Another pretty sunset.

Terraced rice fields.

Sorry Elder Wooley, I belong to another church.

Dogs, cats and goats a plenty.

Elder Wooley found an investigator.

Look out!

Ready, set, GO!

She made food for us. Fish, rice and of course soda.

They had no electricity because they could not afford any at this time, so we ate by candle light. It would be so very insulting to them if we did not eat, even though we felt horrible to eat what little food they had. The fish was actually fabulous.

Pablo with their oldest daughter.

Pablo's wife with six of their fourteen children.

Here is the boat he is so proud of. Great name.

Pablos's four brothers builds boats for a living. This is one they are working on.

Pablo wanted to show us his boat. He is a fisherman.

The children love to have their picture taken.

This fishing village was very surprised to see us.

An unexpected meeting of this fellow.

After introductions he said he was from a funny place that we probably haven't heard of, "Salt Lake City". He has tons of great stories. He is Brother Coons. He is a Vietnam Vetern with a scar from his calf up to his neck. He calls it his zipper. He joined the church in Germany and was called on a mission nine months later. He has six kids who all went on missions. His youngest is on a mission right now. He remarried several years ago and lived in Alabama with his Filipino wife and their two small children. They all died in Hurricane Katrina. He came back here to live and find another wife. He has a beautiful five bedroom home in a resort village on Mindoro. He invited us to come and visit him. We probably will do that when we go to Mindoro.

Our only Buger King in our mission.

We fed these four missionaries lunch after a district meeting. We ordered the special, which was buy a whopper, fries and drink and get a second whopper free. Well, the cashier said we have no whoppers today, we are all out. So ordered junior whoppers with the same deal, but they had no lettuce and no sprite from the soda fountain, so they gave us canned sprite. We never get any lettuce

There is always children waiting for candy.

Here's the van. The next best way to go. Personally I would chose the van first.

The buses just would not stop. No room, not even one seat>

WE actually have three redheads in our mission. The shorter Elder is going home.

Time for another batch to go home.

We all walk down the road from the mission home to the bus stop to send some of these missionaries home. It was New Year's Day. After watching about twenty completely full buses pass us by, the AP's had to load them all in the van with their luggage and drive them to Lipa City to try and catch a bus to the terminal in Manila. It worked! Usually there is no problem when it comes to catching a bus on the road in front of the mission home.

New Year's Eve 2007. It was a cold 69 degrees.

I NEVER thought I would be cold here. It is always so hot and humid. I've been told that we have been here during the cooler part of the year, so just wait, because the HEAT is really coming in April, May, June, July and August. New Year's was very windy and I was cold. The fireworks were never ending, huge, loud, extremely plentiful, illegal Chinese kind, colorful, dangerous and a few still exploding today, Jan. 3rd.

This one is even a little harder to spot him. He is pickingt the 'buko' and throwing it to the ground.

Look carefullly. He is there.