tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467067209250127172024-03-19T22:54:12.790-07:00Croppers in CebuDean and Mary Anne are on the biggest adventure of our lives, and all in the name of the plan of salvation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646706720925012717.post-22247700473028821942013-04-16T08:26:00.000-07:002013-04-16T08:26:51.475-07:00Tears and memories<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Such an amazing experience. Just after a sacrament mtg.</td></tr>
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The time fast approached when we had to leave the island paradise we
have grown to love so much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It has been a spiritual paradise as well as a tropical island paradise. </span>Last Monday
we drove away in our little truck packed with luggage, memories, and a love for
a people on a little island in the middle of a big blue ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the last time we parked our truck on the
ferry and as we stood on the top balcony we waved good bye to dear friends standing
on the dock, our last crossing to the island of Cebu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We will miss these brothers and sisters we have grown to
love so much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Anne always beat me in the pedicab race</td></tr>
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A mission was such a unique experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had the opportunity to be a part of
people’s lives in two of the most important areas that exist in people’s lives,
their relationship with God and family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because we work with people at this level we get connected in such a
deep way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Here is one last story we'd like to share: well, we can't promise it's the last but . . . </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bro J and Sis M's amazing house on the beach</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awesome family we were teaching just before we came home</td></tr>
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Soon after we first arrived on our mission, we had the
opportunity to help so many that were affected by tyhoon Sendong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one particular area that was hard hit we
worked with the community to repair an elementary school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the process we got to know the barangay captain
(cities are divided into barangays which have their own government but are
still subject to jurisdiction of the city and the captain is elected by the
people in the barangay and is the leader).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We met her husband and son at the elementary school graduation
celebration a few months later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were
able to get an appointment to go to their house to begin teaching the
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of their two children had
previously died at a young age and they were particularly interested in hearing
about the plan of salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We taught
the parents only. The twenty year old son was nice to us but did not have an
interest at that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The parents listened
politely, asked good questions, read and loved the Book of Mormon, but were
not interested in seriously pursuing what we were teaching them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So for about six months we did not teach
them, although, we would see them from time to time and chat on the street or by the
library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About three weeks ago we
made a final attempt to visit them in their home. We
took the elders in our area to introduce them to the family and so they could
continue to teach after we left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the
chemistry was perfect. The son was home because at the last minute his mom had told him he couldn't go to the party he had planned on. The spirit was so strong, everyone had tears, especially
the son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He connected with message and
with his mother and father in a way that surprised us all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are people who are well to do, the
family is very well known in the community, the mother is a politician, the
parents are leaders in “Couples for Christ”, a Catholic organization for
married people to do good in the world. The son is very athletic and very
bright. They are the type of family that would be a great asset in the any ward or
branch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To see this family come together
in each other’s arms with tears, brought on by the Spirit of the scriptures they were exploring was such a miracle. The parents saw the effect
the message had on their son and their level of interest heightened. They have
been reading the scriptures and praying together as a family since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is obvious to the parents and the son that
a significant event has happened because of that visit with the son present. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reminiscing</td></tr>
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The following visit they were all were prepared with their
scripture assignment read and they had great comments and questions on the
readings. Last Friday we taught them for our last time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are in the final stretch of a campaign season that demands a lot of their time, but they asked us to come at 8 am, the only time they could squeeze in, so we could get in one more lesson before we left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord has prepared this family at this
time and we had to leave, but they will be well taught by the zone leaders who are now will carry on in our place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The gospel pulls families together.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The A and the C family saying goodbye at the dock</td></tr>
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We have been so blessed by being a part of this great work
for the past eighteen months. We are now with our family and old friends. We have left our new friends, and we are grieving for that loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our hearts have been knit together through the love of the Savior, a love we have shared--His gospel of life, hope and love. </div>
Trying to describe the end of a mission is really not
possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What have we really learned –
our Heavenly Father and the Savior Jesus Christ have a love for each individual,
a love that can only be described as an eternal and infinite love that we cannot
understand, we can only have gratitude and amazement that we are able to
observe how that love gets manifested in countless small ways.<br />
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After being home for a week we are already talking about our
next mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much we loved our
first!!!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Amlan Branch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little Vincent's baptism</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Returning F family. One of our three former branch presidents</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The children of the A family</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our last Amlan branch outing: part of Sister A's family</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dumaguete 1 branch presidency with families</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zone conference Pres. & Sis. Schmutz</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our last missionaries in Amlan, Elder's V & T</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dropping off a bag of rice before we leave</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Schmutz's and the Cropper's outside their home. Temple behind us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just landed in Medford Oregon. Wow it is cold!! </td></tr>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It is lucky we are scheduled to
come home when we are, because I am quickly bursting out of my clothing, and by
one week more I will be holding things together with nipa fronds. People ask us
if we want to extend our time here, and we say that we are too excited to get
home to family. But add to that the very real possibility that if we extended
even a few more weeks, I would have to come home wrapped in banana leaves! Yes
folks, expect a voluminous version of me when you see us next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's all good--old ladies get to grow mushy,
right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cosmic inequity of it all, of
course, and you can guess already, is that Elder Cropper looks fit and no less
lean that ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I'm certain he eats
more, just in mango calories, than all my calories combined. Life is NOT fair!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, enough catterwauling, I know you will
all come to adore my new chins--we might even name them--and my
triceps-turned-flacid-flesh is going to be a hit with the grandkids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sure liked it on my Grandma.</span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWNRqo49bnUBlsXbbqzGyYqB9hItoK_RD7iQow3l2Kjkn9ZjeHm1oaJO3nDyoyRBgutC1zTE3ypb_lhHVvlPQPOXvcF9XkOP0slOOfXYW1QPk2gp591QqGhFfKJ4hUQ79mTsELuAedPX4/s1600/P1090246.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWNRqo49bnUBlsXbbqzGyYqB9hItoK_RD7iQow3l2Kjkn9ZjeHm1oaJO3nDyoyRBgutC1zTE3ypb_lhHVvlPQPOXvcF9XkOP0slOOfXYW1QPk2gp591QqGhFfKJ4hUQ79mTsELuAedPX4/s1600/P1090246.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If the above is not appropriate
for a missionary blog, please forgive me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I try to tell the truth here in Paradise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We got to attend the 1st birthday
party of a friend of ours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His parents
are about the coolest ever--valiant, faithful, even beautiful (yes, I am on a
shallow bent today) diligent, and they really "get" the gospel
culture that is so hard to replace for traditions of the fathers. I only hope they are not trying too hard to be 'perfect'. They both served missions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They married when they found the
right person, not when it was convenient--they welcomed kids (she is pregnant
with number 2) in spite of very vocal opposition </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">about the
stupidity of that--she traded her passion (she is a national martial arts
champion) for their new life of family, and all in a setting where the voices
to do otherwise are very loud and persuasive. We really admire this little
family.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little family is so great.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The party was a blast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sister G made the cake--it is her new
business she is trying to get going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
extended G. fam put on a feast--huge prawns, whole crabs, and of course a
lechon baboy (spit-roasted pig) and multiple other dishes!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The decorations were darling, the games
</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">dangerous (a version of pinata, but with a clay pot--blind-folding kids with
bats is such a great idea--no wonder we do it) and the videoke going. There
was even a video slide show of little Brother I's first year. A perfect party
for a great kid with a promising future. I knit him a hat, which seems overkill
