Hello everyone!
Well another week has come and
gone! Pretty sweet! Well the Philippines is crazy! Tagalog is a pain but I am
slowly learning. I think being in Rajahmundry for the past year has prepared me
a lot for being here. There is hardly any English there so here it is basically
the same. Its amazing how every trial in the mission prepares you for the next
one. The trials of my mission are just building off of each other. Its weird.
Anyway. I have no idea what the heck is going on here but everytime we end up
teaching someone it ends up being worth it. Sometimes I am hard hearted and I
get really frustrated so I decide that its pointless to say anything because
they won't understand me anyways but then I get into the lesson and the spirit
tells me to stop being a Jew and teach them, And then I am happy and life is
good again. It is an emotional roller coaster that I have been riding for 90%
of my mission. Good stuff. The missionaries here are all way cool and fun.
Except they all listen to EFY music so sometimes I want to kill myself. Its all
good though. I am getting used to it. Just a heads up. If I ever ask you to
send me EFY music I want to you scold me nicely. Haha thanks.
Well yeah, The food here is
okay I guess. I'm not gonna lie, Indian food is amazing. The food here has like
0 spice. Its gross. Just kidding. I had barbecue chicken last night at a
members house and cried. But still everytime we prepare in the apartment I have
to go out and buy some chilli powder. Man I miss chicken curry. But they have
pork and beef here so I can't complain!
Our area is hard but there a
lot of inactives that we are working with. We are trying to find new
investigators and we found a few formers. They are way nice people. None came
to church but this week we will try to help them with that. We had an entire inactive
family come to church yesterday so that made it all worth it! They are all
extremely nice people here. Just to give you an idea, A sister in church gave a
talk in mostly English yesterday and I am pretty sure the Bishop asked her to
do it just because I don't know Tagalog. Haha and then all the members asked me
to learn Tagalog after it hahaha working on it.
Well Life here is swell. Thank
you for all your prayers. I can definitely feel the blessings pouring in. So
many amazing things happen! I am praying for you all every day. I honestly
think my testimony of prayer has become the strongest. I have absolutely no
doubt whatsoever that God is listening and will always answer our prayers. Love
you all. Have a good week!
Elder Checketts
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