24 March 2024 Week #78: A Busy Week as the Lord's Work Moves Forward
Dear Family and Friends,
It has been a busy week. We had our normal Monday meeting. Then, we headed to the Ayala Mall. Clyda then headed to the Nuat Thai for an hour long massage. This company is owned by Sister Carredos. Her family is one of our vendors here in Cebu – LSQ/ARDC. We attended the open house of this site (one of her many) here close to the mall about a year ago. We finally decided it was now or never for Clyda to get this massage. It was an hour long and Clyda reports that it was fantastic. I don’t remember how much it cost, but Clyda reported that for that price it would have been good for about 5 minutes in the USA. In the meantime, I was in the mall looking for flash drives and ear buds. Besides the meeting in the morning and at the mall I spent most of the day trying to make sure I was organized to turn our projects over to Elder and Sister Ken and Shaynie Wayman. I hope I’m doing a decent job. There is so much to teach them in such a short time. I remember with the Huskinsons it was like drinking from a fire house.
On Tuesday morning we headed to Manila. We went to the Area Office to turn in Elder and Sister Welch’s passports for preparation for them to return home in June. We picked up our passports with our exit Visa papers so hopefully they will let us out of the country. We turned in Clyda’s computer the Dell, that usually started with an H. It was a Happy Dance, not tears when Clyda turned that in. She may never touch a computer again, certainly not a Dell. We also turned in our church phones that we have been connected to for 18 months. We won’t miss those either. The IT guy then cleaned them all off of all our information and prepared them to give to the Waymans the next day.
The Helsops picked us up at the Area Office and we met the Waymans at the motel that evening. We went to dinner together and joined with the Huffs and the other new replacement couples, the Gardners and Whartons. Those two couples will be in Manila replacing the Huffs and the Haynes. The Haynes went home a month ago and the Huffs extend for 6 weeks and will go home in two more weeks.
We spent Wednesday in training meetings as a Humanitarian Team and then with Elder Bangater in the afternoon. That evening we all went to dinner together again with the addition of Kenneth and Jude, the young sister service missionaries who serve in the area office helping the Humanitarian Missionaries there, and Elder and Sister Larsen.
We were up early Thursday morning to head to the Urdanetta Temple Open House. Both mornings we walked over to Eastwood to meet with Elder and Sister Larsen to ride with them. The Waymans rode with the Heslops from the motel.
The open house was wonderful. It is a beautiful temple. Our guide did a fantastic job. It was a nice spiritual experience. He stressed the importance of the covenants made in the temple and following Jesus Christ. It was very good. It turns out he was companions with Aaron Dela Cruz, one of our buddies here in the translation office, when they were missionaries in the Butuan Mission.
We flew with the Waymans from Clark back to Cebu and arrived at our apartment at about 9:30 p.m. Clyda was prepared to make some quick Tacos for dinner. It had been a great day.
We spent Friday feeding the Waymans with a firehose at both the office and our apartment. We also showed them the bank where they go to get their money, where to take the truck for a car wash, and Robinson’s Galleria Mall. We go to the Robinson’s grocery store to pick up our meat, tortillas, and cheese. Most other shopping items we get at Landers and across the street at JY Square. We pick up jello and Italian dressing at the Metro at the Ayala Mall. Well, back to the Robinson Gallerian Mall, Elder Wayman picked up some computer items, and other odds and ends. That was the break in the middle of the day from the firehose.
On Saturday while Clyda and Sister Wayman went to the open market with the Koyles and the Taylors, Elder Wayman and I took the truck to get a tire fixed. It had a screw in it that Clyda had noticed when we parked the truck at the airport on Tuesday. Fortunately, it held air all week. We got the tire repaired for 250 pesos or $4.50. Pretty good price. We continued with the firehose for a couple hours and then headed to the mountains and Lake View Gardens and restaurant for lunch. It is about an hour drive. When we got back to town, we gassed up with the remaining pesos we had to zero out our account. We then continued with the firehose for a couple of hours, had dinner and went to bed. I remember drowning with the Huskinsons trying so hard to help us, but it was overwhelming. We hope they will survive. We have so much that we are turning over to them that they will need to continue on with.
It is a wonderful Sabbath morning at about 5:00 a.m. and I can’t sleep so I thought I would get this letter done now. Being here has been a challenge and a great blessing in our lives. We have met wonderful Filipinos, young missionaires, and senior missionaries. Our lives have been so blessed by the people we have been able to rub shoulders with. We needed to be here now. The Lord directed us to this place at this time to meet the wonderful people we have met. We have truly been blessed in this great work of Gathering Israel. We know the gospel is true, that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer, and He wants us all to return to our Father in Heaven with our families and Him. That is our greatest desire, to be with them, and Tillie and Clyde, and all of you.