in this climate, but people really do wear them on those chilly nights that get
down to 78.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elders ready to dig into the lechon baboy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This shrimp was no shrimp</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As I promised, part two of our 3
returning brothers story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The process has been
miraculous. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Brother C, former Branch President of S. Branch, told us when we first
came to see him that the church had been a chapter in his life, but </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">that
chapter is now closed, and he is going on to other things. He only let us in
because we came with an army--his Branch President, the 1st counselor, another
brother from the branch, the sister missionaries and us. We focused only on his
story, and his experiences in the church before, and we brought up nothing
about returning to church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the next
visit, Elder Cropper was sick, so he couldn't go, but we were so grateful that Bro. C had agreed
to see us again, that we didn't want to risk rescheduling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> So, </span>I recruited the sister missionaries who are
assigned to his area, Sister Shahid and Sister Bosio, and I preached to him of the bounty of
Christ's love and the value of His sacrifice and about how it makes no sense to
ignore Christ's poignant plea and command to repent (D &C 19) or suffer as He
suffered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why choose captivity and
death?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He accepted the assignment to
read of repentance and really took in what we taught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sisters both bore powerful testimony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The next time, he told us that he
did not intend to return to church, but he was willing to strengthen his
relationship with the Savior, and to start reading again, which was all we had
asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">After that, things changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elder Cropper and I taught him and his wife
several times over the ensuing weeks. It was slow at first, because he had been so hurt by some dealings with his priesthood leaders. He told us he had spend many bus rides to work weeping about what had happened, and he had decided to just close that chapter and build up a wall in order to cope. But each time we taught him, his countenance softened
and his demeanor brightened, until he informed us on our visit one Sunday that
he had taken his family to church that day!!! Yup, without even our suggesting
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just got up, and while his wife
and kids were preparing for church as they always did, he took a bath and put on his
white shirt and tie and told them to hurry up, he didn't want to be late. It
was his first time in the door in 5 years or more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We had warned them that things
would get tougher before they got easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And they did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The long bottled up
resentment within their relationship came out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He back-slid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was some
anger and some frustration and some big decisions about how to change their
lives to let the gospel back in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Stepping foot inside the building doesn't solve everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we counseled them through it all, and the
Spirit taught them so generously, and they continued to read and pray, so it
has ironed itself all out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We fasted
with them last week, telling them that as they made a huge decision about their
lives, they needed to each be willing to give up their position and submit, not
to the other person's will, but to God's will, and determine what was best for
the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again he shocked us all, and
backed away from a dream of his, deciding he would not allow it to take him away from
leading his family in the gospel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We were flabbergasted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What an amazing decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What pioneers they are. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What trials they have faced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have had reversals, but when people tell
the stories of the folks who 'trekked' to Zion here in the Philippines, their
story will be one of those that is told.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is a text from Brother C, "We have ended our fast too. We will surely treasure those wonderful moments we spend together with my family. You have counseled us a lot and inspired us in many ways. We truly appreciate both of you and you are very special to us. We are going to build this time the C family Phil. Team!" </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next week Elder Cropper will show proper balute eating(fetal cooked duck egg) technique.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Probably our final meeting with the N family. Forty years ago I taught and baptized the woman in the hat, Sis C. who is visiting Cebu from Sacramento where she now lives. Her brother and his wife are in front. I taught him, Bro N., who now serves as a sealer in the Cebu Temple and was made a Patriarch last year. We have such love and respect for this man and what he and his dear wife have made of their lives. They are now our eternal friends<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We are with Dean Edward, Bro N's son named after me. Wow!</td></tr>
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We were visiting with one of the branch presidents and he
told us of a missionary couple in his mission who were on their 7<sup>th</sup>
mission!!!.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yikes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were both in their late 70s and he said
they lived in a place where they had to fetch (haul) their water! He had some
endearing stories of their kinda cute limitations, like her sight wasn’t very
good so she would always mix up the missionaries unless she could actually grab
their name badge and sight in on it. But still he had great respect for
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heck, I mix up the missionaries
and my sight is just fine (ya, with my glasses on). So who knows if we will
still be doing this in another 2 decades.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They just received their mission call from Tanjay branch.</td></tr>
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We will be home in 3 1/2 weeks, and we have the
proverbial mixed emotions. We know that asking "why" is rather futile and often
dangerous--why me? Why now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why
this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we find ourselves asking it
anyway, only not on the murmuring side, more on the stand-all-amazed side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like why did we get to live in this house,
why did we get to use all our skills and still get challenged, but not too
much?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And why did we get to be involved
in helping so many people find the joy of returning to their Savior?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not everyone gets all that on a mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And not all joyful, rewarding experiences can be numbered or measured or
compared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly God has his reasons,
but whatever they are, we are grateful—grateful that we can look at a list and
write down actual names and count up the souls who are now remembering their
covenants to always remember him and reaping the blessings of doing so.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An FHE at Sis B's. We baptized her last year </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You should have heard them sing for their teacher!!</td></tr>
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In addition to Bro. T, from our last post, and more than a
dozen others from throughout our mission, there are 3 men in particular in 3
different branches who we are grateful for of late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of them has a different story, but each
has a couple things in common. They had all separated from the church, and they
had all served as branch presidents in the past. These are men who knew and
understood the gospel, who had studied the scriptures and the handbooks of
instruction and who were converted enough to accept this rather daunting
calling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were men preparing for or
recently sealed in the temple when satanic disaster struck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One transgressed, drinking with the boys at
Fiesta, and his repentance and disciplinary process was not well handled and he
slipped away for 10 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ya, ten!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was behind on his tithing. He went in for
settlement, intending to clear it up, and his temple recommend was taken
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one has been able to resolve
his concerns for the last 5 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
was just about to preside over the open house of the chapel he had worked so
hard to oversee the procuring and building of, when he was accused of some kind
of financial impropriety. He too has been gone almost a decade. All the details didn't come out. No need for that. We just listened and loved, and helped them remember who the Savior is, and how to return to Him.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Need we say more</td></tr>
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Each man attended church for the first time within a couple
of Sundays of each other, and all three bore testimony on Fast Sunday in three
different branches in 2 different districts unbeknownst to each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span> </div>
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As an element of our visits with them, Elder Cropper would ask if they
wanted a blessing, and they each adamantly did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Elder Cropper asked the husband if he
would like to join him as he gave a blessing to the wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the first time in years, each man felt
the love of the Savior as a fellow priesthood holder placed his hands on his
head and called down the power of Heaven to comfort and strengthen him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then each man stood and for the first time in
years and exercised the long atrophied power of the priesthood which they still
held. The first time this happened, and I watched the man in tears of relief and joy, I expressed to him that I really knew now the reason we left our home and family. I know now the answer to our grand daughter's question, "Grammy why do those people in the Philippines need you more than we do?" God doesn't always let us know the reasons why, but he has been most bountiful in His allowing us to know.</div>
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Brother F described his experience thus: “your message has
awakened the yearnings in my long dormant heart”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that is a man who was prepared to
return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He began reading his scriptures
again, asked a few doctrinal and historical questions that had plagued him over the years and that his
