tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83935709912493990792024-02-07T19:16:37.951-08:00Mabuhay! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954473906211306111noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393570991249399079.post-24774935118462669832016-01-04T05:47:00.002-08:002016-01-04T05:47:26.884-08:00Good Times! 1/4/2016<br />
Hello Again! Here are a few more pictures from life here in the Philippines. Explanations are in the captions. Coming up in another post will talk about Christmas and New Year celebrations. We hope your holidays were happy and filled with wonderful family memories!<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went on a visit with the District President, to see Brother<br />Torres. He is raising his grandchildren. We have counted<br />at least 6. He is a recent convert and so faithful! They<br />are playing in a sidecar of a tricycle (motorbike).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A beautiful Fiesta FEAST put on by the Miranda Family.<br />Our eyes were bigger than our stomachs! Delicious!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waaaaaaay across a rice field lives a little old woman<br />in a tiny little shack. She takes care of the goats and chickens<br />in return for her tiny little house. No electricity and no water, but it<br />provides shelter for her and her grandson. She has<br />been a member of the Church for many years, but has a<br />very hard time getting to church due to health concerns.<br />We had such a nice visit with her!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meet the extended Umlas Family. The matriarch, Nanay Umlas,<br />is seated on a chair, second from the left. She never<br />misses a Sunday at church. Her leg is twisted and looks so<br />sore to walk on, but she goes without complaint. We got to<br />join in at a Family Home Evening one evening. Lots of fun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Elder Vuetibau, an elder that served in<br />our zone several months ago. We became very<br />close with him and we admire him. He is a<br />wonderful Elder. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of our great sisters, Sister Sarfraz and Sister McMillan.<br />Sister Sarfraz is from Pakistan and has an amazing story about<br />growing up in the Church in her country. She comes from a strong<br />family who have endured through persecution. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for the bonka boat to take us across the river<br />to an investigator living on an island. The "driver" pulled the<br />boat across with a rope that was attached to poles on each side of the river.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We're off! 5 pesos per person each way, which is<br />about a dime.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is Sister Cora, the woman that lives on the island<br />with her sons. She became a widow at a young age. We loved the chance to help teach her about the Gospel.<br /><br />(Keep scrolling down. I can't figure out how to get the below pictures up higher! They won't behave!)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Later that day we got to meet a new investigator. We were<br />excited to get to know Sister Canlas and her sister.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have introduced you to the Dorimon Family before. <br />Sister Dorimon, in the black sweater, built a new house since the<br />first post where you met them. Her daughter (the one holding<br />the pamphlet), has now joined the Church. Hooray! We love<br />this family!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I hope this movie works, but you probably<br />have to use your imagination. Imagine a<br />dirty river below and a rickety bridge that <br />swings as you walk. I have talked<br />about this bridge before. It should be<br />called "Faith Bridge" since it takes<br />a lot of it to get across. It helps to look<br />straight ahead, not down!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Nanay Dorimon's husband. His job is to make coal<br />for people to cook with. Imagine doing this all day in<br />this severe heat!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the fun things we get to do sometimes<br />is to deliver mission calls to prospective missionaries. Who do you think is more excited- mom or missionary?It was a toss up! Most mission calls here are to servein the Philippines as there are 21 missions here and some<br />are not open to foreigners.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954473906211306111noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393570991249399079.post-66706066268537260122015-11-15T20:04:00.000-08:002015-11-15T20:04:21.361-08:00Long Time Coming!<br />
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Hello Everyone!<br />
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I know, it's been a while. As a matter of fact, it has been so long that I think the best way to do some catching up is through pictures and small captions, so I'm planning to do a few different topics and they may come in a variety of posts. The pictures will definitely be random! We'll see how this develops and if the internet cooperates. My blogging skills should also be incorporated in the equation. I lack many skills in that category!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some have a dog tied up in their yard and some have...a carabao!<br />He was mean looking too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Okay, I admit it. I had feelings of wanting to go<br />home when I discovered I had lice one day.<br />Jerome to the rescue! He was willing to hand<br />pick the lice that weren't killed by the<br />shampoo. This was not a fun experience!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jerome and his Lola. It was fiesta time and they<br />prepared a feast for everyone! I know this<br />picture is very dark, but trust me- it was delicious!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to a Filipino cultural centre with the other<br />missionary couples for an activity and I was chosen<br />out of the crowd to try out one of the dances. The point of<br />the dance is to jump in and out of bamboo poles that are<br />clapped together. It is called, tinikling. My feet weren't caught too<br />many times. My dancing partner kept saying, "Faster ma'am!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A wedding in a member's yard. The branch got together to<br />decorate, which was really nice of them.<br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The newlyweds and the oldie weds!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mother of the Bride cooking some of the<br />wedding pancit. Most of the food was cooked by<br />the Mendoza's, the hosts of the wedding.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinalupihan Zone activity. By the way, the house in<br />the background is where the newlyweds from the<br />above picture, live.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everyone brought ingredients and the<br />missionaries cooked the food on<br />site. Two banana leaves were our plates.<br />Our delicious lunch was laid out and<br />the eating began. Hands only please!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All done! It was quite the meal!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is one of our favorite fruits-<br />a mangosteen. You take the top off and<br />then pull the hard shell apart. Inside, the fruit<br />almost looks like a bulb of garlic. The<br />separate little "cloves" are so sweet and<br />delicious!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another one of our favorites- Lanzone.<br />These taste like sweet grapefruit, but<br />with a totally different texture. It also separates<br />into little "cloves".<br /><br /><br />So, that's it for this post! Random, just like I promised!<br />We will try to do a little better about posting more often.<br />We are still loving our time here. We dislike the heat, but love<br />the people! We also love the Lord and love the<br />work we are doing here. It's a great experience that we<br />highly recommend!<br />Till next time...Kita kits! Ingat!</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954473906211306111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393570991249399079.post-23710070236649491862015-08-21T05:50:00.000-07:002015-08-21T05:50:49.051-07:00Our Filipino Family 08/19/2015If it seems that our posts are getting further apart, you would be correct! It is hard to find the time needed to create an update on what we are doing on our mission because we are busy DOING the things on our mission! We never lack for things to do! <br />
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We have met the most wonderful people here, so in this post we thought we would "introduce" you to some of our friends here. For starters we will tell you about the people we go visiting less active members of the church, with. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister Malig is standing in front of a Sari-Sari<br />Store. They are EVERYWHERE. They<br />are home businesses to supplement the<br />family income. You can buy anything from<br />candy and food ingredients to personal hygiene<br />items, like little packets of shampoo.</td></tr>
