Elder Nelson in Phillipines

Dear Elders and Sisters,

Sister Schmutz and I are sitting in the Tagbilaran chapel about ready to begin the Bohol zone conference with Elder and Sister Nielson.  Yesterday, we meet with the Mandaue, Lilo-an and Bogo zones. What a great experiences!  Tomorrow we will be meeting in Dumaguete with Dumaguete and Tanjay zones, and then on Friday we will meet with Toledo, City and Talisay zones.  So it is a busy week, especially when we just completed transfer week and zone interviews.  I hope we survive :)  But we have truly enjoyed the opportuniities to meet with you all and we can see up close how well you are doing.  We love you and we're proud of you.

Of course the bad thing about being away from home is I cannot respond to your letters.  But by next week we will be back to a better schedule.  As I read your letters, if there are any urgent needs I will contact you.  We are so grateful that our missionaries have become so willing to obey and be diligent.  We are looking forward to seeing all of you this week.

Love,

President Schmutz