buddies would torment him with, and he began to repent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We visited him one Sunday, grateful he had
attended in his branch as he had promised (we had asked the missionaries to
watch for him, welcome him and report back).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We asked him about his experience there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He told us that he had quit drinking a week before so he could be
prepared and feel ready when he got to church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because of his preparation, his experience was really powerful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently he had been drinking every night
for most of the last decade, but he gave it all up overnight in order to feel
the Spirit again. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of our favorite families. The father baptizing his daughter-in-law</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sis. B's daughter's baptism</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wife is still
hesitant, waiting for him, busy in the end of school whirlwind that teachers
all experience here, and plagued with a virus that has kept her feverish and
coughing. But she has wept for joy at the changes her husband is making, knowing
he so badly needed the gospel in his life. She has not yet had her own mighty
change of heart, nor invested the effort he has. They both acknowledge that she
waited for him to lead out when they were being taught the gospel, and now, she
is waiting for him to lead out on their return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We attended their branch last Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sister F was home sick, but there he was in white polo, with his little
girl happily sitting beside him. As we taught this man each week, we saw him
change physically and spiritually. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
questions were more thoughtful, his repentance more evident, his thirst for
scripture and doctrine more pronounced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a joy to help awaken his “dormant heart” and see him figuratively yawn and
stretch and then dig back in to his spiritual labors. </div>
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It’s a miracle.</div>
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Stay tuned for the next 2 episodes--if we don't run out of time :)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The senior couples of Cebu Mission with Our President and his wife front and center. Great people!!! Are YOU ready?</td></tr>
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Belated Happy Valentines day!!! And belated Gung Hai Phat Choi for that matter. Gotta love all the red splashing around our island of late.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaU7Ix8FwnI0QTclVilwkrCmqutskr63Jdbem-lJZnoSaehWziXASrZwuTtgZor3MtsjMjupJoHwVLE6eLs76uvz-_d8y9JvrQPlEQ14Ax5F9gCv345RPtju535JymUzU2WrvmgXv9ZYNP/s1600/P1090010.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaU7Ix8FwnI0QTclVilwkrCmqutskr63Jdbem-lJZnoSaehWziXASrZwuTtgZor3MtsjMjupJoHwVLE6eLs76uvz-_d8y9JvrQPlEQ14Ax5F9gCv345RPtju535JymUzU2WrvmgXv9ZYNP/s1600/P1090010.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From 9 yr old girl</td></tr>
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People in the Philippines love both holidays and there have
been signs and decorations in the stores for some time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We received a few Valentines of our own from
the Ablen kids—beautifully hand-made and written, and one from our little
friend Vincent in the branch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elder
Cropper took me out to celebrate the day, and the restaurant had a special
menu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They served nothing from their
regular menu—just 3 choices of “for two” meals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It arrived artfully plated on one platter from which we shared and it
was very yummy—pasta, salad, and batter-fried seafood. Strangely they even turned people away who were not in pairs!! Like they were not willing to make the platter for two into a plate for 1 or 3. Funny.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd26TRHKhnUHJik70Ciw5NQEz97Pxfo_mq-ukkvYIignoUTiyPeo3NRGEM5M8tAqkYivHIw6CU-bEZEz-XBYiiznw_2EWcV5oWDsnH9W3GeqEIT1II6dOYUSPpxoXNAnScsLo5duuF5-B_/s1600/P1090008.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd26TRHKhnUHJik70Ciw5NQEz97Pxfo_mq-ukkvYIignoUTiyPeo3NRGEM5M8tAqkYivHIw6CU-bEZEz-XBYiiznw_2EWcV5oWDsnH9W3GeqEIT1II6dOYUSPpxoXNAnScsLo5duuF5-B_/s1600/P1090008.JPG" height="320" width="243" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ya gotta love the art work</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFkgLmN8F-RCvEpc-GARRxXx11GRwMbj7Pxbrd26v4lothw7vL2sCDtoIeZCpY0EkBPYjKzf1l_xxED11n9pdbvaaio6vn3CNoyoDxTiaDEH97N6i1Cm6yUBYmTksWRXFUB89gHT9kZPO6/s1600/P1090009.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFkgLmN8F-RCvEpc-GARRxXx11GRwMbj7Pxbrd26v4lothw7vL2sCDtoIeZCpY0EkBPYjKzf1l_xxED11n9pdbvaaio6vn3CNoyoDxTiaDEH97N6i1Cm6yUBYmTksWRXFUB89gHT9kZPO6/s1600/P1090009.JPG" height="200" width="151" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Six yr old girl</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Csj0igyHY2jUo81iHy_xWhFyMZZJkH8-LmqgpeKQG-RiSxIp8lIT_ndpVMBh5pKSpfvHTC9J_Sehq1ha98pNpukxgND6bXa-GKUEoPTH-ZX9qWqGFEj4Wpu6M3uZioEvjQ9Z9NzS_sbM/s1600/P1090012.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Csj0igyHY2jUo81iHy_xWhFyMZZJkH8-LmqgpeKQG-RiSxIp8lIT_ndpVMBh5pKSpfvHTC9J_Sehq1ha98pNpukxgND6bXa-GKUEoPTH-ZX9qWqGFEj4Wpu6M3uZioEvjQ9Z9NzS_sbM/s1600/P1090012.JPG" height="206" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It is Vincent's 8th birthday next month. He asked me to baptize him</td></tr>
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Over our time here, a few family members have talked of visiting us during our
stay, but we have really discouraged them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Travel here is grueling—like way farther and way more flights than you
can even imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you travel that far,
you want to stay a while, but we can really only take off a couple days, and
the rest of the time would be missionary stuff and training that is not that
fun for any one else (though we love it like it’s our hobby, not our job). Then
there are the tropical diseases which are a very real and likely threat and
which can’t always be avoided even when careful—yet another missionary, this time
in our branch, just came down with Dengay fever last month and was oh so sick. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All that said, we were surprised last year
when Tanner and Taylor tacked a jaunt down here onto their business trip to
China, and we had a great few days with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then, last week Richard and Sharon came to see us in conjunction with a
trip they made to Thailand!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They too were only
here a few days, but it was so great to have them here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes us second guess ourselves about
being so adamant with others about not coming, but the reality didn’t change—it
is dangerous here and they were lucky to get home without fever, dysentery, or
amoebas—I don’t know about Thailand, but it’s a jungle over here.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over the river again on a new bridge. Teaching the gospel.</td></tr>
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They of course will come home with tales of how lovely our
home is, how nice the city near us, how lush and paradisiacal the surroundings
and vegetation, how exotic and idyllic our setting, how delightful the people,
how well run our branch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that is all
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our circumstances here are beyond
what we could have imagined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first
they were all so foreign and frightful we could hardly breathe, but now, we are
really at home here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know where
things are in our favorite grocery store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We know the short cuts through town when traffic is bad. We know the
names of every child in our Branch Primary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We know where to get a Magnum bar or the best mangoes (a stand on the way
to Valencia). We know what spray to use to eradicate the latest ant colony from
our truck engine (they usually end up carrying eggs into the glove box before
we notice they have returned). We have an emergency plan for black outs,
floods, and storms. Our armed security guard is mostly friendly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We get a text when someone is happy or ill or
gets good news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are included. We feel
at home.</div>
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Richard and Sharon saw and heard some bugs that most people
only see on discovery channel, and they were greeted by our resident gecko
dropping from the door frame as we walked in, but those things are old hat for
them having lived in Brazil for 3 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were not too fazed by the wildlife, but even their stomachs took a
lurch when we walked them into the fish market in Dumaguete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The smells in there are indescribable.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No fear Sister C. twenty foot long shark. </td></tr>
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We snorkeled one afternoon and discovered gads of beautiful fish—don’t
picture a reef off a resort on Palawan—this was a toothless lola collecting a
fee at a “nature reserve” that consisted of a few bamboo tables, some bouys to
keep us enclosed, and a shower after from a hand pump, bucket and dipper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We golfed one day (well the men did) on an
overnight <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trip with Pres. and Sister
Schmutz and his brother, Steve and his wife Becky. We shopped for baskets at a
little spot so remote we can’t believe Sister S. could find it and there we
discovered a mini-factory of hand weavers. We swam in the ocean with whale
sharks!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were close enough to
touch!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hiked into a tropical water
fall (the hike was a test of our pluck that is for sure) where we really felt
Tarzan-esque. We ate a few really great meals <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>(actually too many for our own health) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>including one lovely one at the Schmutzes’,
and one at an ultra-Filipino restaurant where we ate banana flower salad,
sinigang soup, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pork pata, pork kare kare,
chicken tidbits in banana leaves, and a sweet chili chicken dish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we ate on banana leaf plates. We saw aTaoist temple and Magellan's cross and a museum full of Cebu history, pre-colonial to post-independence.</div>
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The best part of having them here, as Sharon said in an
email yesterday, was so they could be witness to the work we do here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes our experience here more real, less surreal-like it's not just a dream, unconnected to our "real" life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They came with us to our
branch, and met the people here who we have loved and who have loved us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They met our mission pres. and his wife who
have become our family/life line/mentors/partners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They taught with us in members’ homes and shared
