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.