15 Feb 2010
Hey everyone,

This week not much special has happened. We had zone conference on Wednesday which was awesome. My companion and I have not been getting along very well lately and I was harboring some less than nice thoughts about him, but I knew I needed to have the spirit for Zone Conference, so...I prayed all morning and when it started I still wasn't feeling it, but, as time when on, I started recieving insights from the Sprit! It was awesome, by the end I had no bad thoughts about my companion, and I haven't really since then, it was awesome, President Aquino teaches so well with the spirit I know he was called of God to be our Mission President.

Today we we spent our whole P-day building a bathroom for a lady in the ward and her family. It was hot and dirty, but it was GREAT! I had so much fun! We dug the hole, then filled it back in because it was in the wrong place and dug it again in the right place, then mixed the concrete, and set the posts then poured the concrete, all of this is by hand ha ha. And we used bamboo for everything! ha ha the posts: bamboo, the ties in the concrete floor: bamboo. The stabilizers for the bamboo posts: Bamboo, it's used for everything over here, its cool.

I get to go on splits tomorrow for the first time as District leader and I'm a little bit nervous. I'm only 5 months in the field and the other missionary is over a year now! Talk about intimidating! ha ha but I've learned lately to really rely on the Lord. He will not abandon us if we have the faith. I'll write more about it next week, how it goes.

One story about the spirit guiding:

We recieved a referral from one of our members here and we went out to their house, and come to find out, the people were not there, so we visited for a while then left for our next appointment. We had to cross an old wood bridge to get to their house and before we left I had a thought, what if someone fell in. I invisioned it in my head, they step on the offside of one of the planks then fall into the river, well, we were leaving and the members were walking out with us and sister stepped on the offside of the plank, hit her head on the cement, and rolled down into the stream below, I felt sooo bad. I knew it was going to happen and I didn't do anything about it. I recieved inspiration from the Spirit and I didn't act, and because of it a 62 year old lady has some bumps and bruises today. I learned from that experience I need to be more obedient and listen a little better. This mission has been a HUGE learning experience for me and I'm so thankful for it. I know that I need to live worthy to recieve the Spirit and he tells us things to help others and ourselves. We all need to listen to the Sprit and apply it in our lives.

I know the Lord is in this work on every hand and we need to heed to his direction. I've really been thankful for him lately. I pray for you all always, and thank you for your support and prayers,

Until next week

Elder Chase