Sunday, March 20, 2005 Wow, I have been really busy these last few days and haven’t found time to write. We had companionship exchanges on Friday and so I got to work with Elder Miller for a day. Even though…
Some very interesting food
Saturday, February 12, 2005 Today was another long and interesting day. We had a “Family Home Afternoon” at the Siscar’s house up in Saligsig. They invited us to come up early and eat lunch up with them. We sacrificed out…
Helping build a church . . . it’s not what you think
Friday, February 11, 2005 Today has been an interesting and very long day. I’ll just touch lightly on what was interesting. First of all this morning we went to help the Zepata family, all of whom are Seventh-day Adventists, build…
“Poor people” food
Monday, February, 7, 2005 Poor people’s food actually does taste good after all. After hearing all the complaining from people about how hard life is and how the food isn’t good, I finally got to taste it for myself. We…
Merry Christmas from Mindoro
Saturday, December 25, 2004 Well this has been the craziest Christmas day of my life. This morning I got to talk to my family. It was good but it took us forever to get it all set up because I…
Christmas Eve on Mindoro
Friday, December 24, 2004 We had a zone service project this morning out in Magsaysay. They have an investigator who we helped to build his house. It was good but there were too many people really and so we didn’t’…
We try to make cookies
Wednesday, December 15, 2004 We had a really relaxing P-day today. We actually tried to make chocolate chip cookies this morning. They worked out ok except for the fact that we had no real chocolate chips and had to use…
Vilorias get married!
Tuesday, December 14, 2004 Vilorias got married at 9:30 this morning. This was amazing because we’re in the Philippines and things just don’t work our right like that very much. Anyhow, they were really happy and finally that obstacle has…
Miracles at church and way too much food
Sunday, December 12, 2004 I asked Elder Cox this morning if we were going to have to do anything big at church today. He told me, and I also was sure, that we weren’t responsible for anything huge. Well, when…
Fun in the mountain
Monday, December 6, 2004 Today was an interesting day. We spent the morning, after our planning session, working on the Viloria wedding. We had to go to the municipal several times and also go out to Dagupan to talk to…