Week 42--April 10-16, 2016
Each day as we enter the subdivision where the mission office is located we pass this little shop that sells rice and eggs. We have always noticed the brightly colored violet eggs and thought they were regular eggs laid by an exotic breed of chicken. Come to find out they are salted duck eggs and are painted violet so that they can be distinguished from regular eggs. They are made by dipping a raw egg in a cake batter-like mixture of clay, salt, and water. They are then packed in a wooden crate to cure for 12-14 days, the salt equilibrating in the batch by osmosis. After the two-week curing time the eggs are cleaned and boiled. The curing allows for a long shelf life but they are stocked and replenished biweekly. Tom ate one at restaurant we went to several months ago not knowing how they were made until today. He did say they were salty.
Family, notice the Pepsi bottle. Who does it remind you of? Soda still comes in glass bottles in the Philippines although you can but soda in cans. A can of soda costs 40-45 pesos which is about $1 US dollar. Tom bought a bottle of Royal Orange in a glass bottle on Saturday for 8 pesos which is 20 cents US.
On Sunday, April 10, we spent the day watching General Conference at the Stake Center. The trip which usually takes an hour only took 22 minutes so we got to enjoy the music of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for an hour and read over some of the talks from Saturday. President Monson's two talks were very short but inspiring. In the Priesthood session he said, "This precious gift of priesthood power brings with it not only solemn responsibilities but also special blessings for ourselves and for others. May we, in whatever place we may find ourselves, always be worthy to call upon its power, for we never know when our need and our opportunity to do may come." The second talk, "May We Ever Choose the Harder Right Instead of the Easier Wrong," President Monson warned us about choices. Unlike Alice in Louis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when she asked the Cheshire cat which path she should follow, the cat answers, "That depends on where you want to go. If you do not know where you want to go, if doesn't matter which path you take." We know where we want to go and it does matter which way we go, for the path we follow in this life leads to our destination in the next life.
The rest of the talks on Sunday were inspiring and uplifting just as they were on Saturday.
Each week we are assigned to attend a district meeting on Tuesday. This week we were assigned to go to Novaliches where Elder Godinez gave an excellent workshop on "10 Ways to Be a Better Missionary" with emphasis on getting along with your companion.
Tom had the opportunity to give a Spanish lesson this week to Elder Salazar who is VISA waiter going to the California Long Beach Mission. Elder Salazar will definitely use Spanish in his mission.
Elder Ebite and Elder Jangao, who are cousins, have had their VISAs approved to go Johannesburg South Africa Mission. They fly out on Sunday.
For our meal on Saturday, Garnalee made hamburgers, and we ate some of the pork n' beans and Vienna sausages from our 72 hour emergency kits. Every six months, at General Conference time, we are to check the dates on the food, and if it is close to expiring we are to eat the food and purchase new to replace it.
We have noticed an increase in the temperature this week. It is HOT and going to get HOTTER!!
Family, notice the Pepsi bottle. Who does it remind you of? Soda still comes in glass bottles in the Philippines although you can but soda in cans. A can of soda costs 40-45 pesos which is about $1 US dollar. Tom bought a bottle of Royal Orange in a glass bottle on Saturday for 8 pesos which is 20 cents US.
On Sunday, April 10, we spent the day watching General Conference at the Stake Center. The trip which usually takes an hour only took 22 minutes so we got to enjoy the music of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for an hour and read over some of the talks from Saturday. President Monson's two talks were very short but inspiring. In the Priesthood session he said, "This precious gift of priesthood power brings with it not only solemn responsibilities but also special blessings for ourselves and for others. May we, in whatever place we may find ourselves, always be worthy to call upon its power, for we never know when our need and our opportunity to do may come." The second talk, "May We Ever Choose the Harder Right Instead of the Easier Wrong," President Monson warned us about choices. Unlike Alice in Louis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when she asked the Cheshire cat which path she should follow, the cat answers, "That depends on where you want to go. If you do not know where you want to go, if doesn't matter which path you take." We know where we want to go and it does matter which way we go, for the path we follow in this life leads to our destination in the next life.
The rest of the talks on Sunday were inspiring and uplifting just as they were on Saturday.
Each week we are assigned to attend a district meeting on Tuesday. This week we were assigned to go to Novaliches where Elder Godinez gave an excellent workshop on "10 Ways to Be a Better Missionary" with emphasis on getting along with your companion.
Tom had the opportunity to give a Spanish lesson this week to Elder Salazar who is VISA waiter going to the California Long Beach Mission. Elder Salazar will definitely use Spanish in his mission.
Elder Ebite and Elder Jangao, who are cousins, have had their VISAs approved to go Johannesburg South Africa Mission. They fly out on Sunday.
For our meal on Saturday, Garnalee made hamburgers, and we ate some of the pork n' beans and Vienna sausages from our 72 hour emergency kits. Every six months, at General Conference time, we are to check the dates on the food, and if it is close to expiring we are to eat the food and purchase new to replace it.
We have noticed an increase in the temperature this week. It is HOT and going to get HOTTER!!
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