The end of another month! What!

I know for those who are expecting babies, the time is not going so fast, but for us, it feels like middle of January, not end of February.
Saturday the cleaning lady came.  I know.  I have a cleaning lady come once a month to clean the bathroom, mop floors and clean the fans and rugs.  It is almost two hours, for P200 which equals about $5 and that is more than most people make in a day here, so she is happy.  They want us to have house help so we can pay people.  It is nice except that I don't have much to do but read in the bedroom when she comes.
The toilet is broken but we are used to dumping water to flush.  Oh, is this too much information?:) Anyway, after all that, we went to Arevalo, the mission office to return one set of license plates that we were given.  While there, we found out another missionary in our district is sick, so we went home and made chicken/noodle soup with ginger, salt, chicken, onion, carrots and spinach noodles.  Elder Eneje is sick also. We took him soup yesterday, plus calamansi drink with honey.  Sister Cagape gave us the calamansi from her chicken farm so we just squeezed away.  They are very small fruits but have some juice that is very good and healthy.  The missionaries have had high fevers.  It has been so sad.  Later we went to the Center and met with City Ward bishop, his specialist, plus three but then the Bishop just left.  They wanted "My Path" in one hour.  I guess they don't understand the program and the language barrier is not helping and this stake does not have a specialist to assist, so the program is suffering in Iloilo Stake.
Sunday we attended Mandurreao Ward at 8:30; took Sister Cagape with us at 10 to North Stake Conference.  It was a Sunday of feasting.  There was a visiting authority, Elder Novleza; he is Filipino.  What I understood was so inspiring.  "Feast" upon the words of Christ:  feast--eat more than usual, not how many times you read, but how much you take inside(absorb).  And the Holy Ghost ...keep the commandments and He will bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.  How can it be brought to your remembrance if you have not read and pondered?  FHE
Are you having it?  Every week?  And then a TO DO list:  ...... check, Check, Check.
TO BE LIST:  part of your nature, your character.  It cannot be checked off but must be worked at diligently(consistent, steady, earnest, energetic effort). PMG 6 attributes
TO DO/TO BE equals interdependent doctrine.
Another talk was about "conversion" :  when we are converted, we carry the love of God within us.  Am I in the process of conversion?  Give up all that I have--all my sins ....to know Jesus Christ.  It is not easy but it is worth it.  Push ourselves; be diligent.  A story was told about Elder Bednar and a blessing he was about to give and he asked the sick, "Do you have the faith to be healed?" "Yes." "Do you have the faith NOT to be healed?"  To accept God's will.  After all that, Sister Cagape fed us at her apartment along with all the missionaries from our district.  Then we returned to LaPaz and did "My Path" with about 20 plus.  There was a young mutual-aged girl I handed a booklet to and the couple by her grabbed it from her and said to me, "She can't read".  Her head dropped and she just looked down.  My heart was just crushed with hers.  I found a "Foundations" booklet.  It has some small pictures in it and I took it to her to look at.  The couple grabbed that from her.  They looked at it and I went back and retrieved it and handed it to the girl again and asked "Can she look at pictures?"  I thought they were her parents but as I inquired, they said, "no" her mother is that older lady and they pointed her out.  I spoke with her mother.  She said she had given her birth at 41, so she has disabilities.  I told her I had given birth at 42 and 45 and both those children are serving missions right now!  She is not to blame but The Lord gave her this daughter, a gift of purity to be returned to her Father in Heaven.  She has a strong, good, loving heart.  It occurred to me later how the unkindness had affected my whole experience with the devotional.  Whatever the girls' disabilities, she has feelings and knows and feels when others are unkind.  It brought me back to my previous thought:  "When we are converted, we carry the love of God within us."
Monday we went into the Center and talked with the little Perry's on hangouts and then President Aquino called us in.  The Session couple is going home for health reasons after one year!  We will miss them.  They are the longest serving couple here.  Then we went shopping for fruits to make into a salad as we were invited to Cuzzens for a farewell dinner for Nat tonight.  Brother Cuzzens is an American and she is Filipino. Their daughter, Aiko is part Japanese/Filipino, and her friend Nathan Gustilo has been a member one year and his talks sound like a returned missionary.  He is going to Cayagan, Philippines Mission.  Brother Cuzzens has been a contractor and has worked all over the world...sometimes in the Middle East.  He has some scary stories.  He entertained us about five hours with stories and of course, a house tour with all the remodeling and mud flood details from the "Frank" typhoon in which a dam broke.
Tuesday we had district meeting then the district went to eat but we didn't have time.  We had English testing and preparing for Boiser.  We met with all the couples at the mission office and when the testing was done, we went to the Promenade, top of the Atrium, to eat together for the last time with Sessions.  We ate and visited for a short time and we had to go to the Center for our meeting.  At the meeting, it was announced that the Cadiz couple, PEF, were released as service missionaries.  Boiser suggested that we might be transferred to Antique where the Sessions were and do our work from there.  I was excited.  They live in a real house, nice too.  And they have Internet that works!  Ray couldn't sleep.  He doesn't like change and doesn't want to move.  We both thought the Mission President would ask us to move, but he didn't so...  I think he doesn't know he can make that request.
Wednesday in the Jalandoni church, the Institute and Center, Boiser did training from 9-5 with meal and snack breaks, attending were Roxas 5, Kalibo 5, Iloilo North 5, Antique 5, Guimaras 0, Iloilo 3 am and 1pm. I was disappointed in Iloilo for not showing up well.  Boiser talked in Ilongo so they all enjoyed it.  He is very entertaining.  He brought his wife's brother for a chef.  The food was great!  He used our little kitchen to prepare.