20 Sept 2010

Hey everyone,


Sorry, no fish bone stories this week. I was careful about what I ate.

Oh its been a busy week though! Holy cow!(banal na baka) that doesn’t directly translate and make sense in tagalog. On Saturday we went and did a service project at an elementary school. It was pretty fun. We painted, and cleaned and I got to use a hammer to hang stuff up in a classroom. It was actually a decent size hammer too! Ha ha. We had 3 investigators come to it and I think that they all had fun.

Yesterday we had 3 investigators get passed off for baptism. They will be baptized next Sunday. Elder Guevarra, the missionary that interviewed them said that they were all “Ang Galing” which basically means that they were great! That is good to hear because it means that at least most of what we are teaching is sinking in to their heads. One of them is an investigator that has 3 daughters that are members. I am way excited for her. As we were reviewing the baptismal interview questions with her she was struggling a little bit but her husband who had just come from work and had drunk a little bit answered every question about the commandments. He will not be far behind her getting baptized then 1 year after that they will go to the temple. I’m hoping to come back for that.

We gave a baptismal date to a gal this week that everybody says is homosexual. But I don’t know, we taught Law of Chastity and she didn’t say anything to us, but this week we will teach her the baptismal questions and covenants and hopefully if there is a concern we will be able to handle it no problems. It was really neat because when we went there we asked her to pray and she gave a beautiful prayer and actually started crying! I was like WOW!

On Thursday, we came down for yet another specialized training. We had to teach Elder and Sister Ashcraft…in ENGLISH!!!! It was so hard! Oh my gosh! But we got it done. I had a few struggling moments, or as we like to call them, Nose bleeds. But the Spirit came through for me and touched them and us. It was fun with just our Zone, everyone was making comments on how I have been here for so long. Me and one other sister, Sister Suniega, are the pioneers up here. She’s been up here for 9 months and Me, 7 ½ months. Transfers are in 2 weeks but I don’t really feel like I’m leaving yet. But we’ll see. The members start getting all worked up when I mention transfers. Ha ha ha. I suppose that’s a good thing.

We went to a birthday yesterday and I’m happy to say that there were no drunkards there. Absolutely no alak or alcohol. It was quiet but I think sister Dianne had a good time. It helped that her mom had passed her interview that day.

Well I gotta run. Love you all

Elder Chase