8.24.09

Hey everyone,

This last week has been so hectic here at the MTC. We are at the point now where in and out of class we are only to speak Tagalog. We are doing it most of the time. Ha ha its kinda hard where our vocabulary is sorta limited. But we have fun trying to understand each other. This week we start teaching our lessons in Tagalog. So that should prove to be quite interesting. I'll let you know how it goes.

On Saturday when I was in the Referral Center I talked to a 64 year old gentleman that wanted to be baptized but he didn't want the priesthood and he didn't want a calling. Especially in the Temple. I had to go but we are emailing each other and I'm going to see what I can do. My plan is to talk about how everything in our church is done with the priesthood and try to help him see how vital it is. I'm excited to go see if he's emailed me. Then I helped this sister with questions about repentance. And I even talked to a guy in Alabama that was willing to have the Missionaries come talk to him. Its been a pretty great week.

Elder Perry and I are getting along great and it definitely shows when we have to teach lessons and in the way we do everything. The lord has definitely been blessing me. We got to go to the Temple Dedication yesterday for the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It was really cool. And most the Elders I'm with have never been to one so they liked the experience. And chances are, we will be able to go to one in the Philippines. They are currently building a temple in Sebu. So that would be neat to attend.

I can't believe that I'm already half done here. Time is flying by so quick and doesn't look to be slowing down at all. I love it.

I gotta run, But thank you all for everything.

Love you
Elder Chase