Addition to blog.  We're still having trouble uploading our videos, so we're giving it another try.

Have you EVER seen such a huge papaya?  This was so juicy and sweet.  It is lying on the tip of a banana tree leaf (which was wrapped around it) when it was given to us.  We're really going to miss all of the various fresh - home grown - fruit when we return to the United States. 

It is not unusual to see Jeepneys loaded with so many different things such as this one  Sometimes, they'll be totally filled with fresh harvested pineapple. 

Now, here's a "travelling Salesman" tricycle (tricee).  As you can see, it has fans, wash tubs, blue 5-gallon water jugs, brooms, stools, chairs, and much, much more.

As we were at one of our newest apartments, the children gathered to have their picture taken.  Elder Finley, one of Jerry's Supply Assistants, wanted to be in the picture, too.

 

Hopefully, you will be able to open the two videos below.  The first one was taken from our apartment window, which is above the Mission Office.  It shows how the wind was blowing the coconut trees, and also some of the rain.  The wind and rain weren't much to speak of since we were on the very fringes of the Super Typhoon - Haiyan.  It is also called Yolanda.  We had a better video, but for some reason we weren't able to upload it.

 

Jerry took this video where we stopped in the National Forest.  It was a breathtakingly beautiful area, and we thought you would enjoy seeing it.  The roadsides are "manicured" by hand.  You never see litter of any kind, and there are no visible homes.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

We have a few random pictures and a video we'd like to share with you.  Hope you enjoy them.

 

Just look at that happy face.  The Office Elders have found the way to Jerry's heart - Krispy Creme Donuts will do the trick every time, but they have to come all the way from Manila!

 

 

 

We followed this Tricee down the highway that has 3 pigs in the back along with it's human cargo. 

 

 

All highway markings are painted by hand.  Check out the bucket of white paint and the paint brush in the hand of the 2nd painter.

 

We attended a baptism of a 13 year old girl, who was converted by these two missionaries, Elder Davis and Elder Datu, who are Assistants to the Mission President.

 

 

 

This is the baptism, with Elder Datu performing the ordinance.

 

This is her bearing her testimony - in Tagalog, of course.  You can see the happy countenance in her face

 

 

 

Every chair in the Philippines that we have found in the chapels have this printed on the back.  Sometimes the translation loses or gains something.

 

 

Following is a video that Jerry took as we decided to stop along the road in the only National Forest that we get to drive through.  It's refreshing, in that there are no visible dwellings for at least 25 kilometers. 

 

 

 

Below is a video showing how the Super Typhoon, Haiyan (Yolanda - local name for it) and it's affect on us here in the Naga Mission. The video was taken from one of the windows in our apartment.  Needless to say, the typhoon missed us except for some wind and rain.  The missionaries were put on total "lockdown" on the 8th of November, when the brunt of the storm was to hit us.  Everyone survived very well.

 



 

We are keeping busy and the time is going quickly. 

 

Thanks for all your prayers and concerns at the time of the typhoon.

 

Love,

The Campbells