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This is Sister Malig. She is the Relief Society President (Women's organization in our church), in Guagua as well as a pioneer of the church there. She knows EVERYONE and is always inspired to take us to people who are prepared to come back to church or who just need a visit. She is so much fun to visit with. In the back of the car she talks away with Sister Abella (You'll meet her next), and us, then forgets she is giving us directions. Sister Abella has lovingly nicknamed her "Sister Balik," which means, "Go back." It is no easy feat to turn around on these streets! Many of them are the width of our car with a ditch and a house on either side, along with children...many of them! Mike is a trooper and has become an expert at driving here. I didn't say he LIKES it, but he hasn't killed us yet, so I say he's an expert.<br />
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This is Sister Abella. As you can see here, she is quite talented at avoiding the mud. I, on the other hand, decided to put my foot down to see if we could move faster walking on what I thought, might be surface wet dirt. I lost my shoe and had to fish it out. Bad idea! I should have just followed our trusty partner and stayed up on the cement! I don't want to guess what was in that ditch and luckily none of us fell in there! Sister Abella has lots of funny stories to tell and keeps us all laughing. <br />
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We love visiting with both of these sisters every Wednesday afternoon for about 4 hours. They are so generous with their time and efforts and are super missionaries! We wish we could give them missionary name tags. Both have become very dear friends and we love them both very much! There are so many that we feel so close to in the Guagua Branch. <br />
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This is one of the families we visited. We usually visit up to about 6 families when we work together with Sister Abella and Sister Malig. Edmar is in the center. He is waiting for his mission call and we can't wait to find out where he will serve. Most Filipino's stay in the Philippines. His cousin Heidi, is to the right. Both Edmar and Heidi love to work with the full time missionaries. They are great! They are the only active members of the Church in their families. Edmar's mother and niece are to the left. We loved getting to know both their families a little bit better. They are very kind!<br />
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This is the Bansil Family. What a fun family! Due to some misunderstandings, it has been a few years since they have been to church. We were able to teach a lesson and invite them back to church. We offered to do a Family Home Evening along with the full time sister missionaries. They were excited about that idea. The whole family was there, along with a couple of boyfriends. We had a lesson, games and songs. Of course there was delicious food prepared by the Bansil's. We brought a birthday cake to celebrate two of the Bansil daughter's birthdays. The 10 year old in the pink shirt to the left, hopes to be baptized in about 3 weeks! <br />
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Now we will introduce you to Brother DeGuzman from the Dinalupihan Branch. He is the Elder's Quorum President. His parents were pioneers of the church in Dinalupihan and he grew up as an active member. He also, knows everyone on the church records, so he is great to visit with. <br />
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This is the Miranda Family. Brother DeGuzman grew up with Brother Miranda. They are still very close friends, but Brother and Sister Miranda haven't been to church for a while. Their children come and enjoy Primary and YM. It is time for this family to prepare for the temple to be sealed for eternity. It was a wonderful experience to extend the invitation to come back to church and to look forward to temple blessings! <br />
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Above, is the Barro Family. They are investigating the Church, however, Dinalupihan Branch already considers them active members. They fit right in and are already very involved. Just waiting for a couple more things and they will be baptized! We were there with them to share a Family Home Evening. Seems that wherever we go we are served delicious food, no matter the time. They served a wonderful dinner and we brought the cookies! What a great family!<br />
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Okay, here is our English class in Dinalupihan. They are such fast learners that they will all be fluent by the end of our 10 week class. We wish we could speak Tagalog as well as they can speak English!<br />
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Still in Dinalupihan, these are some of the keyboarding students. Thanks to the Harman Family that provides grants to students learning to play the piano, they were given 5 keyboards to share. After graduation from the course, the kids will get to apply to keep the keyboards! They are very excited and are doing very well. Clarence, the young woman in the blue shirt, has been teaching keyboarding in Dinalupihan.<br />
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And now for Lubao 2nd Branch. This is our "home" branch. We take turns going to each of the 5 branches in our district, but this is our Branch President, President Santos. His wife is on the right, Sister Fe. One of the branch young women, Amcelyn, is in the middle. She wanted to come on visits with us one day and she was great to have along! The Santos' are so dedicated to the branch and look forward to the day when all the less active members come back to church. They try to visit everyone and we love when we can go with them! They also, are so funny and we share lots of laughs with them! They have a peanut butter business they have started and they make a custom batch for us with less sugar. It's delicious! 100 peso's per jar.<br />
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This visit is with Nanay Austria. We love her and we're so excited she is preparing to go to the temple. She is a widow and takes care of mulititudes of grandchildren as well as many others. We hope to be with her when she goes to the temple. It will be an exciting day! Nanay has a grandson, Jerome, that is quite extraordinary and we love spending time with him. He is a returned missionary and never ceases to amaze us. We think he will eventually be running the Philippines.<br />
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Here, we are on our sandbag pathway through the tall grass to get to Ceesar's family. Ceesar is a teenage boy who was introduced to the church through his friend at school. He comes from a very sweet family and we really enjoyed meeting them. Ceesar was just baptized a couple of days ago!<br />
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We are in the middle of a monsoon right now and our S-L-O-W internet is even slower! We are going to have to continue this post at another time.<br />
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We love you all! Thanks for reading!<br />
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Hello loved ones! I haven't written in our blog for 3 weeks or so. Everything is looking so normal to us now that we don't feel there is anything new to write about! The same kinds of things fill up our schedule, but lots of different faces and experiences. I will try filling you in on what is new with us, but it will probably be kind of random. Here goes!<br />
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I'm sure I've mentioned before that there is no such thing as an address? Cities are separated into barangays which are kind of like neighborhoods. Once you find the right barangay, you have to stop and ask people where someone lives until you finally find the right house. Well, ours is pretty easy to find. Just look for the friendly boar that is chained to a tree 24/7, and lives right across<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is Fred. This is not his best side, but he is photo shy. See<br />the picnic table for their "store"?</td></tr>
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the street from us! His owners butcher pigs and sell the meat just laid out on a picnic table in front of their house, so it makes sense that Fred (the boar) would be the marker for their house. No, we haven't bought any of the meat!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While we were walking along this path to visit a member<br />we ran into some animal friends.</td></tr>
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We actually see and hear different species from the animal (and insect), kingdom all day and night long. We have lizards and ants that insist on living with us no matter how hard we try to get rid of them. We don't actually mind the lizards, but the ants are the bain of my existence here! We are used to hearing the roosters crow, the dogs bark (constantly), and the eerie human baby sound of cats meowing. One cat has taken residence in a box just outside our door. That cat is about to give birth, so we are waiting for the big event. Daily, we also get to see some pretty chickens, ducks and roosters and many other fowls of the air. We understand that when the rain really starts coming, we will see fish swimming in the streets! We'll keep you posted on that.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little frog is the size of my pinkie nail!<br />That's another sound we hear at night. There<br />must be a million frogs around our apartment!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Just to let you know, it isn't all work around here! The senior missionaries gathered for an activity and meeting a couple of weeks ago. One of the senior couples, the Wright's, live here and arranged for a carabou ride complete with a cart and woven hat for the riders. They also have a trike, so Mike got to drive a trike and I was the passenger in the side car. It made for some fun! We always love gathering with the other senior missionaries.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This wonderful couple joined the church a few months ago.<br />Their daughter and grandkids are visiting from another city. <br />Notice the window to the left and the shortened doorway?<br />When Mt. Pinatubo erupted it sent a flow of mud and ash that<br />buried many houses. Some people only dug out enough of the<br />mud and ash to occupy it again. Of course, the windows and<br />door used to be at a normal height! Oh, and don't be fooled by<br />the number on the house. Don't go thinking it's an actual<br />address!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All ages LOVE to pose for pictures! Just some cute kids<br />that passed us along our way and stopped for a picture.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister Santos (not her best side either), trying<br />to navigate to a member's house. We are<br />getting a little bit of rain, which means it has<br />cooled down a bit! <br /><br /></td></tr>
