Hey Mum,
Life is good in the Philippines. Healthy and alive! Work has been great and I have been noticing an improvement in the language. The way I measure that is by how bad my English is becoming (lol). It has been a good week.
Last Wednesday I attended my first Zone Leader council meeting. It is called a council meeting because ideas are put forward and we have the opportunity to give our opinions and advice, then we sit in 'council' and discuss the ideas and look at any changes that need to be made in the Mission. It is really cool. One of the changes that has been made is in the member present lessons for the mission. Our main focus is changing from a baptising mission to a rescue mission. It is awesome and everyone is stepping up to the change. My Zone is doing good and as a Zone activity next week, we're planning to go bowling. Cool.
Oh yeah, the reason why my email is late (if you hadn't already figured it out) is that it is Temple day and we got up really early to get ready to be at the temple on time. We arrived at the temple, got changed and got into the session and waited for everyone else to fill the room. The spirit in the temple is indescribable. It is always great to be able to do work for our kindred dead and assist them in their own salvation.
Sounds like life is good back home and that you are all having fun doing all kinds of different things. Sounds like Cola has got her head pointed in the right direction now. Good on yah Cola! Preparing to enter into the service of the Lord really is the best place to be.
We had success with some of our less actives where we had over 10 come to church and it was amazing. I was soooo, happy when I saw them walk through the Chapel doors. Woohoo! The Lord truly is helping us as we focus on the less actives this year and I know we can accomplish our goals.
Okay a story. We were in the jeepney returning from an appointment and we met a less active member. She had given us an idea of her address but it wasn't exactly right and she said when we go and vist her to just ask people in that area where she lived. So, on Sunday we decided to go and look for her to bring her to Church. Anyway's, on our quest to look for her we bumped into this drunk guy. He came over to us and started talking to us in English so I asked him if he knew where this one person lived. He was all happy (in a drunk way) and started to show us the way so we followed him - keeping in mind he is drunk! We come to this one house and he shouts out, "Hey your friends are here, you have visitors!" The lady tells us to come inside, but strangely, it isn't the lady we saw on the jeepney, it's a different person. Aaahhh??? She invites us in and starts speaking English. I respond in Tagalog and we start having this big conversation of why I am here in the Philippines. Anyway, we were able to share part of the first lesson, get a return dinner appointment and commit them to read the pamphlet of Lesson 1. Astig. Well, in the end we did not find the person we had originally set out to look for but we were blessed to get two new investigators and a dinner appointment.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Life is good and I'm now in my 9th month here. The language is coming along well and Elder Cortezano and I are doing good.
Take care and give my love to the Whanau. Please tell the grandparents and Uncle Rick thanks for the emails. Love you heaps.
Elder Chadderton
P.s. The software on this computer doesn't agree with my camera. I'll try sending some pictures next week.
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