20 Dec 2010

Hey Everyone!

Well this month has just flown by again like none other. It has been a crazy one too, Friday and Saturday we had Christmas parties, then tomorrow we will go to Olongapo for the Christmas Conference then hurry back to Balanga for our Ward Christmas party then on Saturday we don't really have anything planned except going to a members house, Valero family to celebrate Elder Cagayanan's Birthday. I hope everyone is ready for Christmas because it is really close. It has been really easy surprisingly to get into the Christmas Spirit.


Last week we got the Elders Quorum President to work with us on Tuesday so that was a nice change. We went around in this one Barangay and found all the members that were on the CMIS, we had a ton that ran and hid from us. That's one thing about the Filipino culture, its nicer to hide from you than to just come out and tell you that they don't want to talk to you. I guess there's just some things I'll never understand. But we did get a referral from one of them so that was good too.

Today made up for the slowness of the week. We got up at 3:00 this morning and went to Orani for a 1 day Mission where we went to this one Barangay, and did a little program and then got to go teach them all, about the Book of Mormon, there were so many people that were willing to listen and are ready to hear the gospel. They were all Aitas, which is the native Filipinos. They are really dark skinned and have Curly hair. They were soo nice! I hope they will be able to go back there and teach them again. We had like 10 missionaries there and we all took members and split up so we were able to talk to a lot more people.

As for the missionary work in our area. The work with investigators has kind of stopped. It does us no good to baptize if the people just go inactive right after their baptism. So we have been working with strengthening the ward then when they have a little bit of unity, then we will go back to finding and teaching investigators. The mission wants all our lessons to be with members and no other lessons but we are not doing very good at that right now. Its only a matter of time though.

We have no one that invited us over for Christmas it kinda blows.  Last year we had a bunch of people and we had to turn some down.  But oh well.  One thing that I've kinda noticed is that we have a trunky missionary in our apartment and my companion is catching on to things that he does so I'm gonna have to spend next transfer breaking of stuff that he can't be doing.  It kinda blows that I have to be the bad guy but I guess its better its me than someone else.  Hopefully he will thank me someday.

Merry Christmas to you all this week. Remember the true meaning of Christmas and Why we have it.

Love you all

Elder Chase