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And now for some of our awesome missionaries! We love them and admire the hours of work they do everyday. They are a great example to us. Most are 18-20 years old, some a little older. They are obedient and hard working. They teach with the Spirit and serve others with genuine love and care. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">14 year old Alvin's baptism and the Lubao (that's where we live), <br />elders. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alvin's sister is the taller one of his left. <br />She gets baptized in a couple of days!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last district meeting for these two elders. We<br />miss them!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy Birthday to Sister Ayala!<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">We have talked about the Self Reliance Program. It starts with a My Path Devotional which helps people decide which of the 3 classes they should enroll in: Starting and Growing My Own Business, My Job Search, or Education For Better Work. Sister Irma did an outstanding job facilitating this devotional. Here are some of the students for this batch of the 12 week course.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hard at work figuring out budgets, talents and interests!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Decisions made! These groups are ready to get started.<br />The 3 groups have wonderful facilitators who will encourage<br />them to reach their goals!<br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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If you have made it all the way to the end of the blog, we have some exciting news that did not happen in the Philippines. It happened in New York City and we are SO happy about it! Our son Jacob FINALLY popped the question and Ashlee said YES! Wedding date to be announced soon! We can't wait to have Ashlee as a part of our family!</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD4CFXLKd7_lnctQhaHgmbakAgZvg4BBfC8aoNe_1-lknS0L00Aad9gD5vIrnvRSB5ElUKRbP5X8VmoqGmVzF3acvH2MrYgFf7i1iKiVJf27pSDIx8-WpQU97qW24yO8HplVYOlW8_k-1f/s1600/IMG_0871.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">You probably can't see the horse pulling this wagon of wares, but it reminds me of something from a cowboy movie, so on that note we will say, "Happy trails to you, until we meet again!"<img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD4CFXLKd7_lnctQhaHgmbakAgZvg4BBfC8aoNe_1-lknS0L00Aad9gD5vIrnvRSB5ElUKRbP5X8VmoqGmVzF3acvH2MrYgFf7i1iKiVJf27pSDIx8-WpQU97qW24yO8HplVYOlW8_k-1f/s320/IMG_0871.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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Mabuhay!<br />
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and got to ride in a trike. I have to say- it was pretty fun!<br />
Not too easy to get in and out of, but a fun ride!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I bet some of you are wondering about some of the rules of the road around here. Actually, that has probably not entered your thoughts, but we thought you might enjoy seeing what life is like without the strict safety laws we have in North America.</span></td></tr>
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I had my first ride in a trike which was lots of fun! Usually 3 people fit inside this little side car and one usually rides up behind the driver. We have seen more people squish inside and a couple of people behind a driver, but fortunately for me there were only 2 of us inside on this ride. I can't imagine how another adult would have squished in! It is amazing what these little trikes can carry! Who needs a pick up truck when you have one of these little babies!<br />
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The one picture I wanted to take most was of a family on a motorbike with a little child up in front of his dad, and a mom holding a squirming child behind. Helmets? What are those! We have seen this many times, but they always ride by too quickly for us to catch a picture. We hope you find the following pictures we have spotted on our travels. You might not see this is America!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work we go!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Make up your own punishment!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">We don't just look at the traffic all day, in case you are wondering! Remember we wrote about how we are involved with the Self Reliance program? Here is a graduate! We brought some friends to their restaurant one day. It is in front of their house. They have tables and benches, enormous </span></td></tr>
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pots of delicious food cooking and you can't beat the prices for such good home cooking! This is chicken pancit and it was masarup! You should come for a visit and try some- our treat! This is a thriving business. They have a full menu. <br />
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<span id="goog_193555458"></span><span id="goog_193555459"></span>We went on many teaching appointments since I wrote last, but didn't take too many pictures. It seems that rainy season is beginning. We were in one house trying to teach, when all of a sudden the skies opened up and there was such thunder, lightning and POURING rain on the hot tin roof, that we were shouting at each other to be heard. We finally gave up on that idea. We couldn't hear a thing. I tried including a movie of that, but it was taking forever to load. Guess you miss out on that experience!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We parked out car along the highway and<br />practically had to scale down this concrete wall<br />to get to a house below. You don't get the full<br />effect in this picture. You see the stairs down<br />to the sidewalk level, but there is another wall<br />below that. We had a nice visit with a mother<br />and daughter who have both had strokes. It is<br />such a trial for them!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a bridge over some very troubled water! The water is full<br />of garbage. It's one of those bridges that makes you want to pray <br />before crossing! We visited this brother twice to encourage<br />him to come back to church. He wept at the invitation to come<br />back! It's just WORTH it to cross those scary bridges!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a family that is excited about putting<br />together their family history! They are all working<br />on it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the calm before the storm. I have to mention that<br />it was 40 degrees C this day. There is a humidex reading<br />that lets you know what it feels like with the humidity.<br />That brought it up to 56 degrees C! The sky finally opened up!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a Family Home Evening we got to be a part of.<br />This is only part of the crowd. There is always dinner, a<br />lesson and games. Such fun!<br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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Part of our church humanitarian services is a program called LDS Charities. People (church members or not), with physical disabilities are brought to the church to get assessed for a wheelchair or walkers. It is such a wonderful service that blesses lives! The gym was full of people waiting to be assessed. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the tail end of the day.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">I'll end with a couple of pictures of critters. I know you can't really see anything in this tree, but<br />this tree is filled with bats! It was very cool! The other picture is just a bug that I think is really pretty! Look at that green and it's legs are a shiny gold! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These trees are filled with hundreds of bats! I wish you could<br />see them in those branches, hanging upside down. You're just<br />going to have to trust me!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you see the golden legs on this bug?<br />They shimmer!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">I'll do better on pictures of actual missionary work next time. We LOVE being here and spending time with such wonderful people! We are BUSY every day which is just the way we want to be.<br /><br />Until next time! Ingat!</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954473906211306111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393570991249399079.post-30852552846914104232015-06-07T03:38:00.000-07:002015-06-07T03:38:42.408-07:00All Kinds of Adventures! 6/7/2015<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Mabuhay!<br />
