5.24.15

Dear Family,

We love, love the Fathers day Gift! Friday night we watched one of the videos, and laughed, and cried and enjoyed our memories with our wonderful family! We watched a fun family reunion at Wagstaff ranch, playing in the large stream behind the house, everyone was there, and Richmond was the youngest, just a little baby! Now look at him, preparing for a mission, all the grandchildren so cute! There was a basket ball game on the driveway, with Jason and Dad verses Susie and Doug! So fun. a full game! Susie and Doug won! Everyone looks so young! A New years eve party, dancing and etc! Thank you so much, for all the efforts put into getting these family movies so we can view them! We love you all and Thanks!

Every mission is different, and this one is for us in comparison with our last one, where we were out among the people and the missionaries,gave a ton of talks and workshops and bore testimony all the time, and saw more of the way the Filipinos  live and we served along side them!  We are still very involved in the work now as well, but our work is coming to an office every day, and associating with the Travel team that consists of 5 young ladies and about 7 young men,this is their job, not missionaries, all of them Filipino, and they talk all the time in their language, and I can't blame them! We love them and they are so very helpful and wonderful, and fun! They love when dad brings in chocolate or candy for them! Which he does often! They are the nicest people and we love the association we have! Occasionally we see and have contact with other American couples that work in other departments in our building and the surrounding buildings! 

Richard is always busy, here at the office as well as at our home office, working with Mission Presidents, and arranging travel for missionaries, going home, getting approval from all he needs to get that from, informing everyone involved and etc! Never ending service! 

I find things to do to keep me busy! I go with other Sisters to Mabuhay House  one day a week, help interview missionaries going to the US Embassy, serve at the temple by folding laundry, do initiatory, and we try to get a session in a week! I am hoping to get on to do a shift on Wed. Morning, and be an ordinance worker! I work at the MTC on intake day which is every other Friday! I help with the Public affairs, putting together kits, button, or what ever they are doing at the time! I have done filing at the area office, I work on the CLS program with the mission Presidents wife! I help dad a lot, and serve where ever I am needed! At the end of the day we go home, and eat, sometimes walk around Eastwood, depending on Richards work, and study together,sometimes watch a little TV, go to bed, and start all over!  We love being missionaries and doing the work assigned to us on this mission! We are happy and so enjoying this time together! We love the knew friends we meet, and the old ones that show up all the time! 

Last Sat. morning we had a ward party at the American Embassy swimming pool and party area! Richard helped cook  hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill,I took a salad, and we rode with other couples from the mission! After the ward party, we went to the Aquarium and had a good time there with other couples that met up with us there! There was a fantastic water fountain show to music, that was amazing! Such a fun day! 

Sunday morning we went with Elder and Sister Lacanienta to celebrate Memorial day at the American Cemetery! It was a beautiful morning and the reverence and spirit was felt there as we honored the service men that gave their lives for our country! I think we took the 12 Andersons there when they came over in November! Do you remember! Then we went to our Stake Conference, which was so good, and we enjoyed a wonderful spirit there!

Our team had another volley ball game last night, and it was so fun  the crushers won again and I wore my t shirt! It was fun, and sure helps to get to know the people that work on your floor, that you see almost every day!

Just read over this letter, and it is a little boring, but that is our mission and we love it and we are having a good time, and we are happy! We miss everyone of course, but it is so nice to get to see you on Skype or face time, and talk to you so frequently! We are speaking in one of the wards in Sacrament meeting on Sunday, so I have read more Conference talks and Scriptures and enjoying the preparation for that!

We are going over to the temple now to do a session, so I better close, and tell you  that we Love you all so much, and you bring so much happiness and joy into our lives! Please take care of each other, and love and respect each other! Have a wonderful time at Wagstaffs on Sunday, and eat a good hamburger for us! Thanks for your prayers and love and support! We can feel it!

Missionary work is amazing, and we love it!

