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Saying Goodbye to Good Friends
11 years ago
Monday, May 31, 2010
05/30/2010 (Burgos Area)
Wow! Life sounds pretty crazy in the Christiansen family haha a wedding, twins, barbeques every Saturday man o man! Well tell Brad to make sure he keeps his priorities in order (meaning the cabin) before he focuses on things like weddings and grandkids. Haha! just kidding but anyways knowing Britani she probably wants to get married up at the cabin anyways! Haha! But seriously.... you should send me the Christiansen’s email so I can email them one day.
I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures. You need to send some to Matt. I feel like the pictures I had didn’t even show you the real Philippines the next ones will be better. Haha! I got new pictures of caribou (Water Buffalo) and real rain (which is way stronger and crazier than I could have ever imagined). Videos of the freaking loud thunder, bats, snakes, and all sorts of stuff on the new memory card, when it’s full I’ll send you that one!
It’s pretty crazy but ya anyways transfers are in 4 days so we’ll see what happens there. But funny thing about the pictures I sent you -- so we go up there to the post office place and I'm like I want to send these and they’re like ok well do you want to register them and I'm like no that sounds stupid so I was like no just send them and they’re like well then you can’t and I was like k I want these to make it to America if they will make it without registering then good lets do it but if I have to register them than ok. So I'm thinking registering is some huge process and they’re like o you have to register them and I'm like ok whatever register it then and lets move on I don’t care as long as it makes it. She hands me a receipt and that was it! So now it’s a joke with me and Elder Hale cuz whenever Elder Hale sends something I'm always like well let me send it I'm registered and it will make it to America and stuff! HAHA! We think it’s cause it was discs and not just a package. You have to pay like 25 pesos more 50 cents and for some reason they call it registering. It was funny so I'm always joking about being registered cause it was a big long misunderstanding conversation when I was talking to them about it haha. But anyways ya im glad you liked the pictures.
This week I ate pig feet. It was interesting but not too bad in all seriousness. But I wouldn’t go out of your way to try it haha. The baptisms were great and everything’s just fine. But anyways I just remembered I need to write that letter to Bro Gibbons so I’ll talk to you later.
love ya
jas
A few snippets from his brothers' emails!
To Matthew:
ya so this week was a good week! We had our interviews and I think I’m stuck in Burgos for a while or at least that’s what President made it sound like. but we get a new President next cycle. It’s crazy I barely got to know President. Haha!
But ya I’m getting used to my companion and I’m just dealing with it. I found out if I don’t tell him to get up or if I don’t tell him lets go work and just let him call all the shots basically like I feel he is supposed to we get out earlier, we work harder, and everything goes smoother. I found out that pushing him makes him want to work less. So before I felt like I was doing everything and now I feel like he’s actually contributing it’s been better. Sometimes I guess it hinders to push people like if I push him we might not get out till 2 maybe even 3 but if I just let him be we sometimes get out when we’re supposed to so I’m learning to be more patient and relaxed.
But I forgot for a young women activity they had a beauty contest. It was so funny - they would dress up in modest clothes and walk down the runway and one time there was some yw who weren’t ready and they were calling their names and no one came and so this old "large" lady as a joke walked down the runway strutting and stuff it was so so so funny I almost died laughing!.
But ya anyways other than that our week was just okay -- we didn’t teach a whole lot of lessons this week cause we were really busy with district stuff and ward activities and our baptisms but we got a few good referrals for a change so we’ll see how it goes.
Talk to you next week.
Jas
To Eric:
You better get dad to get the cabin finished so I have somewhere to stay when I go hunting. That's crazy that school is out, everyone here just went back to school this last week so their schedule is way different. There's nothing really to fun they can do in the phillys during the summer cause they don't have any money and everything fun they have already done a million times so it gets old for them so they work with us. It's fun -- they will climb trees and get us fruit and we show them how to talk to the little girls they like but are too embarassed to talk to so we help them out but i tell them that it will cost them one mango and they will find a mango tree and up they go. The little kids around here are awesome! Anyways have a fun summer!
Love ya, Jas
I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures. You need to send some to Matt. I feel like the pictures I had didn’t even show you the real Philippines the next ones will be better. Haha! I got new pictures of caribou (Water Buffalo) and real rain (which is way stronger and crazier than I could have ever imagined). Videos of the freaking loud thunder, bats, snakes, and all sorts of stuff on the new memory card, when it’s full I’ll send you that one!
