We
have been waiting for help with the Filipino way of using family search and
were directed by Elder Parjaro the area 70 we had dinner with last month, to
contact Brother Felvir Ordinario.
Brother Ordinario is a manager in the family search church department in
Manila. He rode a bus for 10 hours to
meet us at Baao and spend the day with us in the Baao church. We had an amazing time with him. He is very competent and was able to help
with most of our issues with the family search work we do here. This is the three of us in the clerk’s
office. We love you all.
While
I was waiting on the highway for Brother Ordinario to arrive Valerie went nuts
with my camera. As you can see the
local rr tracks don’t get used much anymore.
We have seen only one hand cart since we have been here.
On Wednesday I spent 6 hours
with President Botor delivering posters to barangay offices and schools
advertising the August immunization project the church funds for students from
grades 1 to 6 for measles. The church
pays for the project for the whole nation.
President Botor wanted to deliver the posters personally so the
politicians didn’t take credit for the initiative. The picture is of one of the framed posters we delivered. We went to two barangay offices, six schools
who had members as teachers and three school division offices. We only had 20 posters in the box but after
delivering 12 we still had 16 left…go figure.
We counted the posters when we started then recounted when we went to a
division office expecting to give them three for their 15 schools but had 16
left. This is like a loaves and fishes
story. We both still can’t figure it
out.
The bottom of the poster has two logos showing
the churches involvement.
This
is one of the schools we stopped to deliver a poster at to find all the
principals of that division there for a conference.
This
is some of the staff at the La Madella school which is in the baragay we live
in. President Botor is holding the
poster with the principal of the school and other staff.
After
23 years of teaching without missing a day of school for health reasons I began
to brag. Again I am sorry. I got sick on Wednesday and feel terrible
today. I am not good at being sick as
I have had no practice with it. I
went to a walk in clinic this morning but the doctor was not there. I paid the water bill on the way into town
and saw this picture. The chickens are
all alive and on their way to market on this trycie.
We had an appointment this
afternoon in Iriga but I did business up town and stayed in the car until
Valerie was nearly finished with the family history class. It was with a Samoan missionary sister who
was adopted by a father who was himself, also adopted. They had quite a time figuring it all
out. I hope to stay in bed all day
tomorrow because I have to teach a class to stake primary teachers on Saturday
and I have no voice.
We are behind in posting these so I will end
this week with a big thank you to my amazing family who are all supporting us
in many different ways. This is a
wonderful experience for all of us.
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