housemates and it tasted like home. It was awesome. Our kabahays really liked it too. 

But it was an awesome week! 

One more story! So we have an investigator who's sister is a less active. And we haven't been able to teach her this week because she has been out of town. But their mom has been having health problems. And the less active told her mom that we could give her a blessing of healing. And that's what she did she asked us missionaries to give her a blessing. And we gave her a blessing and it went good. We just told her by her faith she could be healed if she really believed. The crazy thing is she inst even a member of our church. But her heart is slowly opening up to the gospel. So what a blessing! We hope she starts investigating the church! 

Have a good week all of you! Have faith in Christ and he will guide your paths! Go team!

We had mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing and chicken... and i did the filipino thing to add some rice haha.

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Hand washing my clothes!

Finding grind

Baptism of the Investigator me and Elder Leakehe found in Cupang! 

Be a friend like Jobert 11-19-2017

Hey everyone! Hope you guys had an awesome week and ur doing good!

This week was good! We got to teach a boy who went to church with his member friend(jobert) and we also got to know his family! So they're super awesome and were hoping they can progress! Super awesome how the member took his non member friend to church and how it sparked his interest in learning more about the church! And we got to teach his brother also. But they were in the city on sunday so they didn't go to church. But hopefully next week! Their mom is cool! Shes the only one in her family who is not a member of the church. So hopefully we can convince them of the truth. 

Also our teaching went super good with Revelyn and Alexia. We taught them about the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chasity and they are so receptive. They've been reading a ton in the Book of Mormon and praying like crazy. They're getting ready for their baptism on December 2. And they love going to the activities with the branch here. They are so masipag! And they are an Investigator family but the Dad and Mom don't really have an interest in listening to us. So were trying to pray super hard for them. So hopefully we can teach them. But the Dad said its okay if they get baptized. So i mean his hearts open a little bit. We will keep trying with him. 

And we also did some finding this week and it was super hard! We would contact them and share about the restoration and then set a return appointment to actually teach them. And then it would never work out. Like all of our appointments but 1 actually worked out. So its been a little bit of a struggle. But were going to be consistent with it. We got this. Hopefully next week will be better. I got news too and i get to do exchanges with one of my MTC companions Elder Yingling this tuesday. So its going to be so fun! So a lot to look forward to this week. 

And also i got news that one of my investigators in one of my last areas was baptized! Ruffa! So that makes me super happy! She was the member referral i always talked about and she decided to be baptized! So that's so awesome. I remember the first time i met her and i had a feeling that she would be baptized! and turns out i get news shes baptized! So lets go. 

THE WORK OF THE LORD IS HARD BUT ITS VERY REWARDING.

So help us missionaries out and give lots of referrals. So there can be lots of baptisms. 

We also are getting close with this less active named Jonas. His family was baptized a while ago and they stopped going to church. But we've been being friends with him and inviting him to stuff and this sunday he went to church so thats so awesome. And his little sister hasn't been baptized yet but shes 12. So hopefully we can reactivate the family and baptize the little girl! So we'll try it this week! WIsh is luck! 

But in the mean time i will be playing lots of basketball and teaching people the gospel. So you guys can be jealous! Have a good week! 

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Me and Elder Jones

Me and Elder Jones.  He is from Highland Utah just like me!!! I saw him all the time at the Alpine Country Club when I worked there:)

Back to the Bukid 11-12-17

Well transfer week was full of surprises! We got the transfer news and Elder Ramos and I were both transferred! We were shocked! He got transferred south and i got transferred up the road to Liozon. But good thing the branch leader knows about everyone we taught. So they will be able to continue things in Iba. 

Before i was transferred we were able to teach the Perariza Family. And we talked to them about how God gives us all weakness and basically what they need to do to be baptized. So hopefully in December they are baptized. And we were able to teach a PM who should be able to get baptized this month too. And also our goals for November should follow through. So i mean it hurts a little bit to get transferred. But God has a plan. Ill get over it soon. BUT

Awesome news! My new companion is Elder Jones. Hes from Highland Utah! He played on the LP golf team and i saw him all the time at the country club. So its been super fun to finally get to know him more! He just graduated this year. Hes now 6 weeks in the mission. So i get to finish off his training. Its crazy too because his first companion was Elder Sudweeks (my trainer) but last week was his last transfer in the mission. So now i get to take his last area, and finish off the training of Elder Jones!

So now i'm on my 4th area and 6th companion. 5 foreigners and 1 Filipino comp.

So this week Elder Jones showed me our investigators and showed me around our area. Its not too far from my last area. Its just up the road actually. I was shocked how small it was. Apparently the people wake up super early to work in the rice fields and then go to bed super early. So its been a change for me because I've been in the city for the last 5 months were people are up till 9. So its a little adjustment, but it will be all good. We taught some of the investigators they have about the Word of Wisdom and about how much God loves them to a different one. So its been going good so far. We also had a sweet Branch activity that i got to meet a bunch of members in the branch. And we invited some investigators and they went! so that was way awesome. So its going to be good!  

I love you guys and I'm grateful for this time the Lord has given me to be a missionary and wish us luck this week. Love you guys!