It’s pretty crazy but ya anyways transfers are in 4 days so we’ll see what happens there. But funny thing about the pictures I sent you -- so we go up there to the post office place and I'm like I want to send these and they’re like ok well do you want to register them and I'm like no that sounds stupid so I was like no just send them and they’re like well then you can’t and I was like k I want these to make it to America if they will make it without registering then good lets do it but if I have to register them than ok. So I'm thinking registering is some huge process and they’re like o you have to register them and I'm like ok whatever register it then and lets move on I don’t care as long as it makes it. She hands me a receipt and that was it! So now it’s a joke with me and Elder Hale cuz whenever Elder Hale sends something I'm always like well let me send it I'm registered and it will make it to America and stuff! HAHA! We think it’s cause it was discs and not just a package. You have to pay like 25 pesos more 50 cents and for some reason they call it registering. It was funny so I'm always joking about being registered cause it was a big long misunderstanding conversation when I was talking to them about it haha. But anyways ya im glad you liked the pictures.
This week I ate pig feet. It was interesting but not too bad in all seriousness. But I wouldn’t go out of your way to try it haha. The baptisms were great and everything’s just fine. But anyways I just remembered I need to write that letter to Bro Gibbons so I’ll talk to you later.
love ya
jas
A few snippets from his brothers' emails!
To Matthew:
ya so this week was a good week! We had our interviews and I think I’m stuck in Burgos for a while or at least that’s what President made it sound like. but we get a new President next cycle. It’s crazy I barely got to know President. Haha!
But ya I’m getting used to my companion and I’m just dealing with it. I found out if I don’t tell him to get up or if I don’t tell him lets go work and just let him call all the shots basically like I feel he is supposed to we get out earlier, we work harder, and everything goes smoother. I found out that pushing him makes him want to work less. So before I felt like I was doing everything and now I feel like he’s actually contributing it’s been better. Sometimes I guess it hinders to push people like if I push him we might not get out till 2 maybe even 3 but if I just let him be we sometimes get out when we’re supposed to so I’m learning to be more patient and relaxed.
But I forgot for a young women activity they had a beauty contest. It was so funny - they would dress up in modest clothes and walk down the runway and one time there was some yw who weren’t ready and they were calling their names and no one came and so this old "large" lady as a joke walked down the runway strutting and stuff it was so so so funny I almost died laughing!.
But ya anyways other than that our week was just okay -- we didn’t teach a whole lot of lessons this week cause we were really busy with district stuff and ward activities and our baptisms but we got a few good referrals for a change so we’ll see how it goes.
Talk to you next week.
Jas
To Eric:
You better get dad to get the cabin finished so I have somewhere to stay when I go hunting. That's crazy that school is out, everyone here just went back to school this last week so their schedule is way different. There's nothing really to fun they can do in the phillys during the summer cause they don't have any money and everything fun they have already done a million times so it gets old for them so they work with us. It's fun -- they will climb trees and get us fruit and we show them how to talk to the little girls they like but are too embarassed to talk to so we help them out but i tell them that it will cost them one mango and they will find a mango tree and up they go. The little kids around here are awesome! Anyways have a fun summer!
Love ya, Jas
Friday, May 28, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Pictures!!
Elder Ward
4 Happy Missionaries in Burgos!!
Elder Hale, Abitria, Ward, & Saet
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Elder Abitria, Saet, & Ward
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Elder Abitria, Saet, & Ward
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Elder Ward & Saet
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Monday, May 17, 2010
05/17/2010 (Burgos)
So anyways the week was good! I’m not sure what to write about this week it was good! I saw some guys fishing this week and its pretty sweet they throw this net out into the water and then they wait a second and pull it in. it’s sort of like a crab net but big and it has weights around the ends in a circle and it bubbles up in the water and the fish try to swim out and get caught in the net holes. It’s cool to watch!
I’m sending you a bunch of pictures this week on discs so that you have them and I’ll have pictures stored at home for the future. I’m kinda clueless on how I should store my photos. Should I just buy memory cards for all of them or what. I can’t decide cause that would be expensive I think but who knows.
