"Happy Birthday Pops!" Feb 24,2013

Well i just love reading how great you guys are doing over there! Happy Birthday Pops! im glad you got my letter! i hope you have a great day and enjoy getting a little older hahaha but with age comes experience, and with experience, theres no better substitute! keep pushing hard pops and reach the expectation! love ya, mahal kita! Other week down here in santa maria! wow it was one filled with great blessing from the lord and one i am truly grateful for! we have been seeing great things in our area and its been just amazing to see things fall into place and people make some serious steps towards our Heavenly Father! this week i truly felt we were instruments in the hand of the lord, can i just tell ya that the coolest and best experience ever is sitting in a lesson and filling the spirit work through you and seeing these people fill it and make a descision to change, its the greatest! i love being a missionary! we had some good lessons with our investigators and with our less actives. we have been having lots of investigators come to church! this last week we had 6, and out of them about 3 are really close to getting baptized! time is really cruzing by! transfer day is this friday but i know im not getting transfered. Well just know that i am doing good and loving being a missionary right now, the philippines are great and its getting hot! thanks again for the support, karter next week you better write! love ya guys! Elder Machen