Holy Habits
Righteous Routines
Lift Where You Stand
With love,
Dad and Mom
Grandpa and Grandma
Briant and Clyda
Week #78 3/18/24-3/24/24
It has been a busy week. We had our normal Monday meeting. Then, we headed to the Ayala Mall. Clyda then headed to the Nuat Thai for an hour long massage. This company is owned by Sister Carredos. Her family is one of our vendors here in Cebu – LSQ/ARDC. We attended the open house of this site (one of her many) here close to the mall about a year ago. We finally decided it was now or never for Clyda to get this massage. It was an hour long and Clyda reports that it was fantastic. I don’t remember how much it cost, but Clyda reported that for that price it would have been good for about 5 minutes in the USA. In the meantime, I was in the mall looking for flash drives and ear buds. Besides the meeting in the morning and at the mall I spent most of the day trying to make sure I was organized to turn our projects over to Elder and Sister Ken and Shaynie Wayman. I hope I’m doing a decent job. There is so much to teach them in such a short time. I remember with the Huskinsons it was like drinking from a fire house.
On Tuesday morning we headed to Manila. We went to the Area Office to turn in Elder and Sister Welch’s passports for preparation for them to return home in June. We picked up our passports with our exit Visa papers so hopefully they will let us out of the country. We turned in Clyda’s computer the Dell, that usually started with an H. It was a Happy Dance, not tears when Clyda turned that in. She may never touch a computer again, certainly not a Dell. We also turned in our church phones that we have been connected to for 18 months. We won’t miss those either. The IT guy then cleaned them all off of all our information and prepared them to give to the Waymans the next day.
The Helsops picked us up at the Area Office and we met the Waymans at the motel that evening. We went to dinner together and joined with the Huffs and the other new replacement couples, the Gardners and Whartons. Those two couples will be in Manila replacing the Huffs and the Haynes. The Haynes went home a month ago and the Huffs extend for 6 weeks and will go home in two more weeks.
We spent Wednesday in training meetings as a Humanitarian Team and then with Elder Bangater in the afternoon. That evening we all went to dinner together again with the addition of Kenneth and Jude, the young sister service missionaries who serve in the area office helping the Humanitarian Missionaries there, and Elder and Sister Larsen.
We were up early Thursday morning to head to the Urdanetta Temple Open House. Both mornings we walked over to Eastwood to meet with Elder and Sister Larsen to ride with them. The Waymans rode with the Heslops from the motel.
The open house was wonderful. It is a beautiful temple. Our guide did a fantastic job. It was a nice spiritual experience. He stressed the importance of the covenants made in the temple and following Jesus Christ. It was very good. It turns out he was companions with Aaron Dela Cruz, one of our buddies here in the translation office, when they were missionaries in the Butuan Mission.
We flew with the Waymans from Clark back to Cebu and arrived at our apartment at about 9:30 p.m. Clyda was prepared to make some quick Tacos for dinner. It had been a great day.
We spent Friday feeding the Waymans with a firehose at both the office and our apartment. We also showed them the bank where they go to get their money, where to take the truck for a car wash, and Robinson’s Galleria Mall. We go to the Robinson’s grocery store to pick up our meat, tortillas, and cheese. Most other shopping items we get at Landers and across the street at JY Square. We pick up jello and Italian dressing at the Metro at the Ayala Mall. Well, back to the Robinson Gallerian Mall, Elder Wayman picked up some computer items, and other odds and ends. That was the break in the middle of the day from the firehose.
On Saturday while Clyda and Sister Wayman went to the open market with the Koyles and the Taylors, Elder Wayman and I took the truck to get a tire fixed. It had a screw in it that Clyda had noticed when we parked the truck at the airport on Tuesday. Fortunately, it held air all week. We got the tire repaired for 250 pesos or $4.50. Pretty good price. We continued with the firehose for a couple hours and then headed to the mountains and Lake View Gardens and restaurant for lunch. It is about an hour drive. When we got back to town, we gassed up with the remaining pesos we had to zero out our account. We then continued with the firehose for a couple of hours, had dinner and went to bed. I remember drowning with the Huskinsons trying so hard to help us, but it was overwhelming. We hope they will survive. We have so much that we are turning over to them that they will need to continue on with.
It is a wonderful Sabbath morning at about 5:00 a.m. and I can’t sleep so I thought I would get this letter done now. Being here has been a challenge and a great blessing in our lives. We have met wonderful Filipinos, young missionaires, and senior missionaries. Our lives have been so blessed by the people we have been able to rub shoulders with. We needed to be here now. The Lord directed us to this place at this time to meet the wonderful people we have met. We have truly been blessed in this great work of Gathering Israel. We know the gospel is true, that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer, and He wants us all to return to our Father in Heaven with our families and Him. That is our greatest desire, to be with them, and Tillie and Clyde, and all of you.
Holy Habits
Righteous Routines
Lift Where You Stand
With love,
Dad and Mom
Grandpa and Grandma
Briant and Clyda
P.S. Oh by the way, if you haven’t written us in a while we would love one last letter from you, and we are coming home in two more days.
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