Week 44--April 24-30, 2016
We have talked about the jeepneys and put several pictures in about them. This picture shows what the spare tire on most of the jeepneys looks like--bald.
The Philippines is not in complacence with OSHA rules. We see construction workers wearing flip flops. We see men working on sewer lines in flip flips or no foot wear at all. We see garbage collectors wearing flip flops. Flip flops is the national foot wear of the Philippines.
Cutting of the grass here is done with hand clippers or a machete. I'm sure the footwear would be flip flops.
Tom is required to zero out his Church ATM card once a year. He had received notification that he needed to do that immediately. He spent most of this week getting that done. He has to use or deposit the cash on hand, and than he has to have President Bertin's approval once the process has been completed.
Tom spent Wednesday in Malolos with Elder Broadhead. They went to the apartment in Pulilan to pay the HOA and garbage collection fees. They met with a land lord to sign papers for a new apartment in Malolos. Next on to Guiguinto to check out another missionary apartment. While in Guiguinto the missionaries gave Tom the water bill for PHP1600, which is enormous. He suspects that the bill has not been paid for several months. He needs to check to see which missionaries were assigned to that area previously.
Tom is starting the work on rent checks for the next quarter. That is another one of the big jobs he has take care of because there are 68 apartments. With so many changes recently that will be a big job.
On Saturday we were replacing the toilet seat. The bolts were in a small, hard to reach area. Garnalee offered to try to tighten them since she has smaller hands. She needed to take off her jade bracelet that was purchased by Tom for her when they went to Bejing. When she was putting it back on when it slipped from her hand and fell to the ceramic tile floor and broke. She is very sad as the bracelet has special meaning.
Garnalee's week has been the usual things of entering baptism records, sending letters to missionaries, creating folders for the ten missionaries that have been assigned to our mission just this week, sorting mail, filling mail run orders, and answering missionary questions. Zone Interviews started this week so there will be more days of missionaries at the office during the next few weeks. They bring enthusiasm and life to the office.
The Philippines is not in complacence with OSHA rules. We see construction workers wearing flip flops. We see men working on sewer lines in flip flips or no foot wear at all. We see garbage collectors wearing flip flops. Flip flops is the national foot wear of the Philippines.
Cutting of the grass here is done with hand clippers or a machete. I'm sure the footwear would be flip flops.
Tom is required to zero out his Church ATM card once a year. He had received notification that he needed to do that immediately. He spent most of this week getting that done. He has to use or deposit the cash on hand, and than he has to have President Bertin's approval once the process has been completed.
Tom spent Wednesday in Malolos with Elder Broadhead. They went to the apartment in Pulilan to pay the HOA and garbage collection fees. They met with a land lord to sign papers for a new apartment in Malolos. Next on to Guiguinto to check out another missionary apartment. While in Guiguinto the missionaries gave Tom the water bill for PHP1600, which is enormous. He suspects that the bill has not been paid for several months. He needs to check to see which missionaries were assigned to that area previously.
Tom is starting the work on rent checks for the next quarter. That is another one of the big jobs he has take care of because there are 68 apartments. With so many changes recently that will be a big job.
On Saturday we were replacing the toilet seat. The bolts were in a small, hard to reach area. Garnalee offered to try to tighten them since she has smaller hands. She needed to take off her jade bracelet that was purchased by Tom for her when they went to Bejing. When she was putting it back on when it slipped from her hand and fell to the ceramic tile floor and broke. She is very sad as the bracelet has special meaning.
Garnalee's week has been the usual things of entering baptism records, sending letters to missionaries, creating folders for the ten missionaries that have been assigned to our mission just this week, sorting mail, filling mail run orders, and answering missionary questions. Zone Interviews started this week so there will be more days of missionaries at the office during the next few weeks. They bring enthusiasm and life to the office.
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