7 March 2011

Well its a very Bitter sweet moment right now!!!!

Ahhh with Caydyn leaving I'm excited but I don't like that he leaves only 8 days before I go home!!! What is this!? ha ha ha.

Well happenings for the week. I went over to do exchanges with the District leader in Dinalupihan Zone and helped him find some new investigators. This missionary is a great guy he just is a little shy. It was fun. We knocked on a few doors and I really see it as too big of a deal but I was just being my goofy self and making jokes about chasing people, or hiding until they came back out then suddenly jumping in front of them and talking to them. Its kinda like what I always do so nothing new, then later that night we had some teenagers that I think were kinda drunk that yelled, "hey friend, where are you going?" I said "I'm going over there! where you going?" he said, "I'm staying here." so I said, "that's good diyen ka muna" which is like, okay you stay there. Everyone was laughing, then we went to a member and they were doing a family home evening so we got invited and ended up doing the lesson. It turns out that a lady there that I thought I had seen was a member from there that I met way back when I was companions with Elder Lebbon, Nanay Presy. It was fun to talk to her, they told me the news that Brother Lebbon had gotten married and she told me to punch him when I see him again for not keeping in contact with his nanay. ha ha ha. Magingat ka lebs!!!

When we were doing the evaluation at the end of the night I found out that because of continual let-downs one of the missionaries was kind of discouraged, but he was very thankful that it had been a good day of finding. He said that I was the reason, even though I hadn't done anything different or important, I just did the work, and was happy, I showed him something about diligence, and doing the work with a smile. I have kind of been thinking about that lately, how people watch things that we don't know they are watching. So its important, especially as missionaries/leaders in the church, our attitude is a good one, one of a disciple of Jesus Christ.

After the Exchanges, we worked one day in the area, then went to the mission home Thursday morning until Friday afternoon for ZLC, again, it was full of the Spirit, revelation, great stories, and good food. Sister Aquino cooked, so it was great. The only problem I really have with ZLC is we evaluate the key indicators of the mission, or the stats, then talk about them. yeah... I'm not very good with numbers and I usually end up lost in the end. But the other stuff about it is great, especially getting taught from President Aquino, that guy is amazing!

After ZLC we went to our area and got Elder Adriano whom we had left on a special assignment with a companionship in the zone. He was to evaluate them and keep them working hard and making sure they got out on time and everything. It is really nice to have an assistant. We were supposed to be making sure he doesn't do anything bad and isn't disobedient, but he has done wonders for our companionship and I told President that I'd like to help him get up to where he can lead a district by the end of his mission. Based on what I've seen lately he can do it, we're just building his self confidence and helping him realize that its easier to obey than to regret later.

Saturday, we went to a meeting with the Branch Presidents of Dinalupihan district, only 2 showed up because it was raining. It was muddy too because its farm land over there so I got muddy. It was fun. Then we found out one of the sisters in that area was sick so we ran over, gave her a blessing then hit the road to come back to Olongapo. It was a crazy week, but very rewarding. The work is starting to progress more. This week we have training for 2 days so that should be fun and keep us busy as well.

Well that's my report for this week

Elder Chase