22 Mar. 2010‏


Hey everyone,

So this last week has been pretty good and we had some great sucess. Because of time I'll only be able to tell about a couple of them.

Our stats were up this week from last week, not that that's really important to me, and its kinda weird still trying to be Sr. Companion. If I don't have the answer usually we gotta tell them that we will answer the question when we come back. But thus far its been pretty fun handling the concerns of our investigators.

We found a new family that seems to be really willing to learn, Camba Family, they are really knowledgable about the Bible and they asked a lot of questions and usually I get a lil nervous about answering questions but I could feel the Spirit burning inside and it wasn't hard at all. I love it when that happens.

Not a whole lot has happened here this week. Oh, except we had some visitors come and stay next door last Tuesday and then they left today, but they were from London, England, so they had a sweet accent.  So Elders Muliaina, Gardiner, and I went and talked to them almost every night, it was cool. They just asked us about the life of a missionary and stuff, we tried to share with them but Elder Gardiner just likes to talk and he made a mess of the lesson, so finally Muls just turned to him and in Tagalog said "Tama na" which means "Thats enough" ha ha.  Then Muls tried to patch things back up and fill in the holes but not much luck. It was kind of an eye opener to us because we could evaluate ourselves as teachers in english and Elder Muliaina and I were not very impressed with ourselves. Becuase we always talk in Tagalog. Its just kind of a motivator to be a better teacher.

Dad, you asked about other dialects. I've encountered a few others, Ilocano, Capampangan, Pangasinan, Visiayas and a few others but I haven't picked any up yet. I'm still trying to master Tagalog but I imagine I'll try and pick up a few before I come home.
 
Last week we helped one of the neighboring areas with a community service project, the investigator is getting married and his future wife is a member so it was a good chance to build a relationship of trust with the missionaries and members as well as help an investigator. We cleaned all the knots and stuff off of the bamboo. I hit my arm once, (I missed the knot) and it kind of hurt but no blood and just a little bruise ha ha.

My branch is so cool they are more than willing to help wiht the missionary work. Especially the YSA and the Youth. Even if we are not with them, they go out and work and visit non-members and our investigators. They really are a great example of how we all should be as members in this church, helping the missionaries out and doing our part as much as possible.

Next week is going to be crazy we have a couple baptisms in the district and the whole district goes to them to support the other missionaries, then we have a wedding to go to, then we have Zone Conference on Friday so that should be fun. I'll write more next week about how it all goes.

Love you all

Elder Chase