Week Sep. 27-Oct. 3

Monday we grocery shopped.  It was very interesting.  And we bought some 3m hooks, garbage can, bucket, mop, bleach... And we bought some nacho cheese and salsa from the Atrium store.  It is very hard to get to so we won't be there often.  But we had nachos for our dinner and that tasted good. We were a little tired of Filipino food.
Tuesday was district meeting. The Elder who gave the lesson did a great job.  It lasted 2.5 hours.  I couldn't believe it.  It was so great!  We have 2 sisters and 4 elders and us.  It was so fun to talk over each investigator and find ways to include ward members with friendshipping by asking primary or mutual etc. presidents for families to participate.  Later that day we went with Elder and Sister Green, from another Island in their car and we rode with them to Roxas and Kalibo to meet with stake presidencies, rs and yw stake presidencies and others to get acquainted and to find out how they are doing. These areas were hit by tropical storm Yolanda last year.
We really had a nice dinner and visit together in Roxas and stayed in a nice hotel there.  We visited some schools in Kalibo that are serving our saints to improve their education and skills.  And ate at Annie's, stayed at another nice hotel ($45) only.
Thursday, we picked up Sister Annie and went shopping for materials that our students needed for their courses....like beauty supply stuff, mechanic stuff etc.  it was really an educational experience.  When we were done, we had mango shakes to go from Annie's and then drove to the boat pier where the boat takes the Greens and their car to their island and we took a cab back to Iloilo where Aquinos were waiting for us at our house because they had heard we didn't have water and they were worried about us.
Friday we did our studies and went to the self reliance center but no one was there.  We visited with our stake president.  He is in CES.  He reminds me of Tim.  Great man!
I will get to watch r.s. Conference tomorrow at 3 .  We get everything a week later.  I think we are off to a good start. Love, Mom