Love, Mom and Dad,

Grandpa and Grandma, 

Elder and Sister Anderson

Week 13...5.21.15

Hi everyone! Today, is a day I think about my wonderful mother, and your Grandma Hatch, and Great Grandma Hatch not only today, but almost every day I think it would be marvelous to just get to talk to her, and feel of her love and powerful faith that you could feel when you were in her presence! It is her Birthday, and she was born 105 years ago today! Oh how I miss her! I am so grateful I was blessed with a Christlike  mother, who I love and admire, and who has made such an impact in my life, and in yours! She was also  a lot of fun! What a great heritage dad and mom left!

We enjoyed last Sunday with our missionary sister that stayed with us before, and she and her friend stayed Sunday night again, and left for the airport and home on Monday! It was fun to have company!

Sat. afternoon, we had a mission reunion! What a fantastic time! We had a wonderful turnout, and saw so many missionaries and met their eternal companions, and even some of their children! We had a delicious meal catered, and sat around and visited, and loved and shared the experiences we had in the mission field together, along with a little spiritual message from us! It was a great day, and an incredible success !We love them and they love us and we are all trying to be good disciples to our Heavenly Father as we continue to hasten the work!

Dad bought me a blender so we could make mango shakes and other things. I wouldn't let him buy the nicer one, cause we have to leave it here, and made him buy me the cheapest one. Well it doesn't chop ice very well, there are always big chunks of ice in the shakes! Last night I decided to crush the ice, and then blend it! I found a meat tenderizer in my cupboard, so I went to pounding, and my thumb got in the way! Ouch! I have been in so much pain! It went right through the fingernail, and into the skin! My whole hand just throb-ed all night! I had to take Tylenol, ice it and elevate it, nothing helped! It feels so much better today, with ibuprofen. It is very tender, and the skin is dark under the nail, and I have no strength in it! When it was throb-en, I couldn't help but think about Jordan and his foot! How painful that must be! I should have spent a few more dollars for the blender!

We got  a package from Emily and Susie  on Tuesday! We had so much fun getting the things we left behind, that Emily sent on, and then my mothers day gifts,a pair of pj's a night gown, music CD's, a scrubber, and some great treats! Just like Christmas! Today a brother brought in a package from Katie and Doug, and he gave dad a big bear hug from Doug! This package was a Fathers day gift from all of you, and we were thrilled with the video's and can't wait to watch them! What a surprise, and something we have wanted to do for ever! Thank you all so much! We have the best Children! We love the gift, and will enjoy them for the next 2 years! We really can't believe you did that, reviewed them, and labeled them! Thanks so much! Then later today, a package came to us that has been in the mail for over a month! Yes Angie, I finally got my mothers day gift, and our apartment is going to look so good with a little home touch! Thanks for the flowers, towels, dishrags, place mats, and cups and especially the note! It was a wonderful mothers day, and I loved celebrating it late! We also loved all the Skypes, Messages and phone calls, we love you all! We have a wonderful family!

Do you remember me telling you we were measured for shirts, so  I could be cheer leader, and dad could be manager for our travel volley ball team! We got our shirts yesterday, and the games were last night on the Courts in the MTC Parking lot! My goodness we had the vice Mayor there, and some Philippine celebrates that sang to us, they had to repeat an oath together,and then they had some instructions on how to play volleyball! It started at 5 and finally at 6:30 we were ready for the first game! Our team is the Crushers, and we did just that! It was real fun, and these people know how to have fun! They also had loud music going and a commentator with a loud speaker! It was a beautiful evening, hot but with a very comfortable breeze! Fun night! We have to cheer them on every Wed. night now for a couple of months! Our team consists of the girls that work in travel, and on the 1st floor! They wanted me to play, but you know!!! I cheer better!

Last week, Dad was really busy, because we had a sister that passed away in her mission because of  a problem that caused her to be septic, and they were not aware of it, and the poison in her body caused her to have heart failure! She was gone before we could get help to her! So sad, but because we had a death in our mission when we were serving, Dad was so helpful to the leaders and Mission President! Everyday is a new thing, and a new experience!

