Hey Mum,
Thanks for the emails and the freaking huge package. I'm looking forward to getting it. It must have cost you a fortune. Wow!
This week has been surprising and scary at the same time. Firstly, we've had dinner pretty much every night which is awesome. We went to Elder Teh's house for dinner last night. Mum, he is the Area President over the Philippines and is a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. The food was amazing and it was awesome to be in the house of a general authority. He said he had to get permission from our Mission President before he could have us over for dinner. His house is in Masagana 2nd Ward area and we were invited to tag along to dinner as well. It was awesome!
Now for the scary part. As you know, we have transfers tomorrow, and I already knew that I would become a senior companion. Well, I got a text from the Assistant's on Tuesday telling me that I will be, "TRAINING!". Holy smokes, I've been in the Philippines for four months and now I've been called to train a new missionary. But, in district meeting this morning when they were calling out the other announcements on who will be staying or transferring, my name was called out to transfer! So, what this means is that not only will I be training, but I will be transferring as well and I'll be moving into a new area that neither I nor my companion has ever been to. Man oh man!
I was reassured at the training meeting that the Lord has trust in me and that the trainers are called because they are the most elite missionaries. I feel so inadequate. When I was sitting in the meeting yesterday I was surrounded by missionaries that had been serving for over a year. All of them have trained before, they know the language and they've all had a lot of experience as a missionary. Oh man! I know that I'll be taken care of and I keep telling myself, "Whom the Lord calls, the Lord qualifies!"
So Mum, this is my new calling and it's going to be a huge growing experience, huge, but I know that through much fasting, prayer and faith in my Savior Jesus Christ I will be fine. All these experiences will be for my good.
I'm gonna include some pictures for you:
1. Me and another Elder in a trike
2. My zone
3. Dinner at Elder Teh's house
4. Again
5. A birthday party we were invited to
6. Me and Mowgli. I dont know his name but hes a cute little kid.
7. Another pic at the party.
8. Me and two of our Ward missionaries
Sweet as. Mum I'm having fun here. I'm scared about training but I know I'll be fine. I usually work well under pressure. I love you heaps and am so grateful for all you do for me. The pics of the package are mind boggling - chocolate galore! Me and my companion are going to have fun eating that.
I'll update you next week on the haps with my new area and companion and I'll try to send some more pics too.
Love you heaps,
Elder Chadderton
P.s. One of the Ward missionaries told me my blog was cool. Haha!
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