I guess I'll start with Transfer day, 6:30-3:30 we had missionaries coming and going, and for some reason there were an unusual amount of other people that decided that they should travel on that day too. We had about 8 missionaries coming from the south going to the north. My companion, Elder Buckmiller got transferred down to Balanga, he left about 7:00 so I got to run the transfer point by myself. What a rush. But I put my back out. For the new missionaries or future missionaries. When you are lifting suitcases, use your legs not your back. It hurts when you pull muscles in your back.
My new Companion was one of the last 2 people to get here, because he was coming from the northern part of the mission. He is great! About 16 months in the mission and has been a Zone leader for a while. We were house mates in his first area up in Alaminos, so I knew him from there and saw his potential and he is a fun companion. I am so happy to have a Filipino companion again.
On Thursday, Brother Alberto and Aldrin Faustino were baptized. Then the next day brother went to Maynila; where he waited to go to Singapore. He left yesterday. The next day we went out to their house to teach them and Brother gave a powerful testimony to his Sister and mother who were both there visiting. We were so happy.
His wife told us that she won't commit to a date to be baptized but will continue to be taught and investigate the church. We are trying to figure out what is holding her from baptism. She said before that it was because she was scared of not being able to magnify a calling. We have taught to handle that concern, 2 times now. Last night when we came out of the lesson; Elder Ragasa said that maybe she thinks that if they get baptized, no one will continue to visit them. So we will try that route and see what happens.
Saturday, We were in the middle of Personal Study and one of the Assistants called and told me that the sisters had a problem. The drain pipe of their reserve tank had fallen out and was spraying water everywhere. So as a temporary fix they shoved plastic bags into the hole to slow the flow of water. Their old pipe was so rusty, there were no threads left on it whatsoever. It was fun to fix it. Even though it was just a small things.
Yesterday in church President Manglicmot called for a coordination meeting to figure out why the Branch Missionaries were not working with us. So he sat there why we scheduled the whole week out and got members to work with us. There are 2 really big events happening this week with the Jubilee (the celebration of 50 yrs of the church being here in the Philippines), and the Youth Conference with will happen at the church on Wed, Thur, and Fri. Then the Jubilee on Saturday.
I don't know why but it seemed so much easier to find people this week. We found people that were just interested. The Lord really just placed them in our path. Part members, friends of members, people sitting on the side of the road that looked at us as we walked by and we felt impressed to stop and talk to them. President Aquino talked about 2 types of finding
Finding can be describe in two ways.
One, finding can be like the rays of the sun it is scattered and as you plant everywhere eventually it will grow and at the same time plants needs the light to bear fruit and those fruit bearing trees are the ones we need to find. Just like an olive vineyard, you have to go every tree and check on the fruit if it is good or not. This is the type of finding we always do, talk to everyone, knock on doors, referrals from members.
Another is the laser, the light of the laser is pencil point or sometimes pin point it depends on the lenses used. Just like a laser pointer used in presentation finding can be like that also, pin-point accuracy. But how do you do that? Take note of the scriptures 2 Nephi 4:34, Alma 37:34-37, Alma 21:1, 1 Nephi 4:6, D&C 9:8, 8:2-3, 6:22-23.
All Future missionaries, study those scriptures and take note of what you need to do in order to use the more effective of these 2 methods.
One other sad thing that happened last night,we went to a members house to see if I could use her phone to call home. (Happy mothers day to all you mothers out there). What we found we were not expecting. One of the members that has been a member for less than a year was sitting at her cousins house. She had been beaten very, very badly by her husbands cousins. Sister was drunk and smoking, but we took care of that. When she wasn't looking and with the help of the sister Marilyn, I hid her beer in my bag and dumped it out when we had left. And I took her Cigarettes. We were really sad to see that some men will result to beating a woman just for a good time. We heard the men were on drugs, if you can call them men. It was really sad and I can't really explain what I felt but my first thought was Jesus Christ and his suffering for this woman. Its up to us to use his suffering and Repent and put away our childish things, grow up and focus on the things that really matter as we work out our eternal salvation with fear of God. Let us all do all we can to be a happy family and show our love those we love and "do unto others, as we would have done unto us.
This is my prayer
Until next week
Elder Chase
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