the light the gospel brings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They became
sentimental about their own missionary service, and were able to counsel us on
the reality of leaving this all behind and returning to the real world.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These big guys were so cool to swim with! As long as a bus.</td></tr>
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We really wish all our family could have come to visit. But the thought of your safety loomed much larger than our yearning for you. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of God's magnificent creation.</td></tr>
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On this Valentine Day, we are more conscious than ever of the
power and source of all good things— God’s love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s love for us, our love for Him, our love
for others, their love for us:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>those
forms of love that emanate from Him and that are our gift from Him empower,
animate, and enlighten everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
I write that it sounds so trite, so commonly stated, but I know it is true, and
I did not come here with as firm a conviction of it as I have now: God loves
His children, and his plan of happiness includes our being buoyed up by the
power of that love. While here, we have seen first hand more of what some might call
evidence of God’s neglect than we have ever before seen, but at the same time, we have
seen the awesome power of God's love that turns darkness into light EVERY time a
heart opens to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love (not in its
maligned, pip-squeaky and often twisted worldly version, but in its Godly
purity) really does conquer all.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister R. and her teen-aged boys find the gospel</td></tr>
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Our blog posts seems to just get farther apart, despite our
best intentions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think we have
less time really, I think it is a combination of things: our blog, at the
beginning seemed like our life line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
could our parents and kids know what we were doing? How could we stay connected
to those we were so yearning for?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
else could we supply the mandatory missionary weekly letter home that our kids
had been so diligent in writing from their missions, except by blogging, so
they could ALL get the details?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
But then things evolved: Heavenly Father blessed us early on to feel less
yearny, we found
ways to stay in touch by email, VOIP and Skype, we found that some didn’t read
the blog anyway, we have been taking fewer pictures, which are really what add
to a blog, and lastly, we often can’t seem to remember what we have and haven’t
written, so, it all adds up to fewer blog posts.<br />
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But, letters and blogs really do offer a different level of
communication—insights, reflection, observations and musings that don’t quite
get through on a magic jack phone call that is all crackly and in which I am
trying to do yoga with Rodney Yee on video (yes, I DO get the irony of that)
while the son or daughter I’m calling is nursing a baby, packing lunches for
tomorrow, biking home from work, surfing the net, or otherwise multitasking
like I am.<br />
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So, I continue on this attempt to share what we are about
here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hope you have time to read it.</div>
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<br />
Right now we are working with missionaries in three
different branches which each has a former branch president who has been gone
from the church for a number of years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is often 1 or more of these men in every branch!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me tell you of one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brother
T drove a truck all his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says
that his truck driver’s license was his ticket for traveling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would
go to a new place he wanted to see, then get a job driving, and explore and
learn about that place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has traveled
all over the Philippines in that way and has taught himself several languages
in the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His English is
astonishingly good for a man of little education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is one of those people who has a
particularly good ear for language, and who loves to learn, so he is
self-taught at a level that is really astonishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His collection of books, collected from who
knows where, is treasured, though tattered and moldy, but his
scriptures he has protected in a scripture case, inside another cloth bag.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ya, we are happy doing this work</td></tr>
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I should describe him physically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is slight, like many here, but
muscular—the kind of round and bulging (rather than long and lean) muscles that
speak of years of loading sugar cane trucks and that are incongruous on an old
man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is 73. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can only stand straight up if he is on tip-toe on one foot, because his right leg is several inches shorter than the
other. So, to stand on both feet, he has to bend at the waist, push out one hip
and twist over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His pronounced limp and
shriveled leg strangely do not diminish the dignified demeanor of this man, nor his overall
mobility.<br />
He incurred the injuries when the axle on the sugarcane truck he was
driving broke, and the truck pitched over the steep hill he was cresting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It rolled for a time with him in it; then he
was thrown. The ball of his hip joint was poking out his back, and though he
did eventually get medical care, the surgery was far from adequate. And yet he
still works—cleaning, cooking, gardening, and repairing shoes. He is a soft spoken, gentle, wise man and his unique accent
and his vocab when speaking English indicate he has learned both from books and
from listening to foreigners of various accents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Owner" datetime="2013-01-22T19:16"></del></span>His features are on the Chinese side of
Filipino, his eyes weak and weepy with age, but bright. He takes in body
language and nuances of tone, highly tuned in to details, spiritual, doctrinal
and temporal that others miss—a fact you can discern from his reflections and
observations. He is one of God’s more truly beautiful children, and his
crippled body, weathered skin, next to non-existent teeth only
highlight his beauty. Okay that sounds all poetic and lacking reality, but I
wish you could meet this man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he
glances up and smiles at you, making a comment that is astonishing in its
profundity, you are taken aback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who is
this guy?</div>
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Brother T joined the church late in life—back in 2003, after
his accident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First he, and then his
wife listened to the gospel message, and he knew he had found what had been
missing in his worship before. He said he had never been able to find answers
to the questions that plagued him, but now it all made sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He embraced it fully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All he had learned of languages and scripture
and people and religion was finally contained in the one truth of the restored
gospel of Jesus Christ.<br />
<br />
Then came the tragedy—far worse than a sugar cane truck
jerking your hip from its socket and crushing your leg. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It began when Brother T was called into the
Branch Presidency shortly after his baptism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then, the Branch President “resigned” and after only 3 months as a
member of the church, when he should probably not yet have even received the
Melchizedek priesthood, he was called to be Branch President over a remote
branch.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a lovely stretch of beach south of where we live </td></tr>
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At that time there had been a tradition in the branch that
the Branch President would give out rice to those who came to church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right after brother T became Branch Pres. the
district leaders told him that this practice could not continue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People should come o church to worship, not
to receive a hand out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brother T was the
unfortunate soul who had to inform the members of the policy and to enforce<br />
<ins cite="mailto:Owner" datetime="2013-01-22T19:17"></ins>it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took away their rice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they didn’t simply stop coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A very vocal member started a petition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In not too long he had collected signatures
from nearly every member of the branch to have President T. ousted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope as you read that sentence you felt the
sorrow and weight of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The members
ganged up on this newly converted man and crushed his soul in a crippling blow
much more consequential than his accident.<br />
<br />
He couldn’t face going back.<br />
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Many missionaries have visited and taught him over the
years—he loves their visits, saying they are the only friends he has in the
church—but for some reason, the missionaries who are there now bought just the right Spirit at just the right time and he decided to return. By the time we met him he had been back twice to church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
As he described the first time back he said that it felt
very good to be there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also said,
they still hate me, I can see it by how they move, but I don’t hate them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time weepy for another reason than age,
he apologized that his eyes “can’t help but rain the drops of tears”.<br />
<br />
We
asked if we could sing a hymn with him before we left, and with great
excitement he pulled out a notebook in which he had copied the lyrics to several
hymns. Above each there were several measures of notes copied out
also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked him about the notes and
verified that they were indeed the notes to the songs. He said that he was
trying to learn about the music and find out their language and if the black
notes were like do, so, la, and such. Ya, he was teaching himself musical
notation. He sang out with us and Elder D. added a bass line and I the alto and
we sounded like quite a little chorus in his cramped little cement block house, interrupted only by the delivery of a pair of shoes someone needed to have
stitched and the rooster in the kitchen who wanted to join in. </div>
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<br />
Brother T’s wife has long since returned to her former
church where she admittedly gets no doctrine, no direction for life, no real
relationship with God, but where no one argues about rice and hurts each other.
