28 Dec 2009

Hey everyone!

I hope everyone's Christmas was great! mine was! I got to call my family in the morning, which was great. Surprisingly I wasn't too homesick like everyone said you get when you call home, so that was a big blessing. After we called we went around to member's houses and ate food ALL AFTERNOON!!!!! I was soooo full oh my gosh. My companion looked at me and said "oh yeah, you're only supposed to eat a little bit at each place" I didn't think about that at the first house. I guess its like a challenge for Philippinoes to feed you more when you start looking full. ha ha. And they would rather give you all their food than see you hungry. Elder Lebbon said its like an honor for them to have American's eating their food. Kinda weird but oh well. Then we went back to our apartment at 6 and listened to all the drunks try and sing outside our apartment until midnight, it was actually quite funny. ha ha. Then it was even funnier to watch all our neighbors with their hangovers walking around the next morning. I guess Christmas and New Years get pretty crazy over here! ha ha

Oh by the way. Happy New year to all of you!

Tomorrow we have Zone conference and we have to perform a musical number as a district and we have no musical talent in our district. So that should prove interesting. Elder Lebbon and I had to come to Guagua today to meet the rest of our district and luckily they have a computer shop here that has a backup generator, because all of Pampanga (the province I'm in) is in a brown out (black out) until 6 tonight. So I almost didn't get to email today.

Other than that, we've been teaching, but not a lot. They say that Pampanga is the hardest part of our mission, because the people just really don't care so its hard to get them listen to us. We were walking down the road the other day and Elder Lebbon pointed at just about every house and said they don't like missionaries and they don't like missionaries. So we've been trying to find new areas. One thing I enjoy about Elder Lebbon is he doesn't care so much about stats as long as we have true conversions. And he doesn't waste time going to people that have stood us up over and over. Its been neat to see how he works. Oh and another thing about Pampanga, we get Joe'd a lot more than I did in Zambales.

We had one ol' boy that we taught last Sunday then we went back yesterday and he had his friends there, we thought we were in for a debate but it ended up they were really interested, they just had some concerns about Joseph Smith. It was really cool though.

Another time last week we went to this place called San Jose and they have a hospital there, we started walking out to the hospital and Elder Lebbon said we might as well just turn around there's no one out here, so we turned around and left. Then later that night it turns out one of our new converts daughter had a miscarriage and was in the hospital she was actually asking for us. Sister Arlene (our new convert) saw us but something told her not to call out to us. (Dag gum Satan, I really don't like him) We ended up going back out to the hospital later that night and teaching about the plan of salvation. It was crazy to see how we were in the right place at the right time but we missed a chance because of the adversary. Oh well, it turned out good in the end.

Well I'm outta time. I love you all. Happy new year.

Elder Chase