Beach in Philippines with Clint Dec., 2011

We took a boat to a small white sand beach to spend a few hours with Clint.  Another beautiful day!

This is Sister Escalona and Sister Grow.  They were the missionaries in the area that knew how to get us to this beach.  They were great sports and they are very good missionaries!

The lighting was a little too bright, but you can get the picture!  A nice little beach!

Checking it out!  Not sure if he wants to swim with the baby jellyfish!

Enjoying his fresh coconut milk!?

On the boat ride to the island! 

It took us about an hour to get there by this small motor boat.

Clint playing frisbee with the a couple of the young men that brought us on the boat.

Isn't this beautiful!

This is one side of the cave we went in to explore.

Here are some of the young men that helped with our transportation (on the boat) to the island.  They played frisbee, volleyball and even a game we call, "Spit in the Eye"...which is a fun category game we used to play with the kids growing up!  They were good sports and a lot of fun!

The man in the center is the owner and driver of the boat.  They are all members of the branch there.

Golfing in The Philippines! Dec. 27, 2011

It's such a beautiful day in the Philippines!  A cool breeze the whole day.  Clint & Dad along with Elder Packer were enjoying the beautiful surroundings!  Sister Packer and I enjoyed watching them from our own Golf cart.  I thought it was great fun...like ride go-carts around the path!

This is a beautiful golf course.  Picture taking doesn't do it justice.  It is so much prettier in person!

As you can tell by the palm trees, it is a bit windy.  However, it was beautiful weather...the coolest I have ever been in the Philippines San Pablo Mission!  (Baguio, of course, was a bit cooler than that, but that was out of our mission area)

Here they are...Clint, Dad, and Elder Packer with their caddy girls!  They marked their balls, "found" their balls, brought them their clubs and wiped them clean.  Those ladies knew the course well.  They could tell them exactly how far to the greens, etc.  Yeah, they had it really easy!  It sure was fun though.

Trying to help a fellow out!

One of Clint's beautiful shots!

The great long putt!

Such concentration!!

I think Clint is enjoying himself!

It was a great day!

Working with the Sisters! Dec, 21, 2011

This was a fun day working the the sisters from Bauan area in Batangas zone.  I got to go with Sister Matanghi and Sister Tacbobo to teach this beautiful family.  The son is 11 yrs. old and the daughter is 10.  They were all so sweet!

Christmas Zone Conference 3rd day

It was a bright sunny day for this picture!  This is our third and last day of zone conferences with the Lipa, Batanga, and Marinduque zones.

Sister Merdegia & I enjoying the meal!  Her husband is a counselor to George.  I wish we could find another.  They are a wonderful asset to the mission and so helpful to President!  ...Not a good hair day for me!  ...Not too many are in this weather!  (Oh well...)

Elder Diaz and Elder Yelle are happy it's time to eat!

Elder Villnueva, Elder Delfin, Elder Tagulao and a visiter.

Elder Yost & Elder Navarro, from Mindoro Zone, acting out campanionship study...talking about what President Peterson is expecting of them...

Then, the whole zone got up and started singing the 12 days of Christmas..."President Peterson said to me"...And called off all the different sayings and counsel he has been giving since we got here.  It was so cute and so funny!  Very well done!  Here is part of the group, Elder Johnson, Elder Guyer, Elder Navarro, and Elder Yost.

More of the group...Sister Tumaliuan, Sister Guzman, and Sister Pascual.

Here is the whole Mindoro Zone doing the 12 days of Christmas!

Except for Sister Osborn...She was on the piano.  I think, with some input from the others, she pretty much wrote the words the song.  They had a ball performing it.  It was a big hit!

This is Elder knight accompanying the Batangus Zone on their musical number.

Batangas Zone

Sister Baby (Katrina) and her Brother accompanying the Lipa Zone.

The Lipa Zone singing their special Christmas carol.  They have some really good singers in their group!

The Calamasi race again!

Elder Navarro...very steady!

Sister Tumaliuan passing to Sister Campbell.

There Sister Campbell goes!  She made it without a spill!

Sister Matanghi passes to Sister Packer!

Look at Sister Packer go!  I am telling you...us seniors didn't slow anybody down!  We kept the teams going at a good fast pace!

Elder Packer has the right form!

Now the favorite game starts..."Do You Love Your Neighbor".

President and Sister Merdegia were good sports and played the games too!  They look like they are enjoying themselves, right?

Sister Campbell always knows how to have a good time!

The missionaries love the story I read that gets them to pass their gifts right or left until the story finally stops and they get to open the gift.  They each brought a 200 peso gift to exchange.

Elder Tagulao, Sister Tumaliuan and Sister Osborn.

Even Sister Baby (Katrina) and her brother got in on the gift exchange!

Elder Cortez, Elder Roxas, Elder Navarro, Elder Perez, and Elder Alinsoot. 

Feeling badly, Sister Tacbobo and Sister Mantanghi missed being in the group shot outside.  They were in the ladies room as we took the picture.  We didn't realize they weren't there.