Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel, Push Along...

Borbon Family Baptism

L-R Elder Tinsley, Dandy Borbon, Daniella Borbon, Jean Borbon, Johnson's
in front is their younger son and Elder Santiago.

BEAUTIFUL FAMILY!
Following in Christ's footsteps and getting baptized.
  
Sister Johnson holding Danny and Joanna's baby Melissa! If I can't hold my own new grandbaby this will have to do!!

Exiting Missionaries

Elder Kaitani, Sister Crichton, Sister Valikoula + about 10 others we didn't have to take.

Leaving is always bittersweet....

Forever friends!

TRANSFERS AGAIN!!

New Trainers going off to the Mission Home to learn how to teach the Newbies!

or

as they say it in this mission....

These Sister's just became NANAY'S

HOUSE BUILDING IN MALIGAYA

Elders Quorum President Mark Johnson Dingal

supervising the hauling of the cinder blocks.

These boys and young men have either a towel or a piece of cardboard on the back of their necks for protection.  This one can haul five at a time!

 

 

They have a very long distance to haul them to the site.  The man who came with Elder Jensen thought we should just  have some machine or something do it, but that wouldn't provide these boys with much needed work.

Some of the hard working crew!

Dexter Candari in the red and Brother Ernesto Heve on the right.

MIXING CEMENT THE GRUELING WAY!

 Abba cutting the rebar....

 Cementing the blocks

 The hole for the CR is perfect!  It took one worker all day long to dig it.

 Great scaffolding....

 The back of the homes.

 Check out this legit door and real windows!

 Welded metal roof trusses on the right of this picture.  Almost unheard of in a squatter's area!

 

 
 Chris Lana is the brother on the right who is the welding expert for the job.  He does the bunk beds for the missionaries too.  He lives in Binangonan and is a wonderful man.  His house was just upgraded a few months ago.

 Hiking the way back up.  It is definitely a HIKE!

Sister Schlager and I taking a much needed rest on the way.

 Missionary Work with the Sisters

 

 It was hard telling what we'd find in here....but we got there safe and sound.

 Beautiful View!

 Another hike to an investigator's place.  How they ever find them is a mystery to me!

 

 Great families to teach...the baby on the right is only two months old and has five inches of hair!

MORE PROJECTS, MORE SITES...

We helped Danny and JoAnna open a bank account to put a check he had received from America in.  It costs $ to open an account here.  Not just a deposit either!

It was a happy day for them!

 On the road again....this time chickens going to market!

 Sister Dingal doing laundry...She has her first baby due in March!

THIS POOR POOCH...SO MANY LOOK LIKE THIS.  IT'S SO SAD!

ANOTHER COUPLE OF FENDER BENDERS IN TRAFFIC! 

I guess it goes with the territory....

VALENTINES PARTY

Meet the Mormons at Ondoy!

Zone Activity

 Look at the varied athletic footwear on these missionaries.

 Great for running on a cement basketball court, don't ya think?

 

Elder Pobuayon, currently a Brown Belt, is only one class away from being a Black Belt in Jiu-Jitsu!  He may look small but I wouldn't want to mess with him.

SPECIAL MEETING WITH THE DURRANTS AND ECHOHAWKS

"MEET THE MORMONS"

 Good looking group....

Elder Brown taking my seat by Elder J. on the front row! 

ONDOY WITH THE ELDERS

Elder Karawa and me heading down the lane.

Have you ever bought a bag of sugar this size before?

This is a  tindahan of a less-active member.  All of us met in a circle just behind and below the scale on the right side.

Too many flies to mention, and some scarey looking stuff...just sayin'

 Darling little girls caught trying to bury this dead chick.

 Filipino "Patriot's" playing with slightly "deflated" balls.

A group sitting in the road having some kind of choir practice.

Absolutely DARLING children here in the Philippines.....


Who said you can't have fun with a stick and a coconut?

This cute little girl was having fun with me until I started to play "peek-a-boo", then she ran home crying.  We soon went to visit her and her Mom, Dad and baby sister.  She finally warmed up again.

 Meeting on a porch with a recent convert who is amazing!  She insists on going to buy RC Cola and pandasal when we come.  Today we stopped that and gave her homemade banana bread instead.

A group of women investigators who are waiting for the paperwork to get married and then baptized.

Super women!

 More perfectly beautiful children, and a couple of cute "healthy" puppies.

This little guy was asleep on the door threshold and didn't move at all while we removed our shoes and walked over him to go in to teach.

Many if not most of the dogs we see here are extremely malnourished and sickly.

A front of the house garden, trying to grow some vegetables.  

I wonder how this is gonna work out?

New Housing Project Area

MALIGAYA
A newly finished bridge to cross the river bed.

Four new houses are supposed to be built here.  But we heard today there are legal problems with the land.

Elder Jensen who preceded us here came back today with a crew.  He is about to learn about the legal hitches and hopefully we will have a PLAN B.

 

SMOG ADVERSE TRIKE DRIVER

Many people here wear masks or cover their faces with towels because of the pollution.

 He is also wearing a shirt backwards to avoid the sun...we often see coats and jackets on drivers even when it's extremely HOT!