She could not reconcile the truth of the gospel with the way he had been
treated. Go figure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he never went
back to his old faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows where
the truth is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We only hope the members
there, a decade later, can rise up to his level and greet him in fellowship.</div>
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<br />
We have encountered so many iterations of this. They
all amount to members or leaders who are less than converted and less then well
trained making mistakes, being decidedly wrong or hard-<span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Owner" datetime="2013-01-22T19:18"></del></span>headed, or just
being human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have wondered why it is
so rampant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Owner" datetime="2013-01-22T19:18"></del></span>Elder Cropper thinks it is
like the early history of the church only without the weeding out
process of mobs and forced moves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
early church in America, the saints had to make choices to stay on, to learn and to measure up
or they stayed behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, many
responded to the message of the gospel, connecting with the
truth of it, but then they did not have the winnowing or the refining
necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, ALL the people who joined
stayed on the books, regardless of their level of conversion, and hence many of the members
and even leaders were not, 10 years ago, at the level of understanding and
devotion required for a lay church to function properly.<br />
<br />
But, God knows all the whys and <span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Owner" datetime="2013-01-22T19:18"></del></span>wherefores, and
gratefully the outcomes will be according to His will. Hopefully, brother T will continue
to have the humility, faith, patience and courage to venture back to the true,
though sometimes imperfect church and to us, its truly imperfect members.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">we never get used to this daily sight</td></tr>
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<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a small barangay pulls off an amazing parade for fiesta </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">to worship senor santo nino</td></tr>
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<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are elements from ancient pagan traditions </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mixed with Catholic saint worship</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">One of
the greatest and most memorable years we have ever spent just ended. Several
experiences stand out as defining for us. Here are a few.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">We have
learned and seen how living the gospel of Jesus Christ changes peoples hearts,
minds and even physical appearance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
of our focuses has been to rescue families and leaders who were not enjoying
the blessings of the gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of
these individuals we have worked with have been hardened by the world with some
bitterness toward someone in the church. They have let the spirit and power of
the atonement slip through their fingers and have held fast to what was left;
grudges and bitterness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In many cases
the softness the gospel brings into a person's life was replaced with worldly
vices and thinking. They could remember the gospel was still true, but they
found that God would not strike them dead if they stopped coming to church, so
they got comfortable and slipped into their old life style. You could see a
reluctant edge in their eyes and hear it in their voice. We could hear them
thinking, "if we invite these people back, they are just going to ask us to come
back to church and we am ok with how things are going in our life."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had forgotten. Brother and Sister
G.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> for example </span>They had been baptized as early
pioneers in the church and had become leaders early on. They worked hard as
their testimonies grew, sacrificing family time and recreation for service in
the Lord's kingdom. After years of service they were eventually released with
little thanks and with a few unresolved conflicts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first they just took a vacation from church activity, then soon, going back to their old life became very easy. After fifteen years there with old friends and vices it was a distant memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We learned the power of inspired
questions asked in love, consistency, offering apologies and persistence. They
both have callings now and are getting ready to return to the temple. They have remembered the strength,power and truth they had left behind.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I had the
blessing of working with two missionaries this year who wanted to return home
because they felt that a mission was not what they wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forty years ago I was experiencing the same
feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What am I doing here? I
remember a call home I made from the mission president's office to inform my parents I was coming home, and to arrange to
return to the States. But instead I had a spiritual experience while on the phone with my
mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was allowed to physically feel
the pain that I put into my mother's heart when I told her that I was coming
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was an immediate change in
my desire to serve and thanks to my mother and God I stayed on my mission. My
life changed for an eternity!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
experience is even more meaningful since my mom passed away this year. What a
gift she gave me that I was able to pass on to two struggling missionaries.
Using that experience and the power of having served a mission, I was able to
encourage both missionaries to stay and now one is a zone leader and the other
a district leader and both are loving their missions and their lives will be
changed forever because of my mother.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">This year
as we taught the gospel to less active members, we asked them to remember what
the gospel and church had meant to them in the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stone around their heart began to break
and a spirit of love began to replace the spirit of pride. Tears replaced the
glares. We knew that for those who had made covenants with God and were not
keeping them, the time had come for them to return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have learned how merciful and loving God
is even to those who have forgotten him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have seen members return after years of not tasting the fruits of the
spirit, and as they returned it was such a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>great joy to see other members put their arms around these brothers and
sisters and welcome them back. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">We are all God's children and all have the same
access at the table of the Lord and can feast with each other as we all feel
His love. Because the focus throughout the Philippines Area, and in our mission in particular, has changed from proselyting to rescuing, all the missionaries are working to find those who have left the fold. In Amlan Branch alone, the attendance has gone from an average of 60
when we first arrived to last week there were 120 in attendance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">What a difference a year can make. Sometimes we
sit in church before the meeting starts and watch the members arrive and
remember how we have listened to these wonderful saints talk of why they
stopped coming to church and stopped reading their scriptures. In their homes
we prayed with them and taught them the gospel of Jesus Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">We have been
there as the spirit has filled their hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We will miss these wonderful saints. We have been working in another
branch just north of us, it is Tanjay (tanhi). It is the hub of the district.
At the beginning of the year there were two missionaries and mid-year<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>two more were put there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the beginning of this year there were
about 80 in attendance. Now there are </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">about 140-160 attending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The record is 174.
Members are returning to church and to the temple. Many other branches are
similar. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">One of
the powerful changes we have seen in this mission this year is the higher level
of spirituality of the missionaries during.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we arrived there was a culture that had developed of disobedience. I believe we
have addressed that in a previous blog. The mission president has done such a
marvelous job in rooting out the old rebellious culture and replacing it with a
culture that makes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>missionaries want to
be obedient, be sanctified and work hard. We are witnesses to the fruit of
obedience to God's commands, faith and hard work. The Cebu mission is
consistently ranked 1st in many categories of all the missions in the
Philippines particularly in returning less active members.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A sleeping baby on the shoulder is pretty heavenly. Cassandra T.</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Last
item, one of the greatest things that we love so much about being here is the
happy nature of the people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you smile
at any Filipino they will smile back at you with the most beautiful smile you
can imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if their house is full
of mud and there is no food for them to eat they will smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The large city just to the south of us,
Dumaguete, has a large number of foreigners living there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In almost all cases, when we pass a foreigner
on the street and look and smile at him, there is no response at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is like we just we passed a mannequin. We
are in love the the Filipino people who are
warm, loving, resilient, happy in the face of trials, family oriented, with fathers
and grandfathers taking care of little ones, and the list goes on. There is a
part of heaven we feel in the hearts of these people that is easily manifest by
their happy countenance.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">One of
the most powerful lessons we have learned is that we worship a God of miracles
and we are in constant awe of how we works in the lives of so many people
including our own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have seen that
nothing is too great for the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
in control and this life on earth is a perfect place for us to come and
experience exactly what we need to progress and return to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have come to love our Savior Jesus Christ
in ways we thought not possible. Our lives will never be the same.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family transportation- Can you find all 7? two brothers, one with two kids in front of him, the other with one in his far arm and his wife and daughter behind him. Who needs a suburban? Who needs hands on the handle bars?</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">We have
loved the year 2012. We have experienced heartache and joy. We have missed our family greatly, but technology is amazing, and they have been great at staying connected and supporting us. And they have thrived with out us. We are changed--a miracle in itself for a couple of old people who were pretty much fully cooked--or so we thought. A year that we will always remember as one of our very
best!</span></div>
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Elder Cropper chose and uploaded our pictures for the blog
at 1 am Christmas morning because we had spent all day shopping for, preparing,
and delivering baskets, then we went to the C family Christmas Eve Family Home
Evening and stayed later than we should have, and the uploading takes
hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was finishing the captions at 2
am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yikes!! It was like we were up late
wrapping presents for little ones with our Santa hats on.</div>
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BUT I woke this morning at 6 and realized I hadn’t really
said what we had wanted to say about Christmas, so . . .</div>
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The pictures of all the lights, nativities, snowmen and
trees in the different towns are a small representation of what we see for
months here in the Philippines as we drive all up and down the province of
Negros Oriental. People love to celebrate this holiday!! People start saying “advance
Maayong Pasko” in September and then by December they are leaving off the “advance”
And yes, they say “advance” in English, and Merry Christmas in Visaya or
English, depending on . . . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure
what.</div>
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The others pictures are of some of the many families we took
baskets to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Elders helped sort and
make the baskets and then off we trekked, down a river bank and out to the
