Jodi & Wilson in Star, ID. 8/01/2007

good to be in the USA

These three bothers looked up the song "Aloha Oi" on the internet and sang it to us at the end of the program..

They did a great job for knowing this song. We were very touched.

This beautiful 70 year old sister was to do her dance again as a special ancore!

We were asked again to join this beautiful flower dance.

Of course at the end we were asked to join in!

Towards the end of the program, one branch performed some traditional Filipino dances.

Singing, some more dancing and an interperative scripture story were included in the Fiesta.

Groups from all four branches performed some sort of dance number

The wonderful Balayan District honored us with a Fiesta just before we left

Because Elder Ganir was born in Hawaii, they honored us with some Hawaiian flare at the Fiesta. This sweet little girl danced to the "Hawaii Five-O" theme song. She was actually very good. It was a fun way to start the evening fiesta.

Just barely squeezing by......

Hi everyone..sorry I have not blogged for a while but, we have not had access to the internet since April first. Now that I am somewhat reconnected, I will finish blogging our mission pictures. This picture was the tightest "squeeze by" on a very narrow road. Of course we had to be somewhere, but we just had to be patient. Isalong! (just one more time)

Across the street from our beautiful chapel are common homes found in the Philippines.

Ninety percent of the wonderful people here, live in homes like these. It is so nice for them to have such a nice chapel to attend church in.

The basketball court in front of the chapel is nicely landscaped.

Here is our lovely chapel in Siniloan

Our mission is responsible for 4 districts. We just finished our last district conference for 6 months.

We went again to beautiful Siniloan with its mountains, rice paddies, ancient cathedrals, and city of what I call, "the best of all the tricycles" I've seen here.

How many people can you fit on a jeepney?

JUST ONE MORE!

Another piece of artwork that I love.

Flat tire anyone?

It was Sunday morning at the District Conference. President Anderson had to leave to go back to the mission home (on another island) for an emergency. So we all had to divvy up the talks to take the place of Pres. and Sister Anderson. The Hunts did the speaking at the youth meeting. So, Elder Ganir took the car that had developed a flat tire over night, to be fixed. He takes a member with him to show him the way. He gets to a vulcanizing shop (they fix tires?) Elder Ganir asked if he fixed tires and he said yes, but I don't have a jack. We had just checked out of the hotel and the trunk was overloaded with luggage and other stuff. Elder Ganir had to unload the trunk to get his jack. Then he had to jack up the car, take off the lug nuts and take off the tire, then...the fellow would fix it. He found a small nail in the tire. He put some rubber in the hole and pushed it in with a larger nail????? Anyway, the tire got fixed. The fellow even put the tire back on the car for Elder Ganir and, it only cost 80 cents and a lot of effort by Elder Ganir. Elder Ganir then put the jack away and loaded up the car. Sweating, with a few small grease spots on his shirt, Elder Ganir made it back to the church to speak in Conference. We could not take a chance and have a flat tire on the way home late at night. All in a day's work, for couple missionaries.