Hey Mum and Whanau,
It has been another great week here in Tandang Sora. We have been very busy, with the main events of the week being MTC exchanges last Wednesday, a baptism on Saturday and trainers meeting this Tuesday. I don't know why my camera is playing up but I will try and send some pictures. If it doesn't work, I will look for a memory card reader today so I can send them to you. I am doing fine and I'm excited for transfers tomorrow as I will be getting a new companion so I will tell you all about that next P-Day.
On Wednesday when we had MTC exchanges I was put with a missionary from Negros Occidental. He is Ilonggo and still struggles with Tagalog. We went and visited some of our investigators and it was interesting because as I listened to this Elder speaking, I could tell when he would switch between the Tagalog and Visayan language. He is a cool Elder. I also met and Elder TRIAS. If you can, please let the Montesclaros family know of him because he was surprised to learn that they were in my home Ward. I had told him that I was from New Zealand and the first thing he asked was if I knew the Montesclaros familiy. As mentioned earlier, I told him that they were in my Ward. He was shocked and said, "What a small world!" Cool aye.
On Thursday we went looking for this one family. Tamboong. They're an elderly couple and when we arrived at their door, the Nanay let us in and the Tatay was sitting on the couch with his eyes closed. I thought he was asleep for a minute and then he stood up - eyes still closed - shook our hands and explained that he had an eye infection and his eyes hurt if he kept them open so he had them closed. We shared a little message and asked Tatay a question and we weren't quite prepared for his long response. He just talked and talked and talked and we were there for about an hour and a half. Funny thing, because the Tatay talked so long the Nanay ended up falling asleep. Oh man!
Sunday is always a good day. We had another great turn out at Church with our investigators and our less actives attending. We had 8 investigators and 16 less actives come. Just for your information, to be counted as an active member of the church after being less active a person is required to attend church 4 times in a row. The work is going well and we have 2 baptisms on December 1 - cool - then another one on December 8th. I just hope I can do everything that is needed to see them enter the waters of baptism.
Like I mentioned, on Saturday we had a baptism and it was an 8 year old girl from a less active family in our area. It is not counted as a missionary baptism but we attended it because the family is awesome. Her name is Rebecca Ramos and it was good to see her family back at church. The dad also attended the confirmation on Sunday. Awesome!
Yeah, so on Monday, I received a call from the AP's that I'll be training again, but I had already been told that by President. They said that we had trainers meeting on Tuesday morning so, on Tuesday I woke up at 5:30 a.m., had a shower and was out the door by 6:20 a.m. - right on time! I met up with one of the other Elders that will be training too and we had breakfast at Macca's and then caught a taxi over to the Mission home. In the trainers meeting we went over the training program and then we went back home. There are 7 Elders that will be training and 9 Sisters. That's a lot of new missionaries. Cool aye! It was funny seeing the newbies freaking out because it will be their first time to train. I was a little bit more relaxed because this is my third time. Next week I will send the details about my new companion.
It will be sad to see Elder Braind leave but it will be fun to train a new missionary. I haven't received any package as yet from President. With transfers tomorrow it is going to be a very busy day. Oh, and about Thanksgiving, I do know that we have a dinner appointment tomorrow night to celebrate it.
I love you all Whanau. Kei te aroha au ki a koe. Ingat kau lagi. Mahal ko kayo.
Elder Chadderton
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