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A very swingy swinging bridge (just don't look down!) and a trip out to Corregidor Island have been two of our adventures since we last wrote, but the adventures never end!<br />
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For starters, meet the Dorimon family, or at least part of them as shown in the picture at right. You know the song, "Over the River and Through the Woods to Grandmother's House We Go"? Well, to get to their house we got to go over a swinging bridge. The elders had told me so much about how broken down and swingy it is that I actually had a nightmare about falling off and into the river, the night before we went on this visit. Turns out that I shouldn't have worried that much! Yes, it is built from scraps and is quite swingy, but I would cross that bridge any day to get to see this sweet family! We also got to hike along a beautiful trail through the woods and along the river, <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful fields!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Lorio, Banjoe and Elder Javier. Banjoe is<br />leaving on a mission soon and loves working<br />with the Elders. This is partway along the trail.</td></tr>
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then up a hill to get to their little nipa hut made of bamboo. Sister Dorimon built it all by herself and is so proud of it! She did a great job! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In front of their house. See the mango the little girl is<br />eating? They just peel the skin off and eat them kind of like<br />apples. It's a great technique!<br /><br /></td></tr>
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7 people live there. It is about 10x10 at most and doesn't have water or electricity which means that they hike along the long trail and over the bridge with large containers of water and do their cooking over fires. At night, they put the sheets that keep the sun's hot rays off them, onto the floor for their bedding. Brother Dorimon is being taught by the missionaries. This makes Sister Dorimon SO happy! More than anything in the world, she wants her family to be sealed in the temple for eternity. That is the reason why their family moved to this area from up in the mountains where it was nearly impossible to attend church. They still do not live too close to the church, so they save what they need for the fare to attend on Sunday's- a large part of their earnings. Such faith! We love them for their beautiful smiles and devotion!<br />
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We got to go on a senior missionary outing to Corregidor Island. We rode over to the island on bonka boats. <br />
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It was so nice to feel the ocean spray as we rode over the waves. Corregidor has been used to defend Manila from enemy attack since the 1500's, but especially during WWII when the U.S. helped defend the Philippines from the Japanese. Tunnels were built that housed a hospital, ammunition and offices. The Philippine and U.S. troops fought bravely for 5 months before the Japanese finally forced them to surrender. The Japanese then marched the prisoners up the island of Luzon (the main island that we live on) for many, many miles in this heat without food or water. Many died. They were marched right through the area we live in. There are markers along the road stating how many miles they had marched by the time they got here- about 85 miles or so. Very sad part of history! Here are some more pictures:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is General McArthur. The statue plaque<br />says, "I Shall Return." Mike says he said the<br />same thing when he left here on his mission<br />40 years ago- haha! </td></tr>
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We were able to attend a couple of baptisms in the last couple of weeks. Seems that we always have some other commitments such as the English class we offer, and miss baptisms. Our luck changed this transfer and we were able to attend two baptisms. Sister Irma was baptized in Lubao 1 and Sister Anita was baptized in Guagua. Both were so excited and bore beautiful testimonies right after their baptisms. It was so nice to be there!<br />
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We have been asked to work with the Self Reliance program for the Philippines Olongapo Mission. It is a training program to help members become self reliant spiritually and temporally. It is an incredible program that teaches everything from time and money management to job searching, getting a higher degree of education and starting a business. The courses are run by facilitators that are very dedicated to helping people improve their situations. After graduating from the Perpetual Education course students can apply for loans, through the church, to continue their education in a degree program or technical course, greatly increasing their chance of finding a good job. It is expected that they will do what they can to pay back the loan so others can then benefit. We are excited to be involved with the Self Reliance Program throughout our mission. This picture is from a graduation that happened a week ago. It was the first batch in our district, to graduate. This young woman finished the Perpetual Education training and is enrolled in college.</div>
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Here are some other random pictures that don't really have much of a story to go with them. The captions will tell the stories:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every time I see this little boy I think about our<br />grandson Edmund. They are the same age. He<br />is so cute! He was up front in primary, getting<br />a little bit of help in reciting an Article of Faith.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to the mission home to drop off some departing<br />missionaries.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just had to stop and walk into the ocean in Morong. <br />We hope to go back!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This monkey and it's entire family were on the road and<br />along the side of the road. I got a good picture of this one<br />looking at me too, but I think this picture is cool!<br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was taken while walking out to someone's<br />house to go teach them. It was way back in a field.<br />Seems to be an appropriate picture to close with!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE END!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Until next time! Stay well and know that we are thinking of you! Kita kits tayo!</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954473906211306111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393570991249399079.post-71973041566038715412015-05-28T02:43:00.001-07:002015-05-28T02:44:04.673-07:00Time is Flying By! 5/27/2015<br />
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What a week we have had. Time seems to be flying by! Mike and I are having so much fun together. 24/7 is working just great for us! We love the variety of things we do everyday and continue to meet the most wonderful people! We are so thankful to be here!</div>
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It's so much fun to show them the picture on my phone.<br />
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We were involved with a service project that the Guagua Branch did. So many members showed up to clean up the school grounds of the school next to the chapel. The principal was so grateful! By the time we left it looked like a new place! It was so overgrown with weeds and long grass. Summer break is almost over and school starts in a week. This school is K-12 and has 2,000 students. The classes have up to 60 students in them! That one principal is in charge of all those grades and levels of learning. She's a busy woman! Of course it was another hot day, but everyone worked so hard starting at 7am and didn't stop until 11am. The principal of another school in the area saw us and begged for us to go do the same thing over at his school. He was actually crying when the branch president told him we would be happy to do that! We head to that school this Friday. How wonderful is it that the church can gather so many willing volunteers in a matter of minutes? We love it! </div>
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Here are some pictures from this day of service:</div>
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We went on lots of teaching appointments this week. We love sharing the gospel and meeting such incredible people! We are having some great experiences and are learning so much from them! New lessons about faith, humility, love, generosity to name a few things. Here are pictures of some of the people we met:<br />
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a couple of nephews. Her husband works in Manila<br />
and comes home some weekends. He is a returning member<br />
of the church and Narissa is being taught. We got to teach her<br />
the first lesson. We are showing her a video.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Elder Wood with a couple of members from the Lubao<br />
Branch. Isn't this the greatest nipa hut?</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Although related, there are 3 different families represented in this picture. <br />
3 whole families are getting baptized in June! It is so much fun to teach<br />
outside with such beautiful surroundings!</td></tr>
