March 3, 2014: Week 19 "Another One Down" - A letter from Cole's Mission President right before he sent me his email last night and Cole's letter

I received the letter below from Cole's Mission President right before Cole sent me his letter yesterday.  So excited for him!!  Cole's email is included below the letter :)


THE CHURCH OF

JESUS CHRIST

OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

PHILIPPINES ANGELES MISSION

F. Tañedo Street, Barangay San Nicolas

Tarlac City, Tarlac 2300

Philippines 

March 3, 2014

Dear Sister Gordon:

Recently, your son, Elder Cole James Gordon, was appointed to serve as a Senior Companion in the Philippines Angeles Mission. Accordingly, we wanted to extend our gratitude to you for sending such a wonderful young man to our mission.  Elder Gordon is a great asset to us because of his obedience and dedication to the work. 

Thank you for raising Elder Gordon to be the kind of young man he is.  You can be proud of him and the work that he is doing here.

Sincerely,

David C. Martino

President



COLE'S LETTER THIS WEEK:

Hello everyone!

Well, I got a new companion this week!  His name is Elder Lungay.  Hes a stud.  And I am now lead of my area :(  Which is really difficult when you cant speak the language.... Haha but it has been a journey for sure!  I've learned more Tagalog in the last few days than I have in this whole time!  But this week was so busy.  Not a lot to talk about this week to be honest.  We were in Cabanatuan City more than in our own area.  We had transfer day and then Saturday our stake conference started.  It was really good!  Our mission president stood up and gave a full talk in Tagalog... Which was actually really funny because he has a heavy Texas accent.  But it was a very good talk.  We were also able to sing with the stake and that was awesome.  There was a very cool feeling in the room.

We don't have very many baptisms coming up... But one thing that Ive learned this week is to be grateful for what you have and just have faith.  We don't have any progressing investigators, but we have a chance of having 10 less active members return by the end of the month.  I am more than excited for every single one of them.

Sorry that this week has been so brief.  To be honest with you..... It was really boring haha.  But this next week will bring something amazing!  I can feel it.

I love you all!

Until next week,

Elder Gordon