4 Jan 2010

Hey everyone.

Happy NEW YEAR!!! I gotta say that the holidays here in the Philippines are not very eventful. We have to go home at 6 and watch everyone get drunk outside our apartment and listen to the fireworks... it was kinda funny to watch everyone, we went to sleep about 10pm but I woke up about 11:30 until 12:30 and I watched the fireworks out of the window in our bedroom. They were sooo LOUD! Wow!

The work, well its been a bit slow the last week. We had P-day on Monday, then Tuesday we had Zone Conference and that was in Olongapo, then Wednesday Elder Lebbon was sicker'n a dog; I got a lot of studying in that day! :) Then we worked our rears off thru the rest of the week.

I've found out that the people of this tribe here in Pampanga are pretty hard headed. Thus teaching is a little difficult. But, the ones that we are teaching are golden, its awesome! We have this one lady named Annalee, every time we go to her house she has lots of questions, and every time we go to her house she wants to go to church more and more. Its neat, I think we'll get her to church in the next couple weeks. She's well on her way to having a strong testimony of our church. She says she knows its true, we just gotta keep answering her questions. Then we found this lady named Lorma, she's married to a guy that's Iglesia thus she has to be "Iglesia" but she doesn't believe it. She was very excited about the gospel. Every time we go out there she feeds us so much food, she is way nice. Another plus is that President Aquino says we need to find people that WANT to learn and everyone we teach WANTS to be taught. So its awesome, even if it is slow going.

Sorry, I haven't had a lot of weird food in the last couple weeks. I haven't eaten much weird food since i came to Floridablanca but if this will gross you out I'm gonna eat Balout tonight. (the half formed duck embryo, its really good:) )

Oh, yesterday in church I found a member who is studying to be a veterinarian so we were comparing about how they do things here and in America like AI-ing and stuff, it was cool then he gave me some tips on how he used his experience in veterinary medicine in his mission, it was cool.

I think that's about all for this week.

Thank you all for your support in my mission. I love you all,
Until Next week
Elder Chase