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feeding their 2 pigs. She saw us, dropped everything and gave us such a warm welcome. Her son Jericho, joined us for a visit and lesson. Brother Manloc was in the fields. During our visit we found out that Jericho will not be attending school this year due to a lack of funds for school registration. Jayson, the member we visited with, was able to tell them that the branch was using fast offering to cover school tuition for those in need. They were SO happy!</div>
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It is amazing how many children are not put into school due to a lack of money for registration or uniforms. There are no laws to keep children in school and some drop out in elementary school. Of course, it will be so much harder to rise above their poverty without education. We wish everyone would take advantage of the Self Reliance programs offered by the Church. We are going to be doing more work with that program. </div>
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<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">We always do visits with a member, but we also picked up<br />
4 great elders along the way and a dozen donuts to go visit<br />
a teenage boy that has stopped going to church. We had a fun visit<br />
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<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">We have seen many creative games being played by the kids.<br />
This is a game of Stones. We aren't quite sure about the rules,<br />
but the 3 stones are lined up and then 1 tries to hit them. When<br />
the stones are hit they all run to the next spot and try to hit his<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">That's it till my next post! We are happy, HOT (I know, I said I wouldn't complain about that anymore!), busy and thankful to be serving here in the Philippines ! The Church of Jesus Christ is a message of hope and we love sharing that message! We miss you and love you!!<br /><br />Kita kits sa linggo!</span></td></tr>
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I thought I'd start out our blog with the highlight of the last two weeks since I last wrote. Last Friday we were able to go with the Mendoza family, to the Manila Temple. Brother Mendoza was not active for many years and his wife was not a member until one year ago. Brother Mendoza is now in the bishopric and Sister Mendoza serves in YW. He is a rice farmer and she does what she can to help out. Such a humble family! They were SO happy to know they can be together forever and it was such a pleasure to see their joy and to be with them on their special day! We're loving every minute here! We get to be among such wonderful people that we love so much! We fall into bed each night and wake up tired, but somehow we are given all the energy we need to get everything done the next day. <br />
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We have started teaching a couple of English classes in different towns that are a lot of fun. I can't remember if I've already said this, but there is a funny expression here that people use all the time. They say they are getting a nosebleed if too much English is spoken to them and when they try to respond in English. People laugh at other's attempts to speak English, so people are really scared to try. Of course, being on the other end of the stick, we understand the feeling of being afraid to try to speak a new language. The thing is that most people really WANT to learn to speak English as it can qualify them for better jobs for much better pay. We promised that there would be "No Nosebleeds" in our English classes! One of the classes has been running for 2 weeks, and the other one for only 1 week. We are having so much fun with the classes and people seem to really enjoy them. We teach conversation, proper pronunciation and grammar. It is open to members of the church and non-members. Here are a few pictures of our English classes:<br />
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We love visiting members of the church that don't come anymore. They are always so friendly and open. We love sharing a lesson and visiting with them and we always commit them to come back ("babalik") as they are missed! Some of them are coming back and it's always so exciting! I need to get more pictures of those visits, but here are a couple:<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to go see the Galveson Family. It was Fiesta time in<br />their barangay (community). Their daughter Shyra, was getting<br />her hair and makeup done for a beauty contest which is always a<br />big thing in the Philippines.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are the Tiksay's. We are in front of their summer<br />house. It's called a bahay kubo. I wish we could bring one home! Sister<br />Tiksay is a teacher and has 57 grade 4 students! They split the class<br />when they have 60 students. Brother Tiksay is a rice farmer.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Here are a couple of pictures from a fiesta parade that happened in our barangay. When the parade participants would see me taking pictures the ENTIRE parade would come to a stop and pose. I kept having to tell them to move on! Everyone wanted to be sure to be included in a picture. This was especially true for the 'bukla's" (gay) participants, who would really put on a show for the camera!</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha3FRwIr66PEv3ErKy5_ItWfcTUJY8PZjpCtnxxvaBdUJnPLFWgyck6v9M52PazkJA6qjyyGkYEyM481ozPIMsWyTZp-MKEzLI-DtEagJnATVSeSkAVowjkaGl7O9Llm4Lss4-Y1v0_Fdq/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: start;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha3FRwIr66PEv3ErKy5_ItWfcTUJY8PZjpCtnxxvaBdUJnPLFWgyck6v9M52PazkJA6qjyyGkYEyM481ozPIMsWyTZp-MKEzLI-DtEagJnATVSeSkAVowjkaGl7O9Llm4Lss4-Y1v0_Fdq/s320/IMG_0003.JPG" width="320" /></a><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Fiesta King and Queen<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">We love going for walks around the neighbourhood and feel like tourist attractions when we do. By now, the kids know that we have a camera and they love posing for pictures and then looking at the pictures. We have a basketball court right near our house which is always in use. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The kids play in barefeet or flip flops and can run as fast as kids in North America<br />wearing expensive, high tech running shoes! Notice the courtside<br />houses. Box seating!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See the bag of brown liquid? They sell Coke in plastic bags.<br />There are little stores that people run out of their<br />homes that are called sari-sari's, for extra income.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mga kaibigan (friends)<br />These little kids were playing a game when we walked by. <br />They were trying to get a paper plate with the centre cut out, over a<br />bottle. Their own version of ring toss.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">We love working with the young missionaries. They are so great! We go to the zone and district meetings and we also get to go to appointments with them sometimes. <br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">These Sister Missionaries had one oc the cleanest apartments<br />on apartment check day. This was supposed to be the "funny<br />face" picture, but apparently I'm the only one that got the memo!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Birthday dinner for Elder Hunt. He's from New<br />Zealand and we found some New Zealand beef that<br />we cooked up for the 4 elders in his apartment. <br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Elder Furniss (from Utah) and Elder Fepulea'i (from Australia).<br />The small guy in the middle is Jayson, a local member that<br />is leaving on his mission in 2 weeks. He went out visiting with us.<br />We brought some birthday cake to Elder Furniss and enjoyed it<br />along the highway together!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">The Elders and Sisters in our zone. We have 1 Canadian<br />in our mission and he's in our zone! (Elder Wetterstrand from<br />Lethbridge).<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">We buy all our fruit and vegetables in the palenke's- the outdoor markets. Fresh mangoes, bananas, watermelon, coconuts, string beans, eggplant, tomatoes, sour sop, and other fruits that we can't remember the names of. Everything is so fresh and delicious! We could also buy our meat and fish that have been laying out on tables in the hot sun, but we choose to go to the real markets for that! We also love running down to the fresh pandasal shops. Pandasal is fresh from the oven- buns (or rolls). All the breads from the bake shops along the street, are so good!<br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Our favorite coconut vendor. He is a master with the machete!<br />The husk is off in seconds and then he leaves enough on<br />for us to get it home and cut a little hole in the top to pour out the juice<br />and scoop out the tender meat inside. It's so maserup!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Two of the vendors where we bought our mangoes and bananas. <br />They are so much more tasty than what we buy in North America!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The members are so good to us here. They invite us to many events in their homes. This was a debut (18 yr. old birthday party). <br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">The Ibanez parents with the birthday girl!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">We see these types of signs everywhere! They are all over the jeepny's (I think the real spelling is jyipni), buses, family cars, motor trikes, stores, etc. Christian faith in the Philippines is publicly expressed in ways that you would never see in America.<br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Well, that's it until next time! I can't promise weekly posts anymore, but we'll do our best. We are so happy here. It is such a privilege to serve here as missionaries. We love sharing our testimonies of Jesus Christ and we love the people! We also love you! Thanks for taking time to stay in touch with us! Ingat!</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954473906211306111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393570991249399079.post-3911030120700408462015-05-03T17:10:00.000-07:002015-05-03T17:11:37.652-07:00105 degrees in the shade...wait, what shade? 5/3/2015<br />