beach and into the crab fields and today we will do some more in jungle and
mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a joy it is to see the
faces of especially mothers and fathers when they see that their children will
have something they never in a lifetime expected. It could get addicting.</div>
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We didn’t add pictures of the two events that really felt
like Christmas to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first was the Christmas
devotional for the missionaries on our island brought to us by the Schmutzes
and the APs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was so great!! They
showed the gorgeous Immanuel video from the church website, then President gave
a beautiful Christmas message—he is an artful story teller, and can really
bring even long-loved stories to another level of animation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He weaves different passages of scripture
together until you are able to discern patterns you had never seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christmas celebrations could have stopped
there and we would have been so happy. But of course we ate--a catered meal of
Italian pastas and chicken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of
course there was a talent show by the missionaries in which of course Elder
Cropper and I had to do something goofy—chinikins—with the Zone leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was so fun to see all these missionaries
come up with things that you would never have imagined.</div>
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Then at the C. family’s FHE, we felt again what they have
been so great at extending to us—the love of family—that unconditional
acceptance when you know that the differences don’t count and the language is
not a barrier (‘cause of course their English is good, but it’s more than that)
and you are truly loved. </div>
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We have also been to several church Christmas parties in
different branches and one district, and there are more of those to come during
this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have been fun and certainly
lively, and I had to shed a tear about this being our last Christmas here with
these people we have come to feel so close to, while at the same time I was
mourning not being with our own family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Strange.</div>
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And the conclusion of all this:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it really is about Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the preparations, all the giving, all the
receiving originates in our love of the Savior and our gratitude for his birth
and life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if, when the Bais town
council, puts up a 40 foot Christmas tree, they have no real thoughts of the
Christ child, still for those of us who worship him, the tree and all the rest
remind us of that sacred, holy, eternal gift from our Eternal Father and his
blessed, obedient, unspotted, majestic Son.</div>
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The message we have been sharing as we find ourselves called
on to give a Christmas thought everywhere we go is twofold: First, the humble
circumstances in which this King was born, speak to us of our Father’s lesson that
our circumstances do not define us and that we too have divine natures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are children of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The miracle, majesty, and mystery of His
birth all become a glorious portrayal of the divine heritage we too can
claim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when we hear the song, “Away
in a Manger” we can think of the song, “I am a Child of God”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though Christ was the Only Begotten, a God
himself, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and we are not, we are His
spiritual children, and we are sons and daughters of His Father. </div>
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The second message we have been sharing is that of the light
that emanates from the Savior and how that light is represented in the new star;
the star was foretold in both hemispheres appeared at His birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That light animates each soul. It is what
allows the sun to shine and our hearts to beat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is the source of the love we feel for each other and the love we feel
from God. Wise men knew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Samuel
knew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we now know. </div>
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May we recognize the source of the light in our lives--the babe,
the King, the Son, our brother, Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Merry Christmas to all.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the District Christmas party--two little Christmas elves--J and C</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder M Elder C, 2 more Christmas elves, and Elder C found a 3<br />
headed pina to go in a gift basket</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...if Sister M can get into this place, so can I--see the elders in the<br />
background waiting for me to take a nose dive.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first caroling visit--to Sister M's ever expanding family. The<br />
8 grandkids in the front have all been with her at church single-y<br />
or in small groups--the grown ups never come</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister M with her newest grandson--the abandoned one</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our dear Sister C and her lovely daughter Sister K. It feels like home at their house,<br />
and has since we first arrived here--their big hearts loved us before they even<br />
knew us. They took us in the first week we arrived, and have included us ever<br />
since. Tonight we spent Christmas Eve with them enjoying great food, FHE,<br />
talents, games, singing and love. Brother and Sister C have 4 boys<br />
and 2 girls, all grown, all about the same ages as our kids, all musical and athletic<br />
and brilliant. No wonder we feel at home with them. Thank you C family<br />
for making room for us in your hearts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pigs and produce being delivered by barge to Christmas feasts. <br />
Yes they are hanging up side down. And yes they are alive, but they are<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our contribution to the branch party--the pig, not the boys. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">underwater theme for this year in Bindoy</td></tr>
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us to all, or to all of you. Ya, we still don't know much of this language</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">entrance to Bais City</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The award winning tree in Bais They even have a train that runs<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder M., me, and Elder C. doing a chipmunk chinikins with Elder C. directing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister M, brother J and their son A. with their own festive light display. So this is what Christmas<br />
looks like here--lots of festivities--lots of caroling and partying--lots of love shared--lots<br />
of decorations and imaginative displays in all the towns--lots of warm, delightful feelings of<br />
brotherhood. The only thing missing is you. We love you all so much, <br />
Merry Christmas </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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In light of the news I just saw about the tragedy in Connecticut,
our trials here on Negros seem hardly serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are so grateful that the people here on this island are all safe, the
families we know lost no one to the typhoon, and the damage is all repairable.
Although, those on the southeastern island of Mindanao , the large island just
south of us did not fare so well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many hundreds
lost their lives, and there was terrible destruction to property as well. In the face of such devastation, we wish we could hold each of our children and
grandchildren tight tonight, like Pres. Obama envisioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We count on you to do that for us and for
each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We pray mightily for the
families in those communities who have lost so much. May God fill their hearts
with love and peace and the strength to reach out for help and support rather
than allowing hatred or malice or despair to do further damage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope they can picture a whole world of
people helping them to hold and carry their grief, not just as a media event,
but as mothers and fathers all over the world, who are stopping to mourn with
them. Because that's what we are doing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two mango trees topple on the M's house</td></tr>
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And still we will report on our island in the typhoon last week, though with
renewed perspective. You might think that typhoons are normal here, and they
are, but the big one last year with its crushing landslides and heavy rains and
flooding and then this “super typhoon” last week, with its quick destruction
and furious winds, are both way beyond normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The old folks in this area say there have never been winds this strong
in their life time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The high winds
caused much death and destruction on the windward Island of Mindinao, and
usually it stops there, but this one gathered its strength back up over the
short ocean distance between, and did a lot of damage on our side of Negros as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Huge, ancient trees were torn out
by the roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We drove past one behemoth
spread prostrate across the road, and a woman in our car said, “I remember
playing in that tree on my way to school.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The next day we drove past again with her father, and the man said the
same thing his daughter had said about this old friend that was now crushing a
small store across the street.</div>
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The good news is that this storm was predicted better and
the warning was communicated better, and the timing was not as difficult as
last year— when the flooding hit violently and unannounced in the middle of the
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time, church leaders had
time to get permission to open the buildings for people to evacuate to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so people came in the afternoon and spent
the night-- members of the church and neighbors--all sheltering and being fed
while the worst of it blew over that evening. Some went home the next day to no
damage, some went home to roofs blown off or trees uprooted and crushing their
homes, but no one was hurt.</div>
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Actual loss seems less than from the flooding last
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last time everything just
literally washed away or covered in mud. This time it was mostly structural
damage to buildings from wind or trees as well as some major crop damage to
rice and bananas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A banana farmer in
Mindanao lost 90% of his crop. In our area it was more like 50%--still a big
blow.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The road is now passable</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old trees just couldn't withstand the wind</td></tr>
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Of course there were those who did not evacuate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The missionaries were all told to get home and
stay put. And they were all safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
members, in hind sight, should have gone but didn’t, thinking it would be okay
to stay home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turned out not to be our
dear Branch Pres., who lives right across the highway from the open sea, texted
us at about 6 pm to please come help, his roof was giving way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was there with his wife, mother-in-law,
little nephew and new baby huddled in the house with the winds raging and the
rain pelting face on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got in the
truck and headed their way, but within a hundred yards for our gate, on the
highway was a massive tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We drove
round the top end of it and came across another within maybe 50 more
yards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one had a power line tangled
in its branches, but it looked like we might be able to get under the line and
around the tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we tried to assess
it, people came out yelling to us to move, pointing to another tree that was
very precariously creaking and swaying, right over the truck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We high tailed it back and hunkered down in
our house, but I had to cry as I texted President that we couldn’t get to
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pictured how they might be faring
in the fierce wind and rain that was now beating horizontally on our window and
forcing rainwater into the unsealed windows and doors of our comparatively
tight house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They eventually got an
emergency vehicle to come get them to a shelter in the next town. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw the next day that limb that was over
