Time really should slow down!!!!
This is ridiculous. My batch that is an AP showed me my travel itinerary for when I go home. It blows.
I almost got stopped by the adversary this week! But I won! I got a nasty cold a few weeks ago and haven't totally gotten over it. I've been trying to drink lots of water and get rid of it, but I forgot my water one day and that's all it needed. So on Wednesday we had Exchanges with the Assistants and Elder Erickson made me go to the Dr. So I went and he just gave me a bunch of drugs and we'll see if I get better. But that's not the funny part. On Wednesday, I lost my voice totally. The investigators were laughing at me. But we didn't really get to teach a lot that night.
The next day we had exchanges in Morong and I had to pray really hard that my voice would come back, guess what! It did! Miracles that come through prayer never cease to amaze me. Although a little weak still, I was able to talk and to teach. Then the next day I had to go do 2 baptismal interviews, on Friday it was the holiday called Mahal na araw. Its where the Catholics take and beat themselves on the back with bamboo and it put cuts in their backs so that its bleeds, its all supposed to be in representation of the Atonement, then they have people that nail themselves to crosses and all sorts of stuff like that. Its a pretty gruesome sight. It makes me sad to see. I only saw the people carrying crosses around and whipping themselves. I didn't see anyone getting nailed to any crosses.
We finally got Faustino Family to commit to baptism. We were so excited for them. On May 21st they will be baptized if not sooner. We are worried a little about sister. I think she is a little nervous about moving religions. We heard that she gets bored at church so she really needs an assignment or a calling but she's got to get baptized first. Brother is so ready and so are their kids. One of the blessings that he has received because he has been showing his faith to the Lord is he got called to go abroad to Singapore. We are excited for him.
We taught this new investigator on Saturday, first lesson. At the end of the lesson we asked him to pray for us. It was crazy, he really wasn't very sure of how to pray but we patiently taught him how to, then when he did it was such a great prayer. The spirit came in so strong while he was praying. Then after a little pause after we had said Amen, I asked him what he was feeling. He said that its like there was something big inside of him, and like all his cares were gone. We told him that was the spirit. It was great.
Well that's about all I can think about this week. We have ZLC this week and will be having some new zone leaders coming in. We are excited for them.
Love you all. Thank you for your support.
Elder Chase
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
18 April 2011
Hey everyone,
I'll have to apologize at the first because this will not be very long because we have an appointment in like 15 minutes.
Things went great last week. We got to work, we weren't together for more than 2 full days the whole week.
We had exchanges with 2 of the missionaries in the zone. I never cease to be amazed how great the new missionaries are. The rising generation here in the mission really has some potential to make things great happen. They are almost all leaders. I’m excited, it puts into perspective how much quicker the Lord’s work is going, and I’m sure that people are seeing it in other parts of the world as well.
We have the one missionary that I mentioned last week. The one that goes home this transfer, Him and his companion are making remarkable progress. Their work has picked up a lot and I just might get my birthday wish that he will finish his mission with no regrets and he can say he sprinted to the end.
Yesterday I gave a talk in Sacrament, it was fun. It got even more interesting when President Aquino showed up ha ha. Turns out that they were coming back from Maynila. They had training and our church was the closest one to where he was at 9:00, so we got a visit from him. It was funny how everyone gets so nervous when he gets around. They all want to make an extra good impression on him.
We also had 3 missionaries from the mission come to our church because they were on their way to Maynila for a check-up. 2 have epilepsy and 1 had a problem with his foot. President told us that we were to feed them, then send them to Maynila. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem, but we had no food at our house on Sunday. So it made it a little rough. I don’t know how but we made it work. 3 cups of rice for 5 people. It made me think of the pioneer story about the flour barrel that never ran out. It was neat.
Well I wasn’t lying earlier. I gotta run. Love you all.
Elder Chase
Sunday, April 10, 2011
11 April 2011
Hey everyone,
Well another week in the books and boy was it a busy one! We had another missionary come down with Dengue Fever so he got admitted to the hospital. We were running around like crazy taking care of him. He started to not feel good last Monday but he didn't say anything, then Tuesday he still had a fever so we gave him some medicine and sent him home. He just gradually got worse until Sister Aquino told him to go get a check-up and we found out that he had Dengue, all the nurses were commenting on how so many of the missionaries seemed to be getting sick. With Dengue and Amoeba's. ha ha We just smiled and said "opo" or "yep" Poor Elder Duco, he was going nuts in the hospital doing nothing but reading so we exchanged companions yesterday morning and let him go to a session of conference. Then we went back and let him go work with Elder Buckmiller and I stayed at the hospital. It was fun chatting and telling mission stories about our companions and such.