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Okay, okay...I think you get the point that we are melting here, so I will spare the complaining again. I have told Mike that I will never complain about the cold again, but he doesn't believe me and I probably don't either. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are 2 of our great missionaries Elder Villamer and Elder Hunt.<br />
We got to go with them to teach Irma. The woman on the left<br />
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Another great week as missionaries! We are meeting so many sweet people. We are so thankful for this opportunity! We love going out with members of the church and finding people that haven't been to church for months. They always appreciate our visit and we love meeting them. Here are a couple of pictures we took on one of our visiting days:<br />
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This is the home of Erlinda. She is in the pink shirt and is the grandma to all these teens! They either have deceased parents, parents that work abroad or a combination of both. My favorite was Jericho who is 13. He is hiding behind Clariza, the girl in the greed striped shirt. Our visiting partner is Sister Malig, the woman I am leaning on, with the red shirt. I don't know where everyone fits in this house, but it seems to be filled with love! When we left this house we met another woman who saw our name tags and told us she was a member of the church who had moved to the area 5 years previous and had just never bothered finding the church. We hope she comes back as well!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brother Malig picking the perfect apple mango for us! It's like<br />
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Sister Malig and Sister Abelya came visiting with us and they would squeal with delight after each visit. They would just say, "This is so much FUN! I love this!" We would never be able to do the visits without them as there are absolutely NO addresses here. Have I already said that? You have to find out the barangy (neighborhood), and then just stop and ask people where the family lives. There is no rhyme or reason to where people build houses. Of course they also help us with the Tagalog. We go visiting for hours and love every minute. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Sister Malig and her husband as well as<br />
Sister Abelya. Brother and Sister Malig have lived here<br />
for years and have SO many fruit trees. They gave us<br />
some apple mangoes- who knew there were so many types of mangoes!<br />
They also picked some of the mangoes we are familiar with. YUM!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful rooster. Yes, it is on a<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Ronnie and Michelle on their wedding day.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We were asked to speak at a wedding this week. Ronnie is a returned missionary and Michelle is getting baptized in a couple of weeks. They asked us to give them advice. We spoke in English, but they said they understood. Who knows!<br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We always have some meetings to attend. This was MLC-<br />
Missiionary Leadership Council, held in Olongapo.<br />
It was very uplifting!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just a funny story of the week: Our English classes will begin in one of our branches, this coming Saturday. We designed some flyers that took a lot of time for us to do, but we thought they looked very professional. We took them to the printer and he told us they would be ready the next day. When we picked them up we thought they were great, then later we looked at them again and realized the printer must have lost a couple of the words when he was moving it around on his computer or something, so he just put his own word in there instead of asking us. Now the flyer says: "Learn conversation, proper grammar and conversation." The second "conversation" was supposed to say "pronunciation!" Now we sound like we don't know English!<br /><br />That's it for another week! We love you and miss you! Ingat!<br /></span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954473906211306111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393570991249399079.post-26098953415128566522015-04-28T15:50:00.000-07:002015-04-28T15:53:15.420-07:00National Day of Service 04/28/15Mabuhay! <br />
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No one actually says that here, but that IS the way to say hello and I love that word! Speaking of words...our struggle with the language continues, but unte unte (little by little), we are learning it. People usually speak a little bit of English (konte lang- just a little). There is a saying and an action here, that the people use if we speak too much English to them. They say "nosebleed," which means that their head is going to explode inside which will cause a nosebleed. They have a gesture that goes along with that. So, since we don't want to give everyone nosebleeds, we are trying so<br />
hard to learn. Everyone loves helping us, so we have many teachers! Most of the time WE are the ones who feel like we'll get the nosebleed! Everyone speaks Tagalog, but there is another language people use in our area called Pampangan, and they try teaching and speaking that to us as well. We just tell them we can only learn one language at a time! The 2 languages are very different!<br />
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Still on the subject of language, many people would love to learn to speak English as it will help their job prospects at call centers and other better paying jobs. We have gotten the official okay to start English classes and hope to have it up and running by next week. We are busy planning lessons, games and songs to use. The District President promised us that if we teach English, WE will learn Tagalog. We hope people will have enough time to attend the class.<br />
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The youth are amazing! How we love the youth and the young single adults! In one of the branches, the teenagers organized a family history workshop. There weren't any adults there, but there were probably 12 teenagers from 9-4, loading their family history into Family Search. The internet is awful everywhere, so they had to be so patient. They were all totally engaged in this effort and soaked in all that was taught by the young woman in charge. They were on the phone with their parents, getting names to type in and loved seeing the family history fans.<br />
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The normal wake up time is with the sun and the crowing roosters- around 5:30am. Our branch planned a service project that started at 6:00 on Saturday morning! We picked up garbage in one of the barangy's (neighborhoods). The barangy captain claimed that most of the garbage came in from an outside community, but there really aren't any anti-litter campaigns here. We see garbage being tossed all the time. A favorite pastime is burning garbage piles and rice stubble. We breath in a lot of smoke as there are always fires going. Here are some pictures of our service project.<br />
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After the service activity we had a lunch that was masarup! I got to help with the string beans. They grow them long here! We are at a member's house. I guess this is a good spot to talk about some of<br />
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the food here. We always go to the palenke's to get our mangos and bananas. Mike has been telling me about them forever and his is right- they have more flavour here and we can't get enough of them! We also love getting fresh coconuts. They husk them with their machete's very quickly and then we bring them home, cut through the top, drain the water to drink and then spoon the soft coconut flesh out- YUM!! That's one of my favourite things! They are 20 peso's which is about .50. There is so much sold in the markets, but the meat has been out in the hot sun for who knows how long. We choose to get that in the grocery stores. I've been trying to cook<br />
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some filipino dishes, but I'm certainly not up the calibre of our Winnipeg friends! Oh, another thing we love is the hot pandasal. Those are little hot buns that are so tasty!<br />
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One of the areas we work in is called Guagua. It has a town centre that is quite nice. Here are a couple of pictures from Guagua. One is a government building and the other is a picture of the jeepney's lined up and ready to go!<br />
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Our little city of Lubao has a VERY old Catholic church in it. I will include some pictures of it. The plaque tells the history- so interesting!<br />
