September 2015

September 7th 2015...So my comp got transfer and I am staying in Mauban which I am happy about!:) I have heard my new comp is pretty cool so i am excited for that! glad to hear everythings going well... I am doing good and we did find teach the investigator and he said he feels something inside him so we are going to give him a baptismal goal date on saturday so hopefully that works out, I am excited for him:) Oh tell dad to look up that motivational video about a black guy in a class room, its so freaking good!:) Tell Lucas I say to watch it too and it will motivate him in school and if that doesn't tell him to look up the video of the guy talking about his mom I almost cried haha! Love Elder Herrin aka Pony boy

 

September 14th 2015...cool story a guy walked in to church on saturday while we where doing service and he came up to me and said are you guys mormons and i said yes why? He then told me he watched a mormon movie and a song was stuck in his head and he asked if I could help him understand what it meant! i talked to him and the song said "Come Back" and I thought about the restoration and talked to him about it, it was a really cool experience and we ended up having a lot in common he told me he has depression and i told him it ran in my family and that some of my family members also had to take stuff for it, we talked a while and was really awesome we are going to teach him so I am really hoping he accepts the gospel! anyways we also have a baptismal goal date set for our other investigator october 17, so I am really excited for him and for the opportunity I have had to serve in mauban! :) anyways glad to hear about taylor and katey and tell them i wish them the best and can't wait to see pics!:) Tell Zack willes congrats for me and that I wish him all the best! tell everyone else I love them and am doing great! Mom you need to do family night, family scripture and family prayer! it might seem hard to do at the moment but I look back and am so happy to have the memories I have made and what i have learned from you guys, I just wish I would have spent more time with you in my younger years so please do hold all those and I promise you will look back and be super grateful! "A family that prays together, stays together." anyways love you all very much miss you like crazy and the cool thing about my comp is hes not super good at english like its hard for him so I have been able to pick up tagalog quicker:) Mahal na mahal kita, Mahalin Elder Herrin aka Captain Ron

September 20, 2015....My comps name is Sadueste and he is filipino, are investigators are okay only one is progressing but I am excited for him he just needs to get more into the book of mormon.. but hes not the best at reading like its hard for him to read, thats okay we will help him tho and pray for him! :) I had what I think to be a star fish on my hand haha!.... oh I gave another talk on sunday about the blessings that come from living the law of chastity it went well everyone understood me even tho some of the words where in english! I even mentioned a quote "Modest is hottest." hahaha only a couple people laughed there... tough crowd! hahaah but I also in are zone meeting with pres shared the quote "when life gets too hard to stand kneel." He liked that quote and shared this with me "A man never stands taller than when he is on his knees." and I really liked that one! anyways I am almost done with the book of mormon, I finished Joseph Smith history and am working the pearl of great price... I will be done with that shortly and then I will either start new testament or doctorine covenants! thats one thing about my new comp is that he is really good with the bible! I want to get better at the bible too is really intresting reading the bible and I love the stories and just the different words and verses they have! There is also a new challenge that president gave us to read the book of mormon in like 9 months maybe less i don't remember but I am excited for that too! anyways love you all very much I will try and send pics later today, Love Elder Herrin aka Forest gump

  September 27th 2015....         I am doing pretty good out here. I am sad I missed it(taylor and kateys wedding) but grateful they made the right decision getting married in the temple. But that sounds awesome they are a cute couple and when I show pics of us to the filipino people they say we are such a cute family and we all our pogi aka handsome. Man I miss dancing at parties I wish I could bust some of my new moves I have learned from people here or just by myself haha. This girl here named Rosette the one I baptized is so funny at dancing she would show some of the YSA her moves and I just started laughing so hard haha.. her dancing is just random haha!  I am so proud of Taylor and miss him a ton tell him I love him and Anthony too and there wifes that I love them all am so glad they made the decision to get married in the temple :) investigators are coming a long, I havent worked out in a while.. both my comps are skinny and don't want to haha! so two days ago we went to this thing in lucena called family week and we where playing a game and a member said to me the zone leaders are watching you.. like we werent supposed to be playing and then told the zone leaders on us.. and then are president told the members that the Elder and sisters can play.. since we don't have families here the members should let us join there games and include us like family haha, I bet that guy felt pretty stupid. anyways my tagalog is a lot better but I still need to study a lot more. we are doing a 90 day book of mormon challenge and lets just say I need to catch up haha, but I am almost finished with the book of mormon and moses then I need to catch up in the new book of mormon reading challenge.. sorry if that didnt make sense haha. anyways love you mom and am doing well.. haven't died yet! Love Elder Herrin aka Skipper