Hey Mum,
How is everybody? We are doing good over here. It has been raining for the past few days and my companion has the flu. He is doing okay and pushing on. I bought me a new umbrella today and got to use it. It is pretty huge and I guess it has to be to fit me under it. Mum, it sounds like you and the family are doing well. Thanks for the pictures and emails. The work is going great and we are finding more people to teach in our new area. It is funny to think that I get lost in this area because it has proper street names and addresses which is something I am not use to since I arrived. It's okay and I manage to get around because I've got an awesome companion.
I've just finished doing my laundry and it was way faster then usual as we have a mini washing machine. I still have to wash some of my clothes by hand to make the whites whiter. We were talking to a member about his mission and he was talking about how they used to use washing machines just to make washing faster on P-Days. He then asked if we had a washing machine and we told him no, so he went out the back of his house and brought out this little portable washing machine and told us we could have it. So cool! It's so funny because I can only fit about four of my shirts in it at a time and my pants, only one at a time... hehe... hilarious! But, hey, it is heaps easier and a lot more effective way to get my laundry done than doing EVERYTHING by hand.
We had zone leader conference this week. We went and 'counseled' with each other and it was great. We have a lot more new zone leaders this transfer and they made all the zone leaders put up their hand that had not been in the mission for a year. There were only four of us. That is four out of twenty-four zone leaders! President DeLaMare said that we are the young and chosen ones. He's the man! I am learning heaps more about the responsibilities of being a zone leader and one day be able to share that knowledge with others when I'm one of the 'older ones' in the mission.
Oh, my companion and I went down to the Eliptical circle for P-Day and that was a lot of fun. We were hanging upside down from a monkey-bar pole and when a big guy like myself does something like that, you do attract a crowd so we had a heck of a lot of eyes looking at us. Hehe! My companion is the man! He has a confidence issue so I'm teaching him how to, "Slazz it" so he doesn't have to care about what other people think about him, but instead he can just get on with the work and do it.
Hey Mum, I met Nanny-Ma Solomon on my mission! You did not tell me that she moved to the Philippines? We went to visit this skinny, little old lady with tanned skin and curly hair. She really was skinny and little. Her name is Rosita and she is a less active member, but only less active because she is too sick to attend church. I taught her about the love of God and read from John 3:16 and then shared my testimony. She knows that the church is true but can't come because she has Pneumonia. Kawawa siya! Mum, she reminded me heaps of what Nanny-Ma Solomon would have looked like if I knew her or met her. Cool aye!
My tagalog is getting heaps better and my English is getting heaps worse. I'm kinda stuck in a rut with my language, where I sometimes struggle with Tagalog but manage to get by, and then when I speak in English I struggle as well. So, don't laugh too much if I come home speaking broken English. (lol)
I am doing good, the works good ,my companion is good and we are doing the Lord's work. Obedience brings blessings but, exact obedience brings miracles. This I know to be true and I am grateful to have the Lord on my side. I am reading in Alma about Captain Moroni and he is the man. By the end of this week I should have completed the book of Alma and once that is done, it won't be long until I have finished reading the Book of Mormon again. I know the Book of Mormon is true and it has been a privilege to read it once again. She's a beauty!
I love you all and thanks heaps for your emails and pictures. Give my love to everybody.
Elder Chadderton
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