Elder Chase Mikkola

Well everyone I'm still here in inwood. The work is going alright. We had a cool friend rose and her little brother that were going to get baptised. She called Saturday and said that she is no longer Interested in baptism and that she would rather live the worldly life. It kinda broke my heart but it happens so much I know that she will come back at some point and god will provide another friend for us to teach and baptise.  Transfers happened and as far as it goes on where I'm at and who I'm with I'm still in inwood. Im going to miss elder narvato and i love that man so much. He taught me so much about charity and being content with life and what we have. Im excited to go visit him in the Philippines some day! I'm with elder bjornberg. I did get a training call and I guess you could call me his trainer but he's been out for 20 months and he went home from another mission and came back out to NYC. I don't feel like a trainer at all but oh well we are working...

  Well incase you havent heard im still alive. Im in manhattan in a place called inwood training a missionary from the Philippines. I honestly love him so much and helping him with his english has honestly been the funnest part. Every day he has new questions with meanings of words and with grammar and its hilarious. We havent baptized anyone yet but we have taught a decent amount of lessons. Our friends seem to fall off like dead flies. We do have a pretty cool family of 3 (single mom and 2 kids) that are looking to get baptised this weekend so thats cool.  Nothing is new with me. Im just getting over a nasty cold and i seem to be doing alot better. Ive been to the natural history museum two times in the last 3 pdays and its pretty fetching massive. We were there for 4 hours each time and we barely made it to all the rooms. Not even looking at all the different exibits. My favorite though was the dinosaurs. Id say ive grown alot as a person as a missionary and im super excite...