Language Speaking Assessment Pilot Program Kick-off

LSA - A VERY NICE CHANGE OF PACE!

 Elders and Sisters in our Morong Zone coming in to take their language assessment.  Sister Jardine and I with some of our favorite missionaries!

Missionaries scheduled every hour to sit and take the online assessment with audio headsets.

Sister Zollinger getting ready.....

Elder Rajan and another Elder on the other side of the room....They were all a little nervous thinking it was some kind of test, but it ended up being kind of fun showing off their Tagalog skills.

The native Filipinos just hanging out together while their companions who are learning Tagalog took the assessments.

We went through lots of bakery goodies in four days!

Elder Johnson and Jardine looking busy in the hall!

A great gathering place....and to think we get to do this every three months for three years!
Well we won't be here for three years but the pilot program will go that long.   Our next time will be in December.

Sister JoAnn Schlager from Missouri is such a wonderful friend and mentor!  I just love her!!  She is like a sister to me.  She will go home in February and I won't know what to do without her.  She and her husband were the couple who showed us the ropes when we came and got us settled.  They were assigned out where we are and then were asked to move into the city and be the Mission Office Secretaries.

Me and Sister Strebel from California.  She is an amazing young woman who is so fun and a terrific missionary who just happens to be Kami Williams and Molly McCall's cousin.  She goes home in about 6 weeks.  

Moving the Elders

COGEO ZONE LEADERS AND DISTRICT LEADERS:  Elder Loste., Elder Tino, Elder Martin & Elder Dickens, with Elder Jardine and Johnson loading the truck.

 

Hauling stuff up the hill from their apartment to be loaded into the truck.

I didn't want to kill myself again and knew that I couldn't just sit by and not help so I called out to about a half dozen young kids and asked them to help carry stuff up the hill and told them I would pay them each 10 pesos!

This family helped guard the missionaries stuff while they took the truck full of stuff to the new apartment.

After I paid them their 10 pesos, I asked them all. "What are you going to buy with your money?"

This cute boy in the purple said instantly...."FOOD!"  I gave him some pesos for his little brother hiding in the back too.

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 This is a picture of the landlord of the old apartment who is a member of the church and temple worker.  Her husband spent 20 years working in Saudi Arabia coming home only very little, while she raised her 3 kids.  Today they own about four apartments and her three married, educated children live right there as well.  They are teachers etc. and other professionals but even with that sacrifice what they have is still very little.  The baby is her grandson and is 18 months and it's not a very good picture but this cute little guy counted to ten in English and knew all his colors!  I was very impressed.

 More families living under the freeways....even worse than the squatters!

The Teresa Branch improvements!

LEFT:  the new arrangements at the podium....

 RIGHT: the tray with a diffuser, tissues and hand soap in the ladies room (CR)

 And the best thing ever.....TOILET PAPER!

When I cleaned it, I even took the time to fold the end of the toilet paper into a nice point like they do at nice hotels.....hahaha

This was the temple with the moon shining through the night clouds after FHE on Monday night.

So pretty!