Friday, March 25, 2005 Well the craziness of “Holy Week” continued today with people parading down the street toward the church early in the morning and then people doing “penance” throughout the day by whipping themselves and marching around town.…
Some of the Rose family commits to Baptism
Thursday, March 24, 2005 Today has been a good day. I’ve really been trying to soak up this area because I’m now in my last week here. This morning I taught a piano lesson to Lennie Tardio. It went well.…
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…
Thanksgiving with no power
Thursday, November 25, 2004 For Thanksgiving “feast” today we ate a can of mostly beef in fat. We also made the rest of the mashed potatoes that the Pyrons left us when they went home. It was okay but not…
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…