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Finally, we were able to visit with Steve and Bette Gibson, my parent's neighbors in Provo. They run a bunch of schools that teach people how to run their own businesses and how to take their ideas and help them to grow so they can provide decent income for their families. It's a wonderful program and runs with the Self-Reliance program. It was great to see them and to hear about the wonderful things they do for the people here and in Mexico (mainly).<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I should probably explain this week's blog subject. From what we have seen, there is basically one breed of dog here- MUTT. They all look alike and they all look hungry as they just wander the streets reproducing. This is not a place for animal lovers as there are so many dogs, cats and other animals (besides fighting cocks), that are starving and unloved. We confess that we are not lovers of the dogs and cats whose barks and human-like cat crying, that we hear all night. We also wake up to the roosters in the mornings, but we don't mind that as much! Now onto lighter subjects...</span><br />
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Many members and friends gathered together in one house near where we live, for a Family Home Evening. We had a wonderful lesson, games, and we introduced the primary song, Smiles. The lesson was about the importance of families and treating each other with love. We got the gyst of it even though it was all in Tagalog. There's always enough English thrown in to make it sort of understandable. They call it Tag-lish. One game we played was a new way to play Simon Says and it was really fun! That is a good way to teach us Tagalog. I used the missionaries as props for teaching Smiles and everyone was having fun. Filipino's LOVE to laugh and have fun, one of their many traits that we are falling in love with! There is ALWAYS food at their gatherings and we love that too!<br />
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Another highlight is our keyboarding class. There are very few piano players here, so sometimes the church chorister will just stand up and sing the first line of a song, then says "go!" and then people all sing the melody at that pitch. We are getting piano lessons going in a couple of branches. The youth are VERY enthusiastic about it. There is a family in Oregon that provides the Harman Grant Fund. They fund electric keyboards and teaching materials to countries and people that would never be able to afford instruments and training on their own. Another missionary couple got the program started here last January and I'm continuing with it. I'm very thankful to them for getting the program going here! Three of the branches we work with, have music programs we are helping with and we are loving it! The students practice so hard and are such fast learners! The Church has developed a very easy program to teach. It is just wonderful!! Here is one of our classes we work with. <br />
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On Wednesday we went with about 8 other<br />
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was adding to their house and we went out to help mix the concrete (with shovels), haul concrete blocks, and chop wood for their cooking fires. They grow rice, and vegetables. Here are a few pictures from that day:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Just a few roosters hanging out by the<br />outdoor kitchen and some cement mixing<br />on the side of the kitchen.</td></tr>
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We all had a great time working and got a LOT done. The walls went up fast- just cinder blocks and cement, then they use a trowel to put more cement on for smooth walls. The family made us a feast to thank us! A really fun part was being able to sit on a caribao.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Here is the house under construction, <br />It will be a wonderful house!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">We were invited back out to the Pangang's again on Friday for their joint birthday party and daughter's graduation party. An activity that is enjoyed here is Videoke. From what we can tell, filipino's love to sing. We have heard many beautiful voices and noticed lots of place to rent "videoke" equipment for gatherings. Again, some delicious food was prepared. Masarup!<br /></span></td></tr>
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The Young Women in both of the Lubao branches asked me to teach them to make cookies. This fulfilled one of the Personal Progress requirements. We haven't met many people who have ovens, so they had never made cookies before. We had a lot of fun! They loved it! They made enough cookies to bring around to less active YW. We made peanut butter cookies and snickerdoodles.<br />
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We were able to attend a missionary farewell on Saturday night. Many young people go on missions here. It is so wonderful because they return and become leaders in the branches with their learned skills from their missions. It is VERY rare that a missionary is called to serve outside of the Philippines. This is a young woman named Princess that is leaving for her mission to Laoag this week. She will be a great missionary! <br />
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Here are some pictures of our apartment (more of a townhouse) and views from our window. We've been subject to a few "brown outs" this week- a government enforced way to ration electricity. One night the water was turned off as well.<br />
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Travelling on our way back home after a meeting we were behind this little piggy on a motorcycle tricycle. He's going to market in style! These trikes are more like miniature trucks and carry every imaginable type of freight.<br />
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It has been an eventful week here for us. We had a zone conference, went on a senior missionary tour cruise on a yacht, got our driver's licenses, moved into our own apartment in our zone, went to church once, went to a member's house for dinner, bought groceries, drove a car, have met our neighbors, rode on a Jeepney, did cleaning checks on missionary apartments, went out with the elders and many more things. We are trying to figure out how to serve best and adapt to the culture as quickly as possible. We still have a long way to go, but it is coming and we are enjoying the adventure!<br />
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We were glad when Holy Week was over. There was a ton of traffic and lots of places were closed. I am not including a picture, but we would see processions constantly for 2 days. On Good Friday we saw groups of men that would whip themselves on their backs over and over as they walked. Their backs were covered with blood. That is their penitence. It is just horrible. Stephen commented that it makes going to the bishop look easy!<br />
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We didn't get General Conference until this weekend because of the 14 hour time difference, so we went to church in our area even though we were still living at the mission home at the time. We were waiting for the couple in our apartment to move to the office. It was nice to meet some of the members. The Branch President asked us to introduce ourselves and bear our testimonies. We had everything written down and spoke in Tagalog. I don't know if anyone understood us, but we made that attempt! We saw lots of smiles, so we take it that they got a kick out of hearing our bad Tagalog! <br />
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We were invited to dinner at the Lubau 1st Branch President's house. Their daughter had gotten married in the temple the day before and we think they were having people over for a celebration after we left. It was the most delicious food! They had killed a goat and chickens for the feast. Masarup! Their house was in the country, so we got to see people working in the rice fields with their caribou.<br />
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First thing on Monday we were able to get our licenses, pack up our brand new mission car (Toyota Corolla sedan) and head to our apartment. We met some neighbours who were watching us move our things inside. They are very nice and have been very helpful. We brought some muffins to one of the neighbour families and came back with some delicious lumpia that they insisted we take. It was nice to unpack and get settled! They call this an apartment, but it is more like a townhouse. We have 2 floors- 3 bedrooms (one bed), 2 bathrooms, laundry area which is an outdoor covered area, kitchen and living room that doesn't have any furniture besides a table. We are in a gated area and have bars on all our windows. We are all settled in, but we need to find a couch to sit on. We have air-conditioning in our bedroom and office.<br />