As you can tell we are doing great, and serving to the best of our ability! We love the work, and dad is so very busy, and probably the cutest companion a person could ever have! We are humbled every day with what we see,hear and learn! We enjoyed a session at the Temple on Tuesday, and we are so grateful there is a temple so close! Wish I had some Family names  to do! We appreciate and love all of you , and so grateful for your prayers and support! By the way , all your names are in the Manila Temple, and you are being prayed for by the faithful saints of the Philippines!

We love you all, love, Mom and Dad, Grandpa and Grandma

juju....

We live in a very upbeat techie community called Eastwood! This is one of the eating establishments! Every time we walk by it we are reminded of our Julia! 

Love ya all,

Dad

love and laughter 5.8.15

Hi Susie, How are you doing? Are prayers are with you with your girls camp assignment, and everything else going on in your life!! I didn't send this little e-mail to everyone, but I thought it would be interesting to have in our blog, and in the book I will eventually make from the blog. By the way, thank you for doing the blog! I hope it is not to hard! Sure love you!

Love, Mom

Love and Laughter In the Philippines!

May 8, 2015

We have been having so much fun doing some of our children’s programs lately!  We go every Tuesday as you know to visit the Mabuhay House – for children who are waiting to receive their surgeries to repair their cleft lips, club feet, and strabismus(cross-eyes) or cataracts.  This past Tuesday we had Professor Thomas visit us from New Zealand.  This darling man who is a doctor and a performer has founded a school for clown-doctors and goes around the world helping make children laugh.  He teaches the philosophy that smiling and laughter help us heal!  I believe him!  He also teaches that we laugh when we see other’s mistakes (as after all, none of us are perfect!).  He also demonstrates how doing the unexpected makes people laugh, like when you try to shake hands with someone and their hand keeps dodging yours!  Or when you use your crutches to be guitars!!  I have some funny videos but they are too big to put on here – so just use your imaginations!

Put a red nose on someone – and you are bound to make people laugh.  Below,Prof Thomas told Sis. Anderson and I to sing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” – by Mozart (no less) and to introduce ourselves as sisters from Las Vegas.  The biggest requirement was that we had to sing and do our actions in exact synchrony – nothing varying – which of course was impossible, as we learned after doing it about 5 times for everyone!  Oh what laughter at our expense!

Prof Thomas with 12 year old Balong – who just got pins in his legs and had been crying every night, but laughed and laughed with our friend here.

We had a full house with 17 children plus their mothers and parents.  So much fun!

Trisha – who finally had her surgery to fix her leg!  She is 8 years old and the brightest sunshine ever.

The doctors come here and do some of the simple club feet surgeries right here on the kitchen table!

We also did our first Missionary Love and Laughter Program at the Philippines Children Medical Center (PCMC).  We went to the Oncology (cancer) out-patient kids who were on chemotherapy and then went inside and did a shorter program for the inpatient kids with cancer.  There were about 15 of us missionaries and basically we did a Primary Sharing Time – with fun songs, action games, a big storybook telling about kindness, and treats at the end to a group of about 50 or 60 people.  We gave cracker treats to the Outpatient kids, and stuffed Teddy Bears to the in-bed children. The great thing about it was that as always - the whole thing was totally inspired by Heavenly Father and the theme was too!  I had been fasting and praying to know what Heavenly Father wanted us to talk about on Thursday.  I was rummaging through some old piano sheet music on Sunday and found this song called “The Family is of God” – which I didn’t know.  When I played it on the piano, and some of the sisters here began to sing it, I got goosebumps all over and tears filled my eyes and I knew this was the theme we needed to talk about with the children.  Families….and the roles of fathers, mothers, and everyone.  It was perfect. The Spirit in the room was really strong when the missionaries sang it at the end.  The person in charge asked that we say a prayer for the children (which would have never happened in the USA) so we ended with a prayer for the children and their families.

It was a program with lots of love and lots of laughter.  We used ukuleles, a piano keyboard, and our voices to welcome them in English and Tagalog, talk about kindness in families, and even act out The Three Little Bears (which I am sorry but I don’t have a picture of).  Then when the Elders hadn’t been able to come up with a magic trick, it was up to me to teach the children how to wash their eyeballs….what else could I do?  They laughed and giggled as they watched me wash mine!

