It's "P" day here in the Philippines. "P" stand for preparation day where all the missionaries wash clothes, clean apartment, shop, fill out reports and email home. This blog is our email home.
This is rainy season. It rains about 6-8 times a day. All the roofs are metal and so we can tell how hard the rain buy the noise. Really hard rain drowns out even the window AC noise. (We'll never complain about the noisy AC at cheap motels anymore. We have 2 noisy ACs and appreciate them both)
For our P-Day we changed and washed sheets (will take 2 days to dry in the humidity,) straightened then Sister Dansie went shopping with 2 sister missionaries for skirts. When they couldn't find any appropriately long skirts they headed for a huge fabric warehouse and bought cloth. Next P day they will take it to a tailor who is a member to get them made. With the rain, lack of parking and traffic, buying fabric only took 3.5 hours.
We invited the local Zone leaders over for dinner since they will be departing soon but Elder Dansie didn't want to cook so we went to Yellow Cab pizza instead. It was P-day and Elder Fillmore's Birthday.
Last Sunday we attended the Palayan Branch for Church. What a wonder experience meeting the small congregation. It's been a long time since there has been senior missionaries in this area and we were treated like royalty. The chapel is being repainted and was spotless inside. The members take great pride in their building.
Yesterday Sunday we attended the Kalikid Branch for Church. Another gracious ward with wonderful members. Again, we were treated very special and felt totally at home within minutes. Before we left, we had assignments to do Home/Visiting teaching to less active members and Sister Dansie assigned to give a talk at the district primary activity next saturday in Palayan.
We had an opportunity to go visiting with the young Elder missionaries one afternoon, attended a baptism for 2 converts, replaced the deadbolt on an apartment where 4 Sister missionaries live, buy and deliver an ironing board, rice cooker and other stuff to some Elders who just moved in and dealt with some accounting stuff. Friday we were scheduled to go visiting with missionaries in Bongabon but that was superseded with the rush trip to Dingalan to transfer a missionary to Tarlac. (see another blog) Plus we smiled and talked to alot of people everywhere we went.
Last night (Sunday) we attended the Cabantuan Stake Institute/Young Single Adult fireside. Mission President Clark spoke. We shook another 100 hands and made many new friends.
It was a fun week in the Mission. The Gospel is the same all over the world.
Elder and Sister Dansie