the truck did indeed come down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It is safe as long as the car in front of you doesn't spark.</td></tr>
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Then at 9 pm, when I guess the eye was going quickly past,
and things had eased a bit, we got another emergency text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please come help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brother A and his wife and 4 kids had lost
much of their roof, were being battered by rain and wind, and were expecting
the worst still to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They live way
up hill from the sea, so they had not thought to evacuate. Since they lived in
the opposite direction from our earlier failed attempt, Elder Cropper thought
he might be able to get to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He went
to the church and picked up brother E and brother J who he knew were there with
their families and who he knew would help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They couldn’t make it up the main road, so turned onto a side street and
found that road with a tree blocking it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With his trusty saw, they cut that tree apart and moved it off the road
to find another bigger tree blocking the road. They back tracked and found a
way back to the main road and a second detour to Bro. A’s turn off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trees and power lines were blocking that road
but with a little muscle they progressed only to find banana trees across the
road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a few hacks of the bolo knife
(machete) and a bit more muscle they were moved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a good thing Elder Cropper has a lot of
muscle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming to a place in the road
that was flooded, they waded through knee deep water in the darkness with the
wind blowing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The A family had made it
down quite a ways off their though their own detours-- mud, downed trees and
swollen creek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The men got them back to
the church safely and Elder Cropper got home soaked and tired but safe and
sound.</div>
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In the middle of the night we both woke with a start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is NEVER silent here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trucks rumble all night down the highway near
our house, roosters crow, lizards “tika” pigs squeal, and often the rain falls
on our metal roof and can get really deafening, and the wind often howls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at about 3 am on the morning after the
fiercest typhoon in memory, everything stopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trucks could not pass, animals were silent, no wind, no rain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was eery, but we felt so grateful to be
together safe and soundless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It meant
the worst was over.</div>
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Everyone lost electricity for a time, many lost water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all came back slowly, small area by area,
until about 10 days later we could see that all the communities had lights back
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clean-up was immediate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trucks came from other towns (Bais, Manjuyod)
that were not as badly hit with chain saws to help the towns with the most
damage (Dumuguete, San Jose, Amlan, Tanjay), and by the early morning hours—still
dark— the main roads were passable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
people are still repairing, shoring up toppled bamboo walls, replacing neepa
roofing, applying tarps for temporarily keeping dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some it will take months to come up with
the funds and the man power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Filipinos
can do more with a broom and a bolo (machete) than you can believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we would drive up and down the highway in
the next few days, hundred foot tall trees, which had crashed and spread over
several yards and buildings would disappear into tidy stacks of firewood in a
few hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We hardly got any pictures of the destruction cause it got cleaned up so fast to let ambulances and buses through. </span>People are still sweeping,
and back to daily routines.</div>
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Missionaries pitched in to help folks, the local leaders sent in reports for assistance from the area authorities, relief goods got distributed, but all this sets people back, yet again, in a place where there is little slack to take up. But no one complains, the sisters resume practices for the dance they will perform at the Christmas party, the 40 foot Christmas tree in the Plaza at Bais was put back to rights, the shops in Dumuguete were packed today, 2 Saturdays before Christmas. As always, life goes on.</div>
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Sister Schmutz, our mission president's wife, made the observation that our lives here feel
like the movie, Groundhog Day. It’s true!</div>
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There is no pattern to the days of our weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we are not held to the strict schedule
of the young missionaries, we do P-day stuff (P stands for preparation—it’s the
day missionaries get “off” to do all their household and personal stuff, and to
play, sight see or explore if they can fit it in) on days other than P-day if
we are in town (change the oil, buy groceries, buy a printer cartridge). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then on P-day we usually fill at least some of
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it with our regular work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus our Sundays are workdays, our p-days are
mid-week, and we are likely to be in long, gospel-related meetings on any given
day, not just Sunday, so normal weekly patterns, even those that young
missionaries come to cycle into are not dependable to us for telling time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “rest” has a different meaning in scripture
than in common usage, and has nothing to do with sitting around, so we “rest”
all the time, and we throw in a tiny bit of sitting around on occasion too
(reading a few pages of a novel, watching the news, watching a movie, emailing, writing a blog)
but not on any particular day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mmmmmm, tuod mangos</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ten Tons of sugar cane all hand cut and hand loaded</td></tr>
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Second factor in our time warp: there are no seasons that we
can recognize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The slight differences in
temperature and rainfall are unpredictable and indiscernible to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure if you are a sugar cane farmer you
can tell variations in rainfall and temperature, but to us it’s all just hot
and wet. We have clued in to some of the harvest patterns, but they are so
different from home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mangos can be
forced (by spraying a hormone on the tree we are told) to produce two or even
three times a year, but if left untreated, they produce in a yearly pattern,
but with a long season, since different varieties come on at different
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically there has never been a
time of year when we could not get a lovely mango, but March through June they
are truly astonishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for sugar cane;
it is yearly, but the harvest takes months—November till April. SO cane trucks,
loaded with their minimum of 10 ton of cane, are rumbling by and holding us up
on the road all day and all night for fully half the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rice paddies with coconut and mango trees</td></tr>
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And rice; I think they get 3 harvests a year,
but that’s hard to tell because they rotate the paddies and they are always in
a state of harvest, fallow, planting or growing, all in fields next to each other.
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Bananas have no season that we can
detect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are always growing, always getting
harvested, each variety is always available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It just seems to have to do with when you plant the tree—you plant it
and in 11 months you harvest. Then of course coconut—also no season we have
seen, though they tend to harvest 3or 4 times a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So,
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Endless supply of coconuts and coconut water</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bananas grow to maturity in 11 months!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rambutans...very sweet once you are inside</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">West side of the island: sunset over the ocean</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">East side: incredible sunset over the mountains</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wow! what a sunset</td></tr>
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Then there is the equator effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We live only 8 degrees north of it, so every
day is virtually the same length. If you wake at 4:15 am it is pitch dark; by
4:45, there is light appearing over Cebu Island across the strait; and the sun
is up and hot by 6:00 am. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the evening,
sun set is about 5:30, and it’s fully dark by 6:30. The total change in length
of days for the year is only 1 hour and 45 minutes— that’s on average about 20
seconds difference in a day—not a perceivable change on a daily basis. No cues
there as to what month it might be. And if we are on the other side of the island, the sun comes up and goes down opposite from what we normally see!</div>
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Plus the school year here is different from ours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>School kids, including colleges get out in
March and start in June.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So there are tons
of kids and young adults in uniforms at certain parts of the day during certain
parts of the year, but if you are unconsciously linking the back-to-school sign
you saw in the store to Aug, then you are a whole quarter off.</div>
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Musn’t forget the six-week pattern of mission life that
keeps us unaware of months and locked into the six-week <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“transfer.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The missionary planners and most (but not all) the missionary-related
meetings are on this transfer schedule—zone conferences, zone interviews,
transfer days, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result is that a
transfer, a month and a half, seems mentally comparable to a month, so months
are gobbled up half again as fast as normal </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lecheon Baboy--the skin is the delicacy</td></tr>
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And of course holidays and fiestas—so key to keeping track
of time—are all different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christmas décor
goes up in September, Thanksgiving and Halloween are non-existant, and there is
always a fiesta going on somewhere—full on celebrations on the magnitude of
Christmas— that are different days in every barangay and every municipal and
every city. Amlan fiesta is on November 29 and 30, so today pigs by the
hundreds are getting slaughtered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think
of turkeys at Thanksgiving, only these are killed in the back yard where they were
raised in prep for today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
household serves a spit-roasted pig or sometimes many.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the killing begins days ahead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The music throbs all night for days from
houses and venues all around us, and the pigs squeal high and loud also all day
and night. Last year this was disturbing, but this year we know it is only for
a few days and all will be peaceful again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are invited to several homes to celebrate Amlan fiesta, so it must be
the end of November of course. </div>
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Anyway, on any given day, I can tell you exactly what time
it is based on the sun, but I have no idea what day of the week, what week of
the month, or what month of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
days seem long, others hardly happen, weeks don’t really exist, months are
careening by without our really knowing they came and went, and the 6-week
transfers are obscenely short. Whether you reckon time by Chronos—chronologically—or
by Kyros—through patterns, cycles and seasons—we are ALL messed up.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> A great ZL. We miss them all when they leave, but time is up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tell us when your birthday balloons arrive </td></tr>
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Dear Marcus, Happy Birthday!! We miss you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We miss singing with you—especially
caroling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We miss seeing you with your
