16 Nov 2009

Hey everyone,

How is everyone. I'm great, we had another baptism last Saturday and now I have a little bit of a break until December 5, and that will be my Iglesia couple, who are golden investigators. We would have gone for the 28th but she has the board exam for nursing. Everyone here goes into nursing, I guess its because there is such a high demand for it abroad. Its pretty cool because they are all very smart. ha ha.

Oh, the other night we had dinner at an inactive members house, and we had steak! it was my first steak in about 4 months. and she was apologizing because she said it was a bad meal. But I was soooo excited! ha ha. She was sick, she had some wine the other night and had an allergic reaction to it. It was her first time drinking and it was her last too. But we talked about blessings from God and about the Word of Wisdom and about life, it was really fun.

I have had a fun time this week talking to drunks, I don't know why this week but we seemed to run into drunks everywhere, they are very nice! ha ha It is amazing how good they can speak English when they have a little liquor in them, so before we'd leave we would give them a Word of Wisdom pamphlet and figure out where their house was so we could go visit them again and stop their drinking! It's what we do. Then we ended up debating a guy for a while the other night who was drunk and a catholic. He was very knowledgeable about the bible. That was kinda fun. The whole conversation was in English. ha ha. Usually they were construction workers. I was watching them work the other day and it is amazing to me how they use everything around to do things. They are so industrious and because most of them have never seen the "easier" way or the American way they are totally content with it. Really its how life is over here, with everyone, it is really amazing to see what they can do with their limited utilities and with what little they have they do great things.

We had a new missionary come in this week, I met him briefly in the MTC then today we went to Pundaquit as a zone and I got to visit with him. He's gonna have some challenges, but I hope I will be able to help him. He has been spoiled all his life and never had to work for anything but we talked about that today and I think he will come around as soon as he realizes what his mission is. I'm sure I was (am) the same way in some aspects. ha ah

Well I gotta run, Thank you all for your prayers. And thank you to all of you who make it possible for me to be here

Love you all
Elder Chase