Week 35--February 21-27, 2016
Tom getting a Tagalog lesson from Elder Pedroza while Elder Pedroza is waiting for his interview with President Bertin.
After transfers happen every six weeks the missionaries either have Zone Conferences or Zone Interviews. This transfer is zone interviews, and President and Sister Bertin have been busy doing the interviews. They each spend 15 minutes with each missionary. Sister Bertin talks to them about how their language study is going. The foreigners spend time each day studying Tagalog and the Filipinos studying English. In the interview the missionaries are asked to prepare something to share with President Bertin. This time is was a favorite scripture on repentance. President and Sister Bertin do two or three zones a week and it takes the full six weeks between transfers to interview all 224 missionaries. They do the last two zones next week and then it is transfers again.
Tom is so faithful in teaching the Sunday School lesson . He gets up each Sunday at 5 AM to prepare. His thought this week was, "What if every one came to class prepared to teach the lesson? How much more we would learn!" That is exactly what happened to Tom this week. We had Ward Conference and the Stake Sunday School wanted to teach the lesson. Tom had prepared to teach and he got a lot more our of the lesson as a participant.
The only time we have had a Ward Choir was for Ward Conference. Tom and I participated. Tom has a great voice, Garnalee is just there to add support. We prepared for a month to sing two songs. The focus of the Ward Conference was from D&C 6:36: "Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not." One of the songs the choir sang was Hymn 128 "When Faith Endures."
Tom has been working all week long on missionary apartments. Second quarter checks are coming up soon, so next planning meeting we will talk about which apartments to keep and which ones to close. We are currently leasing 68 apartments for 224 missionaries.
A recent change in our missionary badge is that the missionaries can now order magnetic badges and badges with the mission name. That has prompted a flurry of requests which Garnalee has to process and send to the Area Office.She has processed a request every week for the past month with most missionaries ordering more that one badge. Usually she only does one order a month.
Tom can get the car hand washed and vacuumed for 80 pesos plus a 20 peso tip for 100 pesos or $2.13. He balks as getting the car washed which really needs to be done a couple of times a month because of the pollution.
Tom and I both read a book called "The Book Thief" while in Hong Kong. It was made into a movie. Sister Bertin had the DVD that we borrowed and watched Friday evening. It is a great story of a family in Berlin who was caught up the movement of Hitler. To rid the country of outside ideas Hitler had all the books burned. The story centers on a young girl and her desire to read.
Saturday, after working at the office for several hours on Aetna claims, we went to the new movie "Gods of Egypt." The moral of that movie was good wins our over evil and you can't buy your way into heaven.
After transfers happen every six weeks the missionaries either have Zone Conferences or Zone Interviews. This transfer is zone interviews, and President and Sister Bertin have been busy doing the interviews. They each spend 15 minutes with each missionary. Sister Bertin talks to them about how their language study is going. The foreigners spend time each day studying Tagalog and the Filipinos studying English. In the interview the missionaries are asked to prepare something to share with President Bertin. This time is was a favorite scripture on repentance. President and Sister Bertin do two or three zones a week and it takes the full six weeks between transfers to interview all 224 missionaries. They do the last two zones next week and then it is transfers again.
Tom is so faithful in teaching the Sunday School lesson . He gets up each Sunday at 5 AM to prepare. His thought this week was, "What if every one came to class prepared to teach the lesson? How much more we would learn!" That is exactly what happened to Tom this week. We had Ward Conference and the Stake Sunday School wanted to teach the lesson. Tom had prepared to teach and he got a lot more our of the lesson as a participant.
The only time we have had a Ward Choir was for Ward Conference. Tom and I participated. Tom has a great voice, Garnalee is just there to add support. We prepared for a month to sing two songs. The focus of the Ward Conference was from D&C 6:36: "Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not." One of the songs the choir sang was Hymn 128 "When Faith Endures."
Tom has been working all week long on missionary apartments. Second quarter checks are coming up soon, so next planning meeting we will talk about which apartments to keep and which ones to close. We are currently leasing 68 apartments for 224 missionaries.
A recent change in our missionary badge is that the missionaries can now order magnetic badges and badges with the mission name. That has prompted a flurry of requests which Garnalee has to process and send to the Area Office.She has processed a request every week for the past month with most missionaries ordering more that one badge. Usually she only does one order a month.
Tom can get the car hand washed and vacuumed for 80 pesos plus a 20 peso tip for 100 pesos or $2.13. He balks as getting the car washed which really needs to be done a couple of times a month because of the pollution.
Tom and I both read a book called "The Book Thief" while in Hong Kong. It was made into a movie. Sister Bertin had the DVD that we borrowed and watched Friday evening. It is a great story of a family in Berlin who was caught up the movement of Hitler. To rid the country of outside ideas Hitler had all the books burned. The story centers on a young girl and her desire to read.
Saturday, after working at the office for several hours on Aetna claims, we went to the new movie "Gods of Egypt." The moral of that movie was good wins our over evil and you can't buy your way into heaven.
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