Here’s Elder Cuillard with one of the children inside the hospital.

Elder Cuillard, Elder Contes, Sis. Garrett and another QC missionary inside

They could let only 5 of us go inside, but they told us we could visit with them and sing songs to them from the windows. J

Our missionaries opened their mouths and taught people about the wonderful Plan of Salvation – that families can be together forever.  They wrote down names of referrals, gave out pamphlets and even a Book of Mormon or two – getting commitments that they would read it and ask for themselves if it was true.

(Sis Yunack, Sis Garrett, Me, Elder Cuillard, Elder ?, and Melvin – our Maintenance man that was the Papa Bear in our Three Little Bears Song!)

How wonderful it is to share the joy of the gospel with these wonderful brothers and sisters of ours in the Philippines.  We love them and are so grateful to our Father in Heaven for His glorious Plan of Happiness!  May we all read and study the scriptures daily, pray always and fill our lives with service. Right WILL overcome evil! J

Love you all!

Elder and Sister K, Dad and Mom, Grandpa and Gramma, Carolyn and Ron

5.11.13

These are the couples we work with in this office  area! The ones in blue had wheelchair assignments and activities, so they were out and about all day! This was after our Family Home Evening Monday night! Great Group, all so talented in what they do!!st Couple in green dress, Pyles, Public affairs, 2nd Lacanienta, executive secretary to Area Presidency, 3rd. Lemons, she is a nurse for Manilla mission and he is over Legal, Arners, AMA, Area Medical Advisor, us, IFR, Morrisons, AMA,  Kesteler MRC, medical recovery center. The tall one in back is Mental health, and his wife was on an assignment! the others President Howard and Boycee!

May 11, 2015

Family Home Evening

Area Zone Senior Missionaries

(Sister Garrett – not pictured because she was on assignment)

Thanks for posing.

You all look great!

5.13.15

Hi everyone,  Thank you for all the mothers day messages I received, they were so nice, and really made my day! I feel so blessed! Like I said in letter Week 10, thanks for the influence you have  been in my life, and the example all of you have had on me of Motherhood! 

Friday we were contacted by one of our Sister Missionaries that said she was in town and could she stay with us! I cleaned up the apartment, and Richard ran to the market and bought some mango juice, food and etc for breakfast, and we thought she and a friend would be there about 7. They didn't make connections, so by 9:00 we went out and bought a pizza for them, came back and finally at 11:00 they text and said they were trying to find our tower, so we ran down to the front and found them and their suitcases, and brought them up to our apartment! They were starving and loved the pizzas, we gave them a couple of sheets , and showed them where they could sleep, and we went to bed! It was way past our bed time! So good to see them and have company! After Breakfast, we went down to the lobby with them, and Richard, got a Taxi and sent them on their way! They will be back Friday night to stay with us again! I think they are staying Friday, Sat. And Sunday night, and they fly out on Monday morning!

Speaking of Mothers Day, on Sat. afternoon, Dad and I walked about 2 miles in our missionary attire, along the C-5 free way up a couple flight of stairs, then on a walkway over the freeway, then down a few flight of stairs on the other side and finally got to Out Back Steakhouse, where we enjoyed a wonderful American Mothers day meal of Salmon and Steak! We enjoyed our meal and each other, and the air-con  restaurant, then back out in the heat to repeat our walk back to Eastwood! Then that evening we went for a walk in Eastwood to get some rolls for dinner on Sunday, and we got caught in a thunder,( I have never heard such thunder, so loud and roaring for long periods of time,) and lightning storm, and rain in sheets! It was so fun, we were clear on the opposite side of town from our apartment, and had to go through big puddles, and heavy down pour, and try to walk under awnings from the buildings, we were so wet when we got home! It was so warm, and kind of enjoyable walking in the rain! Then Sunday was a Wonderful, Special Mothers Day! When we got to our church at 1:00 PM for Sacrament meeting, there stood President Mark Howard, A Mission President we served with, and became very good friends! So good to see him, and he had been waiting all day for us to show  up at Church!   Dad and I missed all of our children, but loved your  phone calls and emails, and we love you! 