We also had Leadership training last week. I can say that things went a lot smoother this time than the last time. A lot more organized because we were more sure on what we should be doing.
The work last week was alright, We had Exchanges and did some more training for the new district leaders. Also one older District Leader. The old one, his key indicators have always been consistent, but consistently low, so we have been trying to work with him and get his effectiveness up. He goes home this transfer and we would really like to see him end his mission on a high note. We talked a lot about goal setting, him and I, and I had him set some goals of what he could do before he goes home.
We have an investigator that we committed to be baptized last week. Sister Loren is a part member whose husband we just reactivated. They are great and such a great couple. We told her that Brother Jerome (her husband) could baptize her and the expression on brothers face was great ha ha. He was shocked but I think he's liking the idea more and more. Faustino family, a family of investigators, they are so close and the kids and sister all want to get baptized but brother is still not sure. He has had sign after sign, so we are trying to help him recognized the signs now. The time is coming and they will be great members. Future leaders. One of the kids, Aldrin, 13 years old, got a job to help his family because his dad didn't have a job at the time. Aldrin paid tithing and the next week he earned more. Its great!
Well that's about all I've got for you this week
Love you all
Elder Chase
Future missionaries: Go to Mormon.org and load a few profiles of "I'm a Mormon" then play it thru just listening then when it gets done, write down everything you can remember, then listen to it again and see how much you missed or how many things you got right. You should get over 10-15 things. This is a listening activity that we did here in Zone Conference. Then repeat the activity with a different clip and write down all the things you observed while watching (write it after you have viewed the clip). Then do another one and write down everything you felt while watching, impressions you got about that person. Things unsaid and unseen that the Spirit told you. Do this activity once or twice a week.
You should progressively get better at listening and remembering things people said.
Well another week in the books and boy was it a busy one! We had another missionary come down with Dengue Fever so he got admitted to the hospital. We were running around like crazy taking care of him. He started to not feel good last Monday but he didn't say anything, then Tuesday he still had a fever so we gave him some medicine and sent him home. He just gradually got worse until Sister Aquino told him to go get a check-up and we found out that he had Dengue, all the nurses were commenting on how so many of the missionaries seemed to be getting sick. With Dengue and Amoeba's. ha ha We just smiled and said "opo" or "yep" Poor Elder Duco, he was going nuts in the hospital doing nothing but reading so we exchanged companions yesterday morning and let him go to a session of conference. Then we went back and let him go work with Elder Buckmiller and I stayed at the hospital. It was fun chatting and telling mission stories about our companions and such.
We also had Leadership training last week. I can say that things went a lot smoother this time than the last time. A lot more organized because we were more sure on what we should be doing.
The work last week was alright, We had Exchanges and did some more training for the new district leaders. Also one older District Leader. The old one, his key indicators have always been consistent, but consistently low, so we have been trying to work with him and get his effectiveness up. He goes home this transfer and we would really like to see him end his mission on a high note. We talked a lot about goal setting, him and I, and I had him set some goals of what he could do before he goes home.
We have an investigator that we committed to be baptized last week. Sister Loren is a part member whose husband we just reactivated. They are great and such a great couple. We told her that Brother Jerome (her husband) could baptize her and the expression on brothers face was great ha ha. He was shocked but I think he's liking the idea more and more. Faustino family, a family of investigators, they are so close and the kids and sister all want to get baptized but brother is still not sure. He has had sign after sign, so we are trying to help him recognized the signs now. The time is coming and they will be great members. Future leaders. One of the kids, Aldrin, 13 years old, got a job to help his family because his dad didn't have a job at the time. Aldrin paid tithing and the next week he earned more. Its great!
Well that's about all I've got for you this week
Love you all
Elder Chase
Future missionaries: Go to Mormon.org and load a few profiles of "I'm a Mormon" then play it thru just listening then when it gets done, write down everything you can remember, then listen to it again and see how much you missed or how many things you got right. You should get over 10-15 things. This is a listening activity that we did here in Zone Conference. Then repeat the activity with a different clip and write down all the things you observed while watching (write it after you have viewed the clip). Then do another one and write down everything you felt while watching, impressions you got about that person. Things unsaid and unseen that the Spirit told you. Do this activity once or twice a week.
