17 May 2010‏


Wow what a crazy week! But not a lot really happened.
Monday we got assigned to the house because of the elections and we couldn't go out because some angry person or rioter might come kill us or something ha ha. We painted our house in morning and I'm proud to say that I didn't get any paint on my clothes!!! Cool huh. Then in the afternoon we got really bored and went outside and played baseball in the little courtyard of our house. We used a bamboo pole as our bat and a tape ball as a ball ha ha, then it got hit up on the roof of our house. The first time I roped it off. It was SWEET!!!! Then the next time in the 2nd inning it got hit over the roof and they boosted me up on the roof and I had to run and get it. I don't think those roofs are as stable in the ones in America. ha ah But I made it through. My friend once told me that the cool thing about buffalo is that they face their fears so like a buffalo I jumped up on the roof and hoped I didn't fall through.(maybe a light buffalo) Don't worry I was smart I walked on the bolt line ha ha.
Tuesday we went to Santa Cruz for our Zone Conference with Elder Edwards, he is the Area president over here. Wow, what a smart guy. We have one new member, Edralin, that likes to ask deep questions about the Gospel. Well my knowledge of the gospel is limited. So we asked him the questions and he answered it as easy as the question "Who is the son of God?" We didn't get home till late from there so no work! Dang!

Wednesday we went to work and had a good day. Taught a bunch of lesson and went out to one member and ended up walking home in the dark. We said a prayer before we left and low and behold about 10 minutes after we started walking my companion got bit by a snake! So he's been in the hospital for the past week and i'm working with a branch missionary. Nah just kidding. Gotcha!!:) After about 10 minutes a tricycle came and it was actually an answer to my prayer because I was hoping that a tricycle would come so we didn't have to walk home past the cemetary in the dark. So we flagged the guy down and he consented to take us to the highway where we would walk to the town square (Bayan) so my companion jumped on the back and I squeezed into the side cart. ha ha After about 2 seconds I figured out that they guys were Drunk off their rockers! ha ha ha They were so funny! One of them wanted to read something so I gave him a restoration pamphlet. ha ha Then I took their names and told them we would go to their houses. ha ha. I love Drunk guys they are sooo funny and they are easy to talk to! When we got to the highway they shook my hand and one followed me out of the tricycle and wanted to walk. He was too drunk to walk so I helped him get back in the tricycle.

Thursday, nothing really crazy happened but we did teach a bunch of really good lessons. we have one investigator that told us she wanted to learn, she only has a 4th grade education but her faith is such that she will read the Book of Mormon even though it is hard for her. She believes everything we say and we got her to pray when we were there, it was really cool. One of the fruits of this work is when you get to see people progressing and their first prayer is especially a great thing to see. Sometimes you can feel that they are stuck and you have to say a couple words to get them going again but by small and simple steps great things happen. Especially when it comes to missionary work. Even with our drunk investigator, it starts with getting him to reduce his shot size, then his amount of shots. Then getting him to come to church. It is great to see. Even if they fall back into their old ways for a bit. You can pull them back out easier when they have the desire and they know what is right.

The other days of the week. Nothing really happened. Sunday we went right to Bolinao for baptismal interviews right after church. It is cool being able to do baptismal interviews and see listen to people express their feelings about the things that they had to do in order to get to the point that they are at. For many it is literally a life turn around.

Sunday as well, we had one family come to church. the Huellas (Wellias) family, they are such a great family. The first couple times we went there they told us right up front that they were hard core Catholic. We said, "thats fine we just want to share with you about the gospel of Jesus Christ and if at ever you don't like it, just say so." Then we got them to church. The kids, and the wife all have friends now and brother, I think he has a few familiar faces there. I think they will be back, they are such a great family. We'll see what happens to them.

Thats about all I ahve time for this week. Thank you to everyone for everything.

Love you all

Elder Chase