I’m going to buy grandpa a barrel man. They’re hilarious! You’ll get a kick out of it and I’ll send it with the backpacks somehow but everyone tells me the mail is reliable here. Nobody has said so far that anything has been lost but who knows if that’s true or not.
But anyways… questions you asked no baptisms recently but we have 5 on the 29th so that’s exciting and yes mother we have had some rains this week haha! My comp claims that it rains everyday during the rainy seasons and a typhoon is on it’s way cause there are birds migrating and the rains started earlier. Anyways it rains all the time but what’s the coolest is the lightning. In the US it’s just like one at a time and it’s quick and gone … here it lights up the sky for a good 10 seconds like around dusk and then it happens every minute or so. It’s way sweet! I went to film it on my camera the other day but it ran out of power and died.
Anyways I’m running out of stuff to tell you!
Love ya though!
Jas
I’m sending you a bunch of pictures this week on discs so that you have them and I’ll have pictures stored at home for the future. I’m kinda clueless on how I should store my photos. Should I just buy memory cards for all of them or what. I can’t decide cause that would be expensive I think but who knows.
I’m going to buy grandpa a barrel man. They’re hilarious! You’ll get a kick out of it and I’ll send it with the backpacks somehow but everyone tells me the mail is reliable here. Nobody has said so far that anything has been lost but who knows if that’s true or not.
But anyways… questions you asked no baptisms recently but we have 5 on the 29th so that’s exciting and yes mother we have had some rains this week haha! My comp claims that it rains everyday during the rainy seasons and a typhoon is on it’s way cause there are birds migrating and the rains started earlier. Anyways it rains all the time but what’s the coolest is the lightning. In the US it’s just like one at a time and it’s quick and gone … here it lights up the sky for a good 10 seconds like around dusk and then it happens every minute or so. It’s way sweet! I went to film it on my camera the other day but it ran out of power and died.
Anyways I’m running out of stuff to tell you!
Love ya though!
Jas
Sunday, May 2, 2010
05/02/2010 (Burgos)
I haven’t been spending anything really just cause I couldn’t get my support card to work but I got it figured out now so we’re good but I wanted to have some personal money just for emergencies and in case I see something sweet I want!
But ya so this week was crazy! You don’t understand what real rain is until you see the rain here! It is crazy but is way cool … all the Filipinos are terrified of rain. It’s pretty hilarious! They think if rain touches your head you get sick so it’s pretty entertaining to watch them scatter when the rain starts coming down but its not raining bad yet just little spurts everyday. I guess later on it will rain for days … I’m sort of excited for that!
Happy Birthday! I get to celebrate everyone’s birthdays a whole day ahead of you guys it’s kind of crazy! It’s been kind of depressing here. Everyone is sad that Pres Villanueva only has this cycle and one more left but I’m sure it will be just fine.
This new companionship has been a lot more challenging for lots of reasons but I’m doing ok and I’m sure there’s something I can learn from my new companion maybe like patience or not to let little things bother me. I can’t wait for the next couple of weeks, we have some sweet investigators right now so hopefully we make some things happen.
With the rain came the curse that Moses put on the people of Egypt meaning frogs -- there’s these huge bullfrog things everywhere like literally everywhere and my comp is deathly afraid of frogs. I got and kill all the frogs and see how far I can kick them they’re literally 100s of them. Just walking for 10 minutes I can kick probably 20 to 30 frogs. It’s crazy!! But anyways I don’t know what else to tell you. I know there was another crazy story like the bat one but I can’t remember what it is to save my life.
O yah! Yesterday we were walking home and there was this little goat that seriously wouldn’t leave us alone. It got loose from its rope and was following us. When we turned around, it turned around - when we ran, it ran. It was so funny. The missionaries with their pet goat! It was pretty hilarious! All these Filipinos were cracking jokes at us about it.
But anyways that’s it for this week! Have a good week and I’ll talk to you later!
mahal kita Jason
(Jason's letter to Matthew)
Ya you can get anything made out of leather you can think of really anything. But I haven’t got your bag made yet cause I can’t decide which one to do yet. There are a few way cool designs that I want him to make. I designed my own hunting pack that he made for me but I haven’t seen it yet so I don’t know. But I’m assuming its way sweet! I still like my Dakine backpack better but the other one just is sweet colors and has cool stuff on it. I was thinking I might want to design you a hunting pack or fanny pack or something but I haven’t decided what would you rather have a sweet small backpack with like your mission on it or a hunting pack for when you get home that’s sweet. It’s up to you or maybe even both if it’s not to expensive to ship. Cause it only cost 9 dollars for a small one and 14 dollars for a big one so I can do either.