You should progressively get better at listening and remembering things people said.
Monday, April 4, 2011
4 April 2011
Hello, hello, hello,
It was a great week. I kept my birthday a secret the whole week. And I didn't get stuck in the hospital. Well I should say it was a secret until we got to ZLC, then I found out its hard to keep secrets from the mission presidents wife who has access to that kind of information. But she made it an awesome birthday for me. We had great food and she made my favorite cookies, these really really big homemade oreos. They were great. Even though I had a cold it was good. I found out that water will drive a sickness away you just have to drink a lot. I drank probably 4 gallons that day, it was easy because all we were doing was sitting in the mission home discussing what was happening in the mission. We went straight from the mission home in Subic to Lubao where we had a meeting with the Branch Presidents. We got there and there was only one that showed up but he was one of my favorite people from Floridablanca when I was assigned there, Brother Pangan. His family is awesome!!!!
On Tuesday and Wednesday I went up to this little place called Morong and did exchanges while the District Leader and Elder Buckmiller stayed in the area. It seems that the new missionaries are getting better and better. They are quicker to understand, apply new teaching skills, better with the people (well almost all of them) We have some great missionaries that are going to make great leaders.
This week we have a leadership training down in Orani, and exchanges tomorrow, and Friday. Saturday and Sunday we get to watch GENERAL CONFERENCE. We are so excited. I can't believe how fast time flies.
Oh, and we had another member pass away this week. Brother Ceperes (pron: seperez), this was an inactive member that we were planning on doing a Family Home evening at their house last Monday but it didn't happen for some reason. It was sad because Monday night he got put in the hospital because of a ruptured blood vessel in his head. Thursday we got the news that he had passed away. We had a service there last night, Elder Buckmiller and I gave a team talk about the Plan of Salvation. It turned out alright.
Well that's about all I have to report on this week. hopefully I'll have more next week. Love you all
Elder Chase
PS future missionaries: get familiar with the events that happened in the life of the Savior and familiarize yourselves with them in the bible. Where they are, the purpose of people, (i.e. john the baptist, 12 apostles, Mary, etc.)
It was a great week. I kept my birthday a secret the whole week. And I didn't get stuck in the hospital. Well I should say it was a secret until we got to ZLC, then I found out its hard to keep secrets from the mission presidents wife who has access to that kind of information. But she made it an awesome birthday for me. We had great food and she made my favorite cookies, these really really big homemade oreos. They were great. Even though I had a cold it was good. I found out that water will drive a sickness away you just have to drink a lot. I drank probably 4 gallons that day, it was easy because all we were doing was sitting in the mission home discussing what was happening in the mission. We went straight from the mission home in Subic to Lubao where we had a meeting with the Branch Presidents. We got there and there was only one that showed up but he was one of my favorite people from Floridablanca when I was assigned there, Brother Pangan. His family is awesome!!!!
On Tuesday and Wednesday I went up to this little place called Morong and did exchanges while the District Leader and Elder Buckmiller stayed in the area. It seems that the new missionaries are getting better and better. They are quicker to understand, apply new teaching skills, better with the people (well almost all of them) We have some great missionaries that are going to make great leaders.
This week we have a leadership training down in Orani, and exchanges tomorrow, and Friday. Saturday and Sunday we get to watch GENERAL CONFERENCE. We are so excited. I can't believe how fast time flies.
Oh, and we had another member pass away this week. Brother Ceperes (pron: seperez), this was an inactive member that we were planning on doing a Family Home evening at their house last Monday but it didn't happen for some reason. It was sad because Monday night he got put in the hospital because of a ruptured blood vessel in his head. Thursday we got the news that he had passed away. We had a service there last night, Elder Buckmiller and I gave a team talk about the Plan of Salvation. It turned out alright.
Well that's about all I have to report on this week. hopefully I'll have more next week. Love you all
Elder Chase
PS future missionaries: get familiar with the events that happened in the life of the Savior and familiarize yourselves with them in the bible. Where they are, the purpose of people, (i.e. john the baptist, 12 apostles, Mary, etc.)
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