13 Sept 2010

Hey everyone

 

Boy do I got a story for all of you!!!  So Monday I had to go to the hospital to get some tests run, don't worry bout that part of it.  Well, I got a check-up at the Doctor and he said fatty foods, salty foods, and sweets are a big No No right now.  So basically he told me I have to fast for now! But he said that I can eat fish.  Which is fine, fish is delicious, so later that night we had a family home evening with one of my favorite members, Sister Jane.  And I was obedient to what the dr said and I was eating fish! Then I ate a fish bone and it got stuck good in my throat and I couldn't get it out! I tried everything. So I text the couple missionaries to tell them what was going on and I might be going back to the ER to get the bone taken out if I couldn't do it myself. So what did they do?...they come and get me.  They wouldn't let me try and do it myself. So at 10:00 at night I walk into the ER and say I've got a bone in my throat and they say, okay take a seat the dr will be here in a minute.  So no big deal.  Then the dr comes and says, oh, sorry we don't have the stuff to take that out.  Our ENT is at a convention in Maynila.  GREAT! So we went to one other clinic place that was open and no one was there to help me.  So I told Elder and Sister Ashcraft to take me home and I'd try and sleep with the bone in my throat still.  I was able to sleep surprisingly well probably becuase of running all day I was exhausted.  Then then next morning we went to the ENT and while we were waiting I could feel that the bone had moved up a little bit but it was scratching harder on my throat.  But I thought to myslef, everyone said eat a banana cuz it will grab the bone and take it down, so we left and went and bought a couple bananas.  One of them went down too easily and availed nothing.  The next one was a little bit bigger and maybe a little too big. ha ha I got it lodged in my throat and started panicing a little bit, then I threw it up a little then swallowed it again and it went down with a little resistance but it did the job, it grabbed the bone too.  When the ordeal was over I looked around and there were probably 25 philipinoes standing around staring at me and Elder Pennock was cracking up! Then we hurried and left and I laughed too. Then carried on with our day.

 

Yesterday we confirmed 3 of our 4 investigators that got baptized last week and I've attached pictures of that.  That was great.  I am hoping they will continue and flourish in the gospel.  There is one of them that I am worried about, the other 3 not so much.  Then I gave a talk about making our homes a heaven on earth.  It was kind of boring.  I'll probably have a chance to speak again and redeem myself.  The sad thing was we only had 8 investigators come to church, usually its up in the 12-15.  Part of that is because we haven't been able to work as much in our area because of meetings this week, we were gone Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, because of meetings.  It showed that the work suffered too. We've got to be working.

 

We had another Investigator that told me that he wants me to baptize him and I was like brother, you have to decide if you want to be baptized before October because I might be leaving then.  He was like I sure hope not.  He is one that we hadn't expected to grow like he has but lately he has done great and is really considering it.

 

Earlier we did a service project with the Zone for one of the Branch presidents in the area.  When we had a big pile of weeds the 2 big americans threw the little american (me) into the pile of weeds. It was fun! but unfortunately my hands are soft and I've gotten a bunch of blisters and cuts.  Oh well.

 

We found a new investigator last week named Jordan Ancheta and he is great! We were commiting to pray to know and he was like I know its true, because you guys leave your homes, you pick up our language and you share this great message.  We are hoping that he will continue to learn and grow.  He works with the Red Cross over here and when the big storm came through last year he worked with a lot of members of the church as they helped the people that had lost close to everything.  I would have liked to be around when that happened. 

 

Well thats all I've got here

 

Until next week

 

I love you all

 

Elder Chase