Ganirs in San Pablo: 2008-01-13

Monday, January 14, 2008

Passing by a very small island. It may be private. I don't know.

The kalaboa serve well for twenty to thirty years, then they are taken to the slauder house and used as meat for cornbeef.

This is a truck load coming from Mindoro on the slow boat to be slaudered.

Some scenery from the boat as we traveled.

Ducks on the slow boat going back to Batangas.

These ducks really smelled bad, so we went to the other side of the boat to get away from the smell.

This is wear we ate.

I don't think we can ever eat here again! I honestly could not eat anything I ordered. I even asked what was in the dish I ordered and was told. When I got it, it had nothing that I was told was in the dish. President ordered the same thing and liked it, but he got sick the next day. I am glad I did not eat it.

President inviting the elders to lunch after house to house interviews.

Playing around!

Waiting for pera (money) to be thrown from the boat.

WE have arrived!

Another day on the SLOW boat to Mindoro.

We usually take the fast boat which gets us there in an hour and fifteen minutes. But today we had to take the mission van with the President, so the slow boat, which takes two and a half hours, is the boat of choice.

Elder Tripole now has his turn.

Now Elder Bower will baptize a sweet sister.

Elder Tripole teaching the priest how to do it.

What a great missionary. He is letting the priests do a couple of baptisms today as he stands by with help and support.

First up is a little eight year old boy.

The Balayan Branch baptism.

The four people on the right of the picture are the ones being baptized.

These two priests are going to experience baptizing someone for the first time.

We then rushed to the baptism.

They are starving.

We brought a couple of loaves of bread, peanut butter, pastries, saging (bananas), water and my precious raspberry jam that is very hard to find and and very expensive. They loved it!