Another two weeks have blown by. We had to blast into Naga for supplies on
Tuesday. We went right down town. Since I drive it is difficult for me to take
pictures. I have noticed that the roads
are not designed for the traffic. We
were on a main road that is a one way to get onto the very busy street that the
mission office is on. I stopped and
waited until it there was a break and took pictures of it to show how narrow
and winding it is but the traffic still make about three lanes and we get to
where we are going. The driving is
crazy but it works. No one gets upset
when you cut them off. A horn is a
warning that you are going to get cut off and no one is insulted that you would
cut them off. Everyone makes room and
traffic signs and hand painted street lines are only decoration. Here is a main thorough fare.
We
had to go to Bato on Thursday to finalize the plans for the branch FH
Event. While there we found our way
down to Bato lake. We took videos of
the fishing activity out there. This is
one of the may docking areas. The
fishers go out at night to catch fish so they can start selling fresh live fish
in the morning. We have a guy that
comes past our house at 5:30 AM peddling his pudyak with a scale to weigh what
you buy and the live fish in two barrels.
We can hear him yelling,
“Talapia!!” from quite a distance.
Saturday
morning was the baptism for a sister from a part member family. Elder Lawrence’s parents attended as he is
going home. They are from Idaho. He has been dynamic missionary who taught
over 40 lessons a week. Elder Pring and Cynthia are in the picture
We
had our first of hopefully many, Family History Events at the Bato church on
Saturday, August 15. Most of the
missionaries and members that were there to help came late and President Tino
had to work so he left me to conduct.
It was very good for those that came.
Many came late. They prepared
food for 150 and only about 40 showed up so they saved the leftovers and fed the
branch on Sunday. This is what the chapel looked like just before we started.
As you can see it is mostly missionaries.
We rewarded ourselves by going to Cotnogan on Sunday. The two street dogs that usually attend were there. I have got to get a picture of the dogs in Sacrament meeting.
Monday was a great day. We used the mission office and mission home washing machines and dryers and finally got some dry clothes to wear. After a very good lunch with Hoopes and Reeders, Valerie and spent 3 hours doing family history work with Reeders and they each found a family name they could do ordinance work for. Then we outlined a new project we want to initiate with the missionaries on how to find and teach using family history. President Reeder is a business man and had some
On Tuesday we did a district service project in Nabua. We swept a barangay street as a zone. It went very quickly which was nice because it was hot and humid. This is part of the zone hard at work in the blazing sun! You cannot see the people who are working with me.
Thursday
was district training meeting in Iriga.
The DL, Elder Tan asked us to do the training on Using Time Wisely. We had a lot of fun and learned how to
better utilize our 86 400 seconds in every day.
Valerie
and I are becoming a great teaching team!
Friday was individual training with each companionship. We are now teaching them how use family
history as a finding and teaching tool.
We give them the concepts, discuss how they apply to the finding and
teaching they do and then role play with them.
It is so fun and we get our share of laughter. Baao elders and sisters came to the church to be the first to do
the companionship training. I love and
respect these young people so much!
Because tomorrow is my birthday they had a cake
made and Sister Bakly from Great Falls, MT make a card that they all
signed. The card had a picture of a guy
with a strip of hair on it. I will
treasure it.
We started the individual companionship training's on Friday
while we were doing FH work in Baao all day.
I am sure their mothers will be pleased with me giving them root beer
floats for breakfast. There must be something from one of the food groups in
a root beer float. We then went to Chow
King for a birthday dinner. We had to
go back to Iriga on Saturday to get our phones and router rejoiced for the
month. Saturday was a big parade day in
Baao and the church is right on the parade route. I have several minutes of parade footage on my iPad. We know nothing about pageantry compared to
the way they party. I had a priesthood
meeting in Iriga later and was supposed to pick up President Botor but things
got confused. It started to rain and it
poured for several hours over night.
The city centro got flooded but we weren’t aware of it until
Monday.
Since I have so many pictures I am going to end this blog
now and continue it on another page so I can email them. Our internet service has been so poor lately
we haven’t been able to do much with email or skype and we miss the
communication from home.
We love you all! Take care of each other.
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