They are laying sod outside our building now on that nice sifted dirt, and the sod is 2 inch pieces, it is amazing, they just fit these little pieces in and pat them down, couldn't believe it! I will send a picture!

We had family home evening with the couples on Monday night, and President Howard showed up for that! It was a fun night with a good pot luck, and program, and a little visiting!  Then on Tuesday night He wanted to meet us for dinner, with the Lacanienta's! Good to see him!

We have been busy and  working with some of our missionaries on putting together a Mission Reunion this Sat.! We are looking forward to the reunion, and seeing so many of our Filipino Missionaries, and hope and pray everything turns out as planned!

We are busy, but loving the work, and happy we are on a mission! Dad is so up beat and positive, and is always complementing the Mission Presidents on their good work , even though they have problem missionaries every now and then! It is so nice being involved in making things right! I am so grateful for our daily study of the Book of Mormon together, and the spirit we feel as we continue to learn more about our Heavenly Fathers love for us! Grateful for conference talks, the church magazines, and Preach my Gospel, still so much out there to learn!  Having a living Prophet is blessing our lives, and we pray for him, and the others, especially Elder Scott and Elder Perry! Oh how we love those men!

We love all of you and give thanks to Heavenly Father for you and all you are doing, and we pray for you in our every prayer! We are so blessed, and are so mindful of our blessings! Thanks for your prayers and support! Write when you can! Love to hear about what is going on in your lives!

Love, Elder and Sister Anderson, Mom and Dad

Happy Mothers Day....

Hi all of our wonderful daughters, Angie, Aimee, Heidi, Jen, Emily, Katie, and Susie!

We are so blessed to have you marvelous daughters and mothers in our lives! every one of you are so wonderful, and amazing and always leading your families in righteousness! 

We love you all so very much, and feel  so incredible lucky to have such a beautiful , outstanding, and loving family, and it all stems from your goodness and sensitivity to each other and family!

Dad and I are so grateful for the mothers in our lives that have taught us how we should live the Gospel of Jesus Christ and raise our children! It has brought much joy in my life to be a mother and grandmother, and I thank Heavenly Father everyday for that blessing he gave me, and for your wonderful father who helped make it all possible! That is my favorite calling in life! 

You are incredible daughters and daughters-in-law! The Lord has bless dad and I so much having you in our lives! You are all so good, thoughtful to us and supportive, and you even put up with us! Thank you for the marvelous mothers you are to our grandchildren, we love every one of them as well! We love all of your husbands too! We are so blessed, and we want to let the Lord know how grateful for the blessings he has provided for us, so we are in the Philippines doing his work, and continue to receive blessings! It seems we can never do enough to show our gratitude!

Thank you for  all you do for us, and especially for your prayers, and the good lives you lead, that is what brings the happiness! We love you all more than you will ever know, and always give thanks for you!

We are excited for Jason and Heidi, to get to see and talk to Julia, and for Brad and Aimee to see and talk to Davis on Mothers Day! We can't wait to hear all about those conversations!  We pray for those missionaries and Richmond and all others that are preparing to go! That is another blessing in our lives! Missionaries are wonderful, and we pray they can endure to the end, as well as us!

So grateful for the plan of Happiness, and the knowledge I have that The Lord knows and loves  each one of us, and is watching over us! 

Happy Mothers day to all, and hope you have an awesome day! Thanks for your calls and messages! Love you all!

Love, Mom, and Dad

Week 10...5.6.15

Dear Family,

Week 10 was an interesting week! It has been extremely hot here, and have even had the advice to not go out in the polluted air and heat, especially to exercise! We have a nice cool office, and go out to get warmed up, and come back in! Also it was another Holiday on April 1, their Labor day!