kids—man they love you in a beautiful way; enjoying your many projects—uh, who
has a self-made zip line in their back yard?; watching your goofy antics at
celebratory events—bottle whistling, role playing and such.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We miss challenging conversations that
stretch us. We miss laughing with you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay,
that’s enough of that before we all get maudlin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main thing is that while we are billions
of meters away from you, we think about you and pray for you every day—and just
plain miss you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Here in our current neck of the woods people are very
accustomed to being far from home, <b>as we are now</b>. There are so few jobs here,
and so little hope of advancement or education for your children, that people
leave home by the droves to work overseas and send money home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is even an acronym OFW (overseas
Filipino worker), and a department in the national government to oversee all
the oversea-going! In2010 it was estimated that 11% of all Filipinos are not
living in the Philippines!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crazy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are often skilled workers—nurses, PTs—
but are working as house help or in nanny positions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they leave home for years at a time,
leaving kids behind with others. They are all over the world, in Japan,
Lebanon, Switzerland, but most are in the US and the numbers are almost as high in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, UAE, and Canada. Foreign countries love Filipino
house helpers because their English is far better and their accents more
understandable than those who learn English in other countries; this is due to
the long connection with the US that the Philippines has—generations of English
speakers and English as a second official language.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marcus, Rebecca, Jack and Eliza</td></tr>
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Elder Ardern of the 70, and in the area presidency over
Philippines, counts this overseas drain as the most serious cultural problem
facing the family in this country. And
we see its effects on so many families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One effect of course is the lack of parental love and supervision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By far most of these overseas workers are
female, their kids are being raised by aunties or grandmas who may or may not
be really engaged, and their father is often not involved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second effect is almost as
problematic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is an oversea
worker in the family, then that person sends home support for their kids and
those raising them, which gets stretched to extended family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And hence comes this dependent culture between
workers and non-workers where so many people here literally forget how or why
one would work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A third effect is on the
worker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometime their working
conditions are horrible, their wages still low, they are practically enslaved
since they don’t earn enough for plane fare home, their employers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>often confiscate their passports, and they
only come home every second or even up to fifth year. They might live in a
closet under a stair way their lips and skin cracking from the desert dryness
they are unaccustomed to, with no chance for improvement, no chance of going
home, and little ability to communicate with family other than sending money by
wire. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If that worker is married, you can
imagine how many of those marriages survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is very common for people to have families in both countries—the family
they left behind, and the family they have now in Singapore or wherever—another
tragic effect of OFW.</div>
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But all is not tragic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A few make it work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Children are resilient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Church and community step in.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy Birthday from our front yard.</td></tr>
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Here is our most recent encounter with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We met a family where the mom, has been gone
in Dubai for 8 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her daughters are
16 and 17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She comes home every 2 years
for a month or so. The dad is at home with the girls and has a small business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though their dad has moved away from the
church and acquired a few vices, these girls have actually fared amazingly well
without their mom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were both
baptized just before she left, and the branch has held them close since. They
are always at the church, engaged in whatever is going on—seminary, YW activities,
service projects, firesides, b-ball games, choir practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are now both in first year college
(remember high school only goes to grade 10 here, though that is soon changing).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are not pregnant (soooo common here)
they are not doing drugs, alcohol or tobacco, they are doing well in school,
they are out- going and love to practice their English, giggling and egging
each other on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just in case the first batch doesn't make it we sent more</td></tr>
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We met their mom, Sister
G., last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was home on
leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was supposed to be 2 months,
but her employer has called her every day demanding that she come back early
because the 4 children miss her so much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sister
G. reminds the woman that her daughters have been missing her too, but the
woman says, yes, but they are grown and so they are fine without you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She says her 2 year old won’t stop saying “Nita”,
“Nita” and crying. So Sister G. is giving in and cutting her leave short. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is hoping her boss can get her husband a
job too, so she doesn’t want to rock that boat. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just wonder how often her girls cried for
her while she was tending those other babies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now Sister G. goes back so that (according
to her) the mother can ignore them and sleep till 11 am. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn’t dare refuse or she will lose her
job, her husband might not get the job the employer is holding out as a carrot,
and her daughters won’t finish their education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When they graduate, she will come home for good. In the mean time she
cannot take with her any scripture—not allowed in the house--she must cover her
head always, she cannot attend church, nor leave the house on Sunday. But her daughters will have and education, and they are strong, so the investment paid off.</div>
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Marcus we are so grateful our family members don’t have to
make such difficult choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We are now far away, but not till after our kids were grown and self-reliant. </span>You have
had to be away from your family for relatively short periods here and there for
training and such, but you have always made time for your family, the time away
has been relatively short, and your relationship and influence has never
diminished. You give them what they need in all aspects of their life, and you
put them first in your decisions and priority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Your relationship with them is so sweet and so powerful. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We think you are a great Dad and husband and
we are grateful for how you serve them and your country, and teach them by example of love and compassion and service. We love you Marcus,
and on your birthday we pay tribute to you, to your service in the army, and to
your continued love and influence on your family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, we miss you.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At a special Sacrament meeting held on a pier near a member's home</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">view from our main room window</td></tr>
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We live in the most incredible missionary set up, with ocean
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Cropper baptized sister B whom we and the Elders taught</td></tr>
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We serve in a zone of missionaries with whom we work and teach, and they
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the house needed moving, so . . . </td></tr>
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aide through community service, teaching returning members in their homes, and
most of our time is spent training leaders and supporting members and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">we are learning the skill of roofing, Filipino style</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">doesn't get more powerful than these mini-mighty Filipinas and one Polynesian </td></tr>
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So here is the thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We know God is in control and will orchestrate what He will, but we also
know he uses His children to make his purposes come about, so we have decided
to ask you to help us to replace ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here is what we would like you to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pray about who you might invite to consider if they would like to serve
a mission in 6 months or less in Cebu Mission Philippines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pass this on to anyone you can think of as a
result of that prayer, and ask them to pass it on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We really hope that whoever replaces us can
live in this home which is seriously enviable and which we would be sad to have
to give up with all the extras we have supplied it with.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the local beauties</td></tr>
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Remember our process when we were considering a mission,
before we turned in our papers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dean
wanted to request a Philippines mission and I felt that was presumptuous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shouldn’t we have faith to go wherever God sent
us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did we really want to direct the
Lord in this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did I really want to
receive a call, and then, when facing hardships in the mission look at my
husband and shoot poison darts out my eyes at him for getting me into this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was convinced I wanted this to come from the Lord and not some intervention of
my dearly beloved hubby.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a miracle companionship --one Pakistani, one Indian</td></tr>
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But then one day during a prayer, he felt prompted to look
up who the mission president was in the Cebu mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He got on the church website and found that
Evan Schmutz had been newly called and would leave for Cebu in a few
months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dean told me he wanted to call
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wavered from my resolve to leave
this in God’s hands, admitted this might actually BE direction from him, and I
shrugged, meaning, “go ahead oh ye of little faith, but I’m not going to be
implicated in your scheming.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before you
could say “humana” (Cebuano for ‘done’) he had tracked down President Schmutz’s
law firm, called him up out of the blue (random call from unknown, un-referred,
overzealous potential missionary) and set up an appointment for us to meet the
Schmutzes (yes, that is far too many consonants, and does it rhyme with pooch
or ruts or what? but I was willing to put that aside—they still might be nice
people) when we were out in Utah, just before they headed off for the isles of
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And then came the confirmation of God’s hand in this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We met them at Mimi’s in Orem and they were
perfect—it was love at first sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
fell into easy conversation, we had kids who knew their kids, they were the
perfect combination of spiritual giant and down to earth homey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew these were the people we wanted to
serve with, and we knew God approved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>President had already looked into the process of how we could serve together,
and he <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5il8UvKRNztRllH47LxTQ95ooJ8_Ek4wyzpcekXBbziN9ox0VALSNKpNuzz2QbmG_-nspz4voG4-EPunV91Dh4cECp5WppvAdjYQLQmZ_4_j9tm4SiGiZ2dk7lDOCr8g5WW4_9tCDEoE1/s1600/P1070247.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5il8UvKRNztRllH47LxTQ95ooJ8_Ek4wyzpcekXBbziN9ox0VALSNKