Week 63--September 4-10, 2016

Blue Sister Day: Tuesday was the first day of Zone Conferences for this transfer, Sister Bertin, Sister Gamolo, and Sister Harrington just happened to all dress in blue and white.

Our drive to the office has become similar to an obstacle course. A new water line is being installed and then the road is being resurfaced. We are going to slow for the motorcycle. Usually they pass on the right side of the car but this one did pass on the left of the car.

You have to be careful not to get too close to the edge as you drive by where concrete will be poured for the new road. It has been pretty scary as Tom had to be pretty close to the edge when there has been a car on the opposite side of the road. With the one foot shoulder, if we were to drive off the edge, we'd have to call a tow truck.

 The motorcycle can go around the barricade on the right side and continue on down the road however we had to do as the Jeepney is doing, and go around the left side.  Pretty dicey when two vehicles pass each other.

The worker is waving us on past this barricade. You can see the pock marked pavement which is done by a huge jack-hammer.  They seem to be really good at tearing up the road, but it takes forever to finish the project.

Another barricade. Fortunately no cars from the other direction so we don't have to squeeze by.

Then we come to the heavy equipment. They expect us to make two lanes out of narrow lane.










Tom has been busy preparing rent papers and tax forms for each of the 70 apartments for the last quarter of 2016. The next time will be when he training his replacement, Elder Dickson.

Garnalee is always working on several batches of exiting missionaries. The work on a new batch starts five months before they actually exit. This week she had to move the folders for the February batch to the Departing drawer.

Just to show that we don't work all of the time this was movie weekend. The remake of Pete's Dragon arrived in the Philippines. Garnalee would show the original on reward days when she taught fourth grade. As the movie started she thought she was going to be disappointed but she wasn't. A great move for the family. Then on Saturday we went to see Sully with Tom Hanks. We loved the movie Captain Phillips that he stared in about the container ship off the coast of Ethiopia. He did a great job in Sully.