This school has 2700 students and it was built in the 30's.

The canteen was SO very small, but the missionaries were hungry between classes. These are some of the cooks and servers in the canteen.

Only in the Philippines could one find a door sign leading into a classroom that says, "Good bless our room"

Nipa huts for gathering or studying.

Elder Ganir telling stories!

Very sweet girls!

We had a good time!

others are oh so happy to see us.

Everyone is always so shy!

This is a picture looking back up to the MANY steep steps where the city picture was taken.

This is a picture looking down into the city from the high school steps.

A fun service project!

We went on a service project with these eight missionaries in one of our areas. We went to Taal/Lemery High School and taught the Word of Wisdom to 200 plus students. We taught in 4 different classroom to 4 different groups of students. We really had a great time. We were very well received. We started each class with a prayer. We introduced ourselves and taught with a firm conviction of staying healthy and avoiding alcohol, tobacco and coffee/tea and illegal drugs. We all took turns talking about different issues. We even sang, I am a Child of God at the end. I couldn't believe this high school would allow us to come and be so happy to see us.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad! We love you and miss you and all of us wouldn't be here if you two hadn't found each other so irresistable!!

Josephine in the center was baptised today. She is 19 years old.

Sister Mordwino is from San Jose, CA and is serving in San Jose, Batangas Philippines. Her cute companion is Sister Castilo.

The slow ferry to Mindoro. It's a drive on and off ferry.

Jeepney bumper says, "God Save Us"

Bottom of the jeepney "In God we Trust"

The truck to the right of the goat truck was a pig truck (in front of us). The hind end of these trucks are NOT the place to be, ever!

We had to park our truck behind this truck full of goats. Every once in awhile a goat would poke it's head out and look at us.

We weren't sure if this truck (overload) was going to clear the ramp onto the ferry.

We took the elders for lunch.

This is Elder Scow and Elder Balcita. They are the Zone Leaders for Mindoro. Brother Figuracion (Elder Figuracion just four weeks ago) finished his mission in our San Pablo mission, went home and got a job teaching English to Koreans, which brought him here to Mindoro. Of course, cute Elder Ganir is loving his Mango shake too.

The drive on ferries waiting to load up and leave.

Today we had to drive one of the mission trucks onto a ferry to go to an island to deliver some items for a missionary apartment. We are going to be putting two more elders, making a foursome, in Calapan Mindoro.

School uniforms are so modest.

And onto the truck it goes.

The cost of rice has doubled since we got here. This fellow is lucky to make enough money all day at this hard labor to feed his family enough rice for dinner.

He is carrying the dirt to the truck.

Working the hard way!

Notice the stocking hats and no shoes or maybe rubber slippers.