Hey Mum & Whanau,
Yep, just as the subject title says, "FLOODS!"
Thanks for your emails and pictures. I love seeing your beautiful faces. Wow, the Olympics are now over for another four years hey and New Zealand's the B.O.M.B!
Okay, so for an account of my week, we started with floods and last Monday night when I emailed you it was pouring with rain and the streets had turned to flooding and just before we left to go home the weather had calmed down so that was good. We got home and it just started to pour down again and it poured all night and we had thunder and lightning too and it was not good. Not much sleep that night!
On Tuesday we woke up, did our studies, ate lunch, got changed and then went out side to go out and work and it was about 1:00 p.m. We walked down this one street and the kids were playing in the floods because school was out and the rain just wasn't easing up at all. Hilarious! We turned around to try another path to get through the floods but we couldn't make it soooo, because of the rain and floods we weren't able to go out. We decided to just go home and due to not sleeping well the night before, we were able to catch up on some sleep from about 2:30 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. When we woke up we braved the floods as we had a dinner appointment at 6:00 p.m. and the family had prepared a feast - spare ribs, my favorite. They dropped us home in their car after so that we didn't have to go out in the rain and floods. That was nice.
Wednesday it was still raining but the majority of the flooding around our area had disappeared and we went out to work and had a great day. We got to teach a few lessons and met some new investigators and we found some less actives. It was a good day despite the fact that we almost got flooded out but we just soldiered through it all. It was an awesome day talaga.
Thursday was a great day as well. The rain stopped and the sun finally came out. We went to this one area, a palengke, and were able to visit and teach several families. When we arrived at this one house the family said to us, "Elder's what do you see that is different about our house?" Not being rude but we said, "It's clean!" They were like, "Yeah, we had floods up to the second floor yesterday and we were just able to finish cleaning the house and taking out all the water!" I was shocked. We shared a lesson with them and then we invited them to come to Church. These are good times as a missionary. We had a dinner appointment at the second councillors home where we ate chicken fettucini, chicken nibbles, and lumpia (spring rolls). It was sooo good and for dessert we had Mango floats. Family, you should really ask Sister Ramirez to make you some. They are amazing!
On Friday we got called in to do service as the Helping Hands crew was back in effect to help the flood victims. A huge group of people turned up to help put together relief packages for the many flood victims. We were asked to come along because they told us they needed some, "muscle power" because they had over 150 - 50 kilo bags of rice that needed to be unloaded from a truck so my companion Elder Ofahula, Elder Heather and his companion and I went along and took care of the unloading of the rice bags and while we were resting we were told that another truck was soon arriving with another 150 bags. We had a mean workout aye and we got free food and free rice and a lots of other blessings. We also got to meet this famous guy and his name is Eric Ty. Eric served his mission here and now he owns a game show here in the Philippines called, "Showtime." That was cool.
On Saturday we went back to help out with loading the flood relief packages onto the trucks in preparation to have them shipped out to the rest of the country. It was an awesome experience and that night we had dinner with the Relief Society president and her family. So grateful.
Sunday we went to church and we had over 12 less actives attend. We had a great day and after church we went out and worked and met a family who are all members except for the eldest sister. We shared a lesson with the family and told the sister that we were going to baptize her. She will be ready soon.
Today for P-Day we played basketball had District meeting and now we're here doing our emails.
I haven't had any magnums this week because I ran out of money... Hehe. But, with the blessings from the members and the Helping Hands ku-an we have been fine. I withdrew some money the other day just for safety reasons, but I haven't had to use it yet. Cool aye.
I love you all heaps. Take care and know that I love you and that I'm having fun. I hope you like the pictures. :)
Elder Chadderton
P.s. The picture of me and the Filipino guy in the Helping Hand's vest is a guy that said he was one of Jenna's class mates at BYU Hawaii. Small world!
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