14 June 2010
Hey everyone,
Wow what a great end to last week, being able to watch the Cebu temple dedication. We were assigned to watch the 12:00 session and 3:00 session. I really didn't want to because I wanted to go back to my area and work. I was obedient and went to the 12 and 3 session, When the 2nd speaker started speaking at the 3:00 it was all too apparent why we were told to go to the 3:00 The area presidency talked and I, as well as the other missionaries I talked to took something from their talks, they talked about missionary work both as missionaries, and members, and how it all eventually leads to the temple, I learned a lot.
On Saturday, we had a Cultural Event, it was in Cebu as well, and the Prophet was there. It was a lot of dancing and stuff, a couple were cool. President Monson is getting Big!
I've got a bit of bad news, Batas, our alcoholic, was doing so great! Then, the bank foreclosed on his land and he started up drinking again. Every day we went to his place he was drunk, or any other place we saw him he was drinking. On the bright side, he wasn't able to read before because his eyes are so bad, but when Elder Pennock had to go get glasses, they gave him a free pair of reading glasses, we gave them to Batas and he can read now! He was so excited and he looks so Pogi with his new glasses! Not really, he looks kinda funny but the first thing he said was he was going to do was read the Book of Mormon, and we hadn't even mentioned anything about it, so that gave us a little hope. Then the other day, he told us that he had another problem, his son had run away and they had not heard anything from him. So we are praying for him and hopefully he will show up. His mother-in-law is a bitty. It is actually her land that they foreclosed on and she is blaming Batas, every time he goes home it ends up in a fight. He is kinda scared of going home, she doesn't like us either, so it doesn't exactly help that we are friends.
We also have been offering our condolences to a family here, on Wednesday they said good bye to their mother. 2 sons are members;1 is inactive and the other is abroad in Abu-Dabi. 1 other son is a friend of ours; we used his jeepnee when we moved, and now the rest of the family are our friends. But it was sad, all of a sudden she had a heart attack and died. Last night we went over there again and they were having a small service there for her. Almost all of them are Born Again Christians. So there was a lot of singing and halleluja, and oh yes Jesus-ing going on. ha ha The look on Elder Pennock's face when he first heard the lady saying "oh yes Jesus" during the prayer, was priceless! ha ha ha It was a first for him. It really is sad, I was listening to everything they said and for the most part he is right, but they have no knowlege about the spirit world, or the ressurection, and the 3 kingdoms. We are hoping for a chance to teach them a little bit. We just learned that the mormon brothers want to do a Mormon service so we are going to be doing that next Wednesday! Then Thursday they will bury their dear mother, Sonia.
The rain has slowed down it only rained like 2 or 3 days this week. Kind of depressing because it is very hot again.
In un-missionary work news, our fridge died, we had to stay up late one night cooking our meat so it wouldn't go rotten, so we had 6 containers of Adobo, now its sitting in the freezer of the couple missionary's home. ha ha. Gotta love it, the guy is coming Wednesday to fix it. The fish is starting to stink, we should probably throw it out now. We'll see,
Ha ha love you all,
Until next week
Elder Chase
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