7 Dec 2009

Hey everyone,

The work is still moving forward here in San Marcelino Philippines. Last Saturday we had the baptism of Sister Jane Fontillas, she was baptized by here cousin, which was awesome, her whole family is iglesia and has been harassing her about her decision but she just told them that she knows the church is true, and she has a special feeling when she goes to church with us. We were very excited. When she bore her testimony on Saturday at her baptism she told us about how she knew that this church is where she's supposed to be. It was amazing.

Then yesterday we had 3 baby blessings, of older children that hadn't been blessed yet, then 1 confirmation (sis. Jane). It was a busy day. oh, funny story, I invited an old drunk guy, he speaks 15 different languages or dialects and he said he wanted to come to church with us. So of course we said that's great! So he came and then during testimony meeting he got up and started preaching about Jesus Christ's Earthly Ministry, it was....interesting to say the least we were listening to false doctrine and I think we only heard a little bit but it was so out there that we didn't need to worry, the branch president was on the edge of his seat the whole time, but it turned out alright. ha ha We were a lil nervous.

Crazy food of the week: are you ready for this?.......last night I had dog yes like the ones that are peoples pets. It actually wasn't too bad. One of the member's had it and I had adobong aso. The meat kinda has a spicy type taste to it. But now I can say that I've eaten dog. ha ha.

This last week we transferred houses into a bigger house that is right next to our old one, its got an upstairs and its a lot cooler. The other house was like a tin can. We were very grateful for the move. The transfer happened because we had the brown out, then the next day we had to go to interviews and we were both out of it cuz we didn't get any sleep so president said "find a new house" then it just so happened that the family next door had moved out. (Blessing)

All my other investigators are doing good, Brother Jonathan (asawa ni Jane) (husband of Jane), we are still working with him, we are thinking we will be able to baptize him before Christmas which would be an answer to our prayers! The members are starting to really help out with the missionary work and we are getting to be a really strong branch I'm excited. We started doing a weekly program for sacrament like we have in the states and everyone loved it. So we will do it again for next week and see if we can't make one for every week.

Well, that's about all I have time for this week. I'll write more next week,

I love you all, and thank you for your support
Elder Chase