On Wed morning we went with a group of couples to the Beehive Clothing factory! That was an amazing tour, and so fascinating! 4,000 plus garments are made every day! They get the material here in the Philippines for the womens and mens cotton garments! The US sends the lace, thread, and elastic! They make them, package them, and send them back to America! It was very interesting, and I could not believe how they cut them out and every station sews different parts, and they are all so fast! They hire 41 employees and they all have to have current temple recommends, what a special place! The men came back to their offices, and we went on to tour another area of making wheelchairs, and wood toys, by hand, and everyone was in a wheelchair, in out side buildings, and it was so hot! It was interesting, but the traffic was terrible and took longer, and Richard was lucky he came back early!  

On Thursday and Friday, We didn't leave the apartment. Richard was pretty sick with the flu or something else, he worked in the office from home the whole time, but he didn't feel good, By Sat. we went out and got his hair cut, and you could tell he had been sick, he was still pretty weak, and lost about 7 lbs, and it didn't take us long to walk back to our apartment! No Fun! I got the house cleaned, wash done, ironing done,did a lot of reading, left him once and went walking around Eastwood! He wasn't eating, so I didn't do much cooking! Just relaxed and took care of my wonderful companion!

It was good to be back to the office on Monday! Tuesday, they made arrangements to have a clown Dr. go to Mabuhay house, so we, by we, I mean , there are about 5 Sisters, whose husbands work in the area, as the AMA, or at the MRC, went  in the afternoon! The children and adults loved him and were very entertained! There were 17 children there with their parents,which is a lot of people for that house! The children were so happy to see us again! When I got back to the office, Richard said we had been invited to a Global Affair with all the Ambassadors in the Philippines! It was at a very fancy Hotel, and a very nice event! We rushed home, and got dressed in a suit, and my best, and a couple picked us up, and we were off! It was a public affairs thing for us, to mingle with the rich people and be friendly and to represent America and the Church! We talked to several Ambassadors, ate  delicious finger foods, I mean like the best roast, shrimp on sticks, deserts, breads, little bit of everything! Everyone in, in fancy dresses and suits! We just mingled and ate, walking around, talking to everyone, proudly wearing our name tags! Then there was a program of  a fashion show where the Lady and Men Ambassadors did a modeling show! It was to earn money for Tacloban Flood victims, and etc! They had a lot of sponsors, and It was entertaining and fun to me! Richard thought the fashion show went a little long! We had a great time, and enjoyed the experience! It was a late night for us though!

They are promoting MEET THE MORMONS here in the Philippines, and they have had a Filipino celebrity from America here! He came here on his mission,  and he comes to the public affairs office and helps with the promotion, and everyone gets so excited, when he comes to the office, they love him in the Philippines, I didn't even know about him! Anyway it has been fun and we  had our picture taken with him! His name is Dwaine Woolley!

Like I said, it has been a fun busy week, full of work, service, miracles, and doing the Lords work!  The best part is the Spirit we feel as we do what we do, and serve with other missionaries and talk and help Mission Presidents and the Area Presidency! We are happy and content as we continue to see missionaries and people we know and love from the past! Richard is ever busy, and is on the computer, almost from the time he gets up, till he goes to bed! It is amazing work and he is understanding his responsibilities more every day! I am so proud of him! 

We want to wish all of you Mothers a Happy Mothers Day, and thank you for the influence you have been in our lives, we love you all and give thanks for such a wonderful family! Thanks again for your prayers and support!

Love,

Elder and Sister Anderson

2 months plus...4.28.25

Hi Family! It has been a while, but Richard wrote after our wonderful Mission Presidents Seminar, so now I am back! The MP Seminar was such a spiritual lift for us, and we were so well taught by our Area Presidents, which includes Elder Ian Ardern, and Elder Shane Bowen! Elder Echohawk was also here for our first 2 months, but he has some Health problems, so we will be getting a new member of the Presidency in August! It was a wonderful time, with a  lovely hotel room, food every time we turned around, and the best company!