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Tuesday was our Zone Conference. It took us 3 hours to get about 50 kilometers! Our average speed was 15 km/hr. because of bridge construction in 3 places and the fact that 1 lane of traffic turns into 4 lanes and then everyone has to merge back into 1 lane to go over the bridge...oy! Mike handled it like a pro! I have my license, but I really hope I never have to drive! Zone Conference was great. We have a very diverse missionary force. Only 1 Canadian elder that leaves in 2 weeks from Lethbridge- Elder Wetterstrand. There are very few Americans and most go home in 2 weeks. 70% of the missionaries are from the Philippines and others are from Marshall Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong, etc. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tuesday night we met our piano and conducting students. The senior couple that had been teaching the class before, moved to the office. Sister Winters told the students (before we got there), that a real piano expert was going to be teaching them. One person was wondering where I got my music degree from. NO PRESSURE! I don't know where she got that information, but I quickly dispelled that rumor! Nothing could be farther from the truth! I am looking forward to teaching the keyboarding course however and getting to know the youth that are taking the course.</span></div>
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We took Wednesday to do some more shopping and to discover our area. We tried out 2 grocery stores and the palenke which are all the little vendors that sell food and wares out of little stands. They were fun to see. We bought some fresh mangoes from a sweet toothless (very common) lady that loved talking to missionaries. She knew some missionaries from the past. She was impressed that we could speak Tagalog to her. We find that if we put both our brains together we can usually come up with a few sentences! We also found some hot pandesol for 2 peso's a piece. Those are fresh buns that are wonderful! We like walking around in our area and talking to people along the way. <br />
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Thursday was apartment check day. We made it to half our area and it took 6 hours. There was a difference between elder apartments and sister apartments, to put it mildly! All the missionaries have to do their wash by hand. They only have hot plates to cook on and if everything isn't completely clean there are spiders and ants all over the place. To get all their missionary work done and to keep everything clean is difficult. It is so dusty and dirty here so there is always a layer of dirt that needs wiping down twice a day. We also have to boil our water to do dishes as we don't have any hot water. It is easy to get behind, but who wants bugs in their apartment? I had made some banana muffins to bring around to the missionaries, so even though we asked them to do a little better on their cleaning, they were good sports when they saw the muffins!<br />
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Friday we went out tracting with a set of elders. We didn't do very well as they got "punted" on their 2 appointments we were joining them on, but we did get to ride on a jeepney. These are little buses that about 20 people squeeze into. There is no such thing as personal space here! It's pretty funny- people just tell the driver where they want to go and pass the money along from person to person until it reaches the driver, then the driver makes change and it gets passed back down the line back to the person. When people want to stop they just yell, "Para!"and off they go. We practically have to fold in half to get on and off. We also studied language and I spent time trying to get to understand the keyboarding course so I can at least pretend to look like I know what I'm doing!<br />
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Today and tomorrow is General Conference for us. The Saturday sessions were wonderful! We felt like many of the talks were tailored for us- one of the miracles of conference. We have responsibility in 5 branches. Today we went to Lubau, but tomorrow we will head to Dinalupihan and maybe Guagua so we can meet more people. We forget everyone's names. They are hard to remember!<br />
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So, that's it for now. Life is good in the Philippines and we hope it is for you as well!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954473906211306111noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393570991249399079.post-8750991936447893272015-04-03T18:39:00.004-07:002015-04-03T18:39:59.089-07:00What Day Is It? 4/4/2015Mabuhay!<br />
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We made it, FINALLY! We left early on Monday morning and got to LA by 7:30 am. Our flight was supposed to leave at 11:00am, but it was delayed until 10:00pm. Mike told me that was our first taste of the Philippines right there- haha! That delay came with a great treat though- we rented a car and drove up to Camarillo to see Stephen, Jana and Hazel for the day. What fun!!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwcf23hX-o8rvZ4187Ug4h6If184OE_YNf3_ORStf1NQzZHrtakvjJCTcEI8Z3_F2xl9ymJ5ozl_2Eew4Hc_zTXKO2dZfbZI8RC05epULntxgoznY25hC154KTHvXJ2tZwAE8e4MECDJmT/s1600/IMG_0186.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwcf23hX-o8rvZ4187Ug4h6If184OE_YNf3_ORStf1NQzZHrtakvjJCTcEI8Z3_F2xl9ymJ5ozl_2Eew4Hc_zTXKO2dZfbZI8RC05epULntxgoznY25hC154KTHvXJ2tZwAE8e4MECDJmT/s1600/IMG_0186.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a>We completely skipped Tuesday as we flew forward in time and arrived in Manila on Wednesday at 4:00am. We were picked up by a driver and taken to our hotel where we had a half hour nap and then had to get the visa process started. We did get to have breakfast and walk around before we got fingerprinted. Our hotel was in a very nice part of Manila. There are guards with M16's and sawed off shotguns everywhere. Here are 2 guards that were happy to be in a picture. <br />
With the visa process done, our driver took us to a church compound where the Manila Temple and the Philippine MTC are located. We waited there for the Dahle's (Our mission president and his wife), to pick us up and take us to our mission.<br />
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Here we are at the Manila Temple.<br />
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We were exhausted! I slept like a log, but Mike had trouble sleeping that night. We were up at about 5:00 the next morning with our jet lag. We started the day with a meeting over at the mission office and then went out with the missionaries to get our cell phone set up and to get our driver's licenses. That literally took almost all day. Things that should take about 1 hour here, take 10 times that long to do. Driver's license place was closed for Holy Week. The traffic is unbelievable and the driving is insane. We have a brand new Toyota that we wish we didn't have to drive! We'll have to get our license on Monday since they don't open again until then, but we can (unfortunately), drive with our US license until then. Drivers make 8 lanes out of 2 and I'm not kidding! We got our cell phone set up and it only took about 3 hours at the cell phone store- I'm not kidding!</div>
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Next day we had a missionary conference for all the newer missionaries and their trainers. We got to meet so many wonderful missionaries and since there was a branch activity going on outside, we met many great people. It was such a fun day! I got to play the piano for the meeting and then after the meeting I had a bunch of people who wanted to sing around the piano. Filipino's love to sing! One little 13 year old girl sang some pop songs for us, including a local favorite, Mahal Kita Pero. </div>
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We are loving the Dahle's. They are so good to us! We have been staying with them in the mission home until our apartment is ready to move into and it has been such fun! Mike played some basketball with President Dahle, some missionaries and boys from the branch, this morning. I did a great workout with Sister Dahle. It is SO hot here! We sweat all day long, so add some exercise to that and it is hotter than hot yoga at home. It felt so good to get some exercise though. </div>
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Well, it is going to be while before I really figure out how these blogs work. I haven't written about everything, but just know that life is good and we are adjusting thanks to wonderful people around us. We are happy to be here and thankful for this opportunity! By the next time we write we should be in our apartment and full of other kinds of adventures.</div>
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Mahal ko kayo! Paalam!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954473906211306111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393570991249399079.post-35670863081866077642015-03-23T19:51:00.001-07:002015-03-23T19:51:31.597-07:00Well, the adventure has begun! We are officially Elder and Sister Wood. We entered the MTC today! Jacob dropped us off at the curb. We were greeted by volunteers there and then 2 young elders brought us around to the various places we needed to go. Once we had all our supplies, name tags and swipe key we went to our orientation sessions. We met lots of great people all along the way. There were probably about 15 other couples and 2 single sisters. Most are going to Nauvoo, but many other places are represented. We are the only ones going to the Philippines. <br />
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The Mission President of the MTC is President Burgess and Sister Burgess. I knew I recognized her, but couldn't figure out how I knew her. It finally hit me! When I was Stake YW President she was on the YW General Board and came to Winnipeg to train us. We had a wonderful time talking about her visit. I told her how much it meant to us to have them come see us. <br />
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We had to take a classic picture pointing to the map. Here it is! We felt like kids on the first day of school! So far, so good!<br />
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