This week I had lots of adventures -- another bat flew through the window and got stuck in our house flying in circles. This one was way crazy! We were sitting on the couch cause it was storming rain and we were shooting the ball on a little basketball hoop thing. All four of us facing the wall and all of a sudden a bat falls from the sky. So I’m hiding on the couch with my comp and Elder Hale, scared to death of this thing flying around us. Elder Hale’s comp is hiding behind a suitcase but it flies by and Elder Hale makes a run for his room and it catches up and was flying right next to his head like literally a foot away. It was so funny and crazy! We ended up just laying it out with a broom and killing it.
There was another crazy story but I can’t remember what it was. But anyways I’m sure I’ll remember later -- have mom send you her email.
Love ya and this stupid computer won’t let me copy and paste so send this to mom too will ya!
Jason
But ya so this week was crazy! You don’t understand what real rain is until you see the rain here! It is crazy but is way cool … all the Filipinos are terrified of rain. It’s pretty hilarious! They think if rain touches your head you get sick so it’s pretty entertaining to watch them scatter when the rain starts coming down but its not raining bad yet just little spurts everyday. I guess later on it will rain for days … I’m sort of excited for that!
Happy Birthday! I get to celebrate everyone’s birthdays a whole day ahead of you guys it’s kind of crazy! It’s been kind of depressing here. Everyone is sad that Pres Villanueva only has this cycle and one more left but I’m sure it will be just fine.
This new companionship has been a lot more challenging for lots of reasons but I’m doing ok and I’m sure there’s something I can learn from my new companion maybe like patience or not to let little things bother me. I can’t wait for the next couple of weeks, we have some sweet investigators right now so hopefully we make some things happen.
With the rain came the curse that Moses put on the people of Egypt meaning frogs -- there’s these huge bullfrog things everywhere like literally everywhere and my comp is deathly afraid of frogs. I got and kill all the frogs and see how far I can kick them they’re literally 100s of them. Just walking for 10 minutes I can kick probably 20 to 30 frogs. It’s crazy!! But anyways I don’t know what else to tell you. I know there was another crazy story like the bat one but I can’t remember what it is to save my life.
O yah! Yesterday we were walking home and there was this little goat that seriously wouldn’t leave us alone. It got loose from its rope and was following us. When we turned around, it turned around - when we ran, it ran. It was so funny. The missionaries with their pet goat! It was pretty hilarious! All these Filipinos were cracking jokes at us about it.
But anyways that’s it for this week! Have a good week and I’ll talk to you later!
mahal kita Jason
(Jason's letter to Matthew)
Ya you can get anything made out of leather you can think of really anything. But I haven’t got your bag made yet cause I can’t decide which one to do yet. There are a few way cool designs that I want him to make. I designed my own hunting pack that he made for me but I haven’t seen it yet so I don’t know. But I’m assuming its way sweet! I still like my Dakine backpack better but the other one just is sweet colors and has cool stuff on it. I was thinking I might want to design you a hunting pack or fanny pack or something but I haven’t decided what would you rather have a sweet small backpack with like your mission on it or a hunting pack for when you get home that’s sweet. It’s up to you or maybe even both if it’s not to expensive to ship. Cause it only cost 9 dollars for a small one and 14 dollars for a big one so I can do either.
This week I had lots of adventures -- another bat flew through the window and got stuck in our house flying in circles. This one was way crazy! We were sitting on the couch cause it was storming rain and we were shooting the ball on a little basketball hoop thing. All four of us facing the wall and all of a sudden a bat falls from the sky. So I’m hiding on the couch with my comp and Elder Hale, scared to death of this thing flying around us. Elder Hale’s comp is hiding behind a suitcase but it flies by and Elder Hale makes a run for his room and it catches up and was flying right next to his head like literally a foot away. It was so funny and crazy! We ended up just laying it out with a broom and killing it.
There was another crazy story but I can’t remember what it was. But anyways I’m sure I’ll remember later -- have mom send you her email.
Love ya and this stupid computer won’t let me copy and paste so send this to mom too will ya!
Jason
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