They are putting a sprinkler system in the grounds just out side our window, here at the office. I have watched them as they have dug up the grass, raked it and seperated the grass from the dirt, pick it up and haul it off, Till and losen the dirt, and today they have a screen on a stand, and they are shoveling the dirt on the screen, and it filters to the ground, with no rocks or clumps! I want to go out there so bad, and sift the dirt with them! that has always fastinated me to sift the sand and feel it so free of other obsticals as I put my hands and toes through the soft dirt or sand, and it feels so good! Funny huh! I could have some fun with the grandkids doing that! Well, a picture in my mind!

Dad and I just had lunch with another couple to a place quite close by, and it took us an hour to get there, and 10 minutes to get home! The traffic was so bad, it is unbelieveable! Dad is good at driving tho- scares me, but he manevuers all around and gets us there, with out any scratches or dents!!I'm so proud of him!

I went to the Mabuhay House on Tuesday, and there were quite a few children there, they had casts on for their club feet, and a darling little 2 year old that had his cleft pallett fixed, and doing so well! They are all so sweet, and so happy to see us come and play with them for a while! It is fun for me too, and always makes me grateful for all my blessings! One of our RM Sister Missionary called and ask dad for a Priesthood blessing, and so we arranged to go to her ward last Sunday! There was a lady there that recognized me and came and gave me a hug! She was a lady I met at Babuhay that had a double cleft palete fixed, and I didn't know she was a member! She latched on to me, and was so glad to meet dad, she has one more surgery and then she can go back to her provence! She is so hard to understand as she has lived her 33 years with a double cleft palete! Hopefully I will see her tomorrow at Mabuhay and take a picture! She made me feel good, and thinks I look like I am in my early 50's! 

 Some of the other Sisters and I walk over to the Temple and fold clothes in the laundry room on some days, and it is a wonderful experience to serve there with the workers! One man scrubs every shirt collar, and the neck of every dress individually, by hand! The temple clothes are so white and it is a special spirit as I serve there! Dad and I participated in a session on Thursday as well! So grateful to have a temple across the street from us!

It was so fun to work in the MTC on Friday, and see all the exciting new missionaries and families say good by and then start their missions! I get a kick out of them getting their shots, they are so afraid it is going to hurt, sometimes I have to hold their hands! My job is to record the shots they get, and then file their card! We give them cookies after their shots, and I get to eat all the broken ones, which isn't good for me, but they are so tasty! Then Dad and I are invited to eat at the MTC for lunch for my service that morning! We have a good time, and once again are getting familiar with the Filipino food!

Every day we run into missionaries we know and it is like a reunion, each time! It is so great to see them and hear about their lives and what they are doing! Friday night we met the other couples at one of the resturantes in Eastwood for dinner, and it is fun to visit and eat with them! However it was a vietnamese place, and by the end of the day, Dad was tired of rice and the strange food! Fun though and I told him he needs to be more adventureous!

I went to the Mabuhay house today, and it was full of people that needed help, or their children needed help One mother, had 2 daughters, and 1 son there that had to have cornia transplants, and one of them couldn" hear either! My heart aches for them! They love to sing with us and laugh with us , and talk to us, and take their pictures! they are amazing! One little boy, Balong has been there every since I have been here, and his feet were turned backwards with bones where ankles should be and not recognizable as feet. He has been having slow correction, and last week he had major work done on them! 6 hours of surgery! He always smiles and is so cute! My new friend wasn't there today! I will send some pictures!

Well, I need to finish this up, and besides it is getting too long! Dad and I hear you are getting a little rain, and the weather is so beautiful! Glad Susie and Travis got home from Hawaii, and found their family probably happy to have them home! We love to get Julia, Davis's and Winwards letters, and so thrilled to be doing this great work with you! We so appriciate the prayers and love, we feel that comes from all of you! You can email us any time and keep us posted! Dad is working harder than ever, and seems to know what he is doing, and that has been an answer to prayers! I manage to keep my self busy, with little jobs everyday! We are having a good time and getting to know so many wonderful people, and seeing so many old friends! The Lord is aware of everyone of us and we can feel his guidance in our daily work!

We love you all, continue to let your light shine! Thanks for all your prayers!

Love, Mom and Dad

Elder and Sister Anderson