Hey,Hey!
so here are a couple of pictures, i hope that they are okay and the quality isn't to bad. One of them is with me and the sign for the golf course and the other one is the baptism that we just had on Saturday. The mans name is Dominidor Gasper and he is in the army transporting people to different places depending on where they need to go. So to answer your questions... the area is packed with people and there are lots of cars!!!! The pollution is pretty bad at times and its really noisy. The peoples homes vary in size and they are all made differently. Cement is about the only thing used for the floors, the walls,and well everything. If its not cement its some kind of a wooden thing that I'm not sure what they call it. Bamboo and then some kind of woven straw for the roof. If the house has tile that means that the people are fairly well off and there are some really really nice houses here its really amazing to see a little tiny house next to a huge House that has its own compound. The People do a lot of different jobs here for income. Some just drive people around all day, some dentists, doctors, teachers, babysitters. Its about the same as in America but the pay scale is really different. If a person is making about 5000 pesos a week that's really good. Some of the people are nice to the Americans and others are not so nice. It's funny most people are scared of us so we don't really have any problems. Well except I got shot in the head by some kids air soft gun while he was driving by (it didn't really hurt but we felt like scaring the taé out of him)!! So we ran after the tricycle and when we got to the house that it was parked at my companion talked to the parents and then the kid came out and he about fainted when he saw that it was us! Oh it was really funny and then the parent yelled at the kid and he got busted! My companion was laughing so hard and I thought it was pretty funny as well. So back to the questions you have asked... no one asks about our name tags unless we are having a conversation with them. The girls all think that we are very handsome (they are correct) and sometimes they take it a little to far and say some really bad stuff to us. (would make you blush Mom). Then there are other times the older ladies tell us "maganda ang mga mata mo" which means your eyes are beautiful.... awkward!!!! We just smile and leave haha.
So it finally has been raining and cooled down a little bit so that's great news. Lets see.... this week has gone by really fast its crazy I have been in Ilagan for 2 months tomorrow and 4 months yesterday since my mission began. Wow time has been flying and I really am glad I am here.
I got and email from Blair and he said the Ty has been out for 6 months - that seems crazy!
So our baptism went great and all was well. We have 2 more for the 12th of December and we should have 2 more for about the same time. We will give them a baptismal date this week and I am very happy for them all.
So whats everyone been up to this week? Hows school and work going?
Oh one thing that would be helpful that you could send me would be some really good face wash. The stuff here is terrible, so that would be really nice to have.
Thanks for everything! I love you all!
Love Elder Mulliner
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