Friday, May 10, 2013

Adding onto our last post:

 

On rare occasions, we use the office Elder's Ford Ranger pickup to make deliveries to our apartment upgrades.  Our mountain west camping skills come in handy, as we learned early in life how to pack efficiently, using every bit of space available.



 

Back of the pickup we drove with supplies.  Bunk beds on the bottom with mattress, closets, wash tubs, desks and other things for the coming missionaries.

 

 

Here is a view of the side of the pickup - cram packed when we drove to Guinobatan to "upgrade" an apartment to accommodate 4 missionaries.  As you can see, it was totally packed with supplies such as a mattress, desk fan, iron, box of Book of Mormons, etc..

 

Sisters and Elders unloading van.

 

Desk assembly

 

Two of our sweet Sisters assembling a stand fan.

 

 Two elders helping Jerry put a bunk bed together.





We always enjoy the children and they absolutely LOVE having their picture taken.

 

 More children

 

 Wooden wheeled Carabao cart.  They use Carabao more than you would think.  We see very little mechanized equipment that is used for farming.

 

 These two buckets that this young man is carrying contains a drink called "Gorp".  It is a sticky, sweet drink that you have to acquire a taste for.  We have not quite acquired that yet.

 

These white pods on this tree appear after the tree loses it's leaves.  When they open up, they have something that looks like cotton, similar to our cottonwood trees in the States.

 

 Sisters who are studying English with Sister Campbell as their tutor

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 2 more students

 

 Hope you enjoyed these additional pictures as much as we enjoyed taking them.  And life goes on.

 

Please remember the missionaries throughout the world in your prayers.