Monday, November 8, 2004 This morning was a very eventful morning. We left the apartment at 7:00 to go to Rizal to help Rolley Manzo and Elsie Hicap get married. We got there right at 8:00 but the lady we…
A visit from President and Sister Beck
Sunday, November 7, 2004 President and Sister Beck along with two APs came to church today with us here in Calintaan. It was a good meeting even if we did have some problems. Bro Oreta taught Priesthood. He did a…
Someone(thing) tries to break in
Friday, November 5, 2004 Last night was a really interesting night. We didn’t have any power and that was one part of it. Also we had a rather scary experience last night. We went to bed early because there was…
Brown out . . .
Thursday, November 4, 2004 Well we are in the middle of a brown out! The power went off about 3:00 in the morning and hasn’t come back on since. It’s so hog! No electric fan or anything! I’m not going…
Cleaning the apartment and dealing with some dalagas
Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Today was P-day again. I got to clean up the apartment a little bit this morning to prepare for Pres. and Sis. Beck’s visit on Sunday. It looks fairly good now. We also had to go…
Encouraging us to “lift our eyes”
Tuesday, November 2, 2004 Well I’m sitting here at 8:30, the only one awake in our apartment. When we got back to Calintaan today we went out to try to visit Bro Pudan again. Elder Cox’s leg really started to…
Teaching about the family in the cemetery
Monday, October November 1, 2004 Time is so fast! I thought that it was still October! Today is all saints day and so everyone was all over at the cemetery all day. We actually spent about 2.5 hours there talking…
Halloween in the Cemetery
Sunday, October 31, 2004 Only in the Philippines will you see people, lots of people, in the cemetery on Halloween Night. When we walked past, virtually the whole city was there. They had big lights set up so they could…
Building a lattice and being discouraged
Friday, October 29, 2004 Today was another discouraging day. This morning we helped Bro. Pulido work on building a lattice for some bean-like plants. It wasn’t really hard but it was kind of hot. We ate a good fruit afterwards.…
Perceiving a lack of desire
Thursday, October 28, 2004 Today was a difficult day for me. Part of the problem is that we haven’t taught a discussion in four days and I feel that what little work we do isn’t really effective. For example, today we…