1 Feb 2010

Hey everyone,

Wow, what a crazy week its been! We had transfers and I said bye to Elder Lebbon, almost cried, got my new companion, and came back here to Floridablanca where I'll most likely be for at least 4 and a half more months. Wow!

We have been teaching a lot of lessons but I don't feel like they are as quality of lessons as what I was teaching with Lebbon. But we are keeping busy. My new companion, Elder Alvarez, is 22 and from Batangas City, which is about an hour from Manila. He goes home in 2 transfers so he'll probably be with me until he goes home. I think president likes giving me the trunky prone ones. I don't exactly know what to think about that. He has been a Zone leader for about the last 6-8 months then he said that he asked president for a break so he put him with me to train me as District Leader. Oh yeah. I got the call as a District Leader, all the other missionaries in my district are over their year points. Ahhh. I'm not sure what to think about that either. But one thing that Elder Lebbon told me that's kind of stuck with me is. No matter what the Lord gives you, its because he knows you can handle it. So I've just got to have faith. ha ha. Back to Elder Alvarez, he hasn't had a lot of other missionaries that like him here in the mission, because he is a little self righteous and plastic. That's been a little different but we're getting it figured out. I just focus on the big problems and leave the little ones. As long as he's not offending people its not too big of a problem and he's pretty straight forward on the obedience so I don't have to worry about that either. I just need to keep him from getting Trunky. Wish me luck!

Our Investigators are doing pretty good, not alot has changed with them. We had an inactive member that Elder Lebbon and I started teaching, Sister Linette Penaflor, we started teaching her 10 year old son, we are hoping by teaching him the lessons, with her there, it will strengthen her faith and make her want to come back to church. A long time ago she got offended by her mother-in-law and Philipinoes don't forgive very easily. That is one of their weak points so we are working with her on that, other than that not much has changed.

Hopefully I'll have more to write next week.Thank you all for your support, I love all of you and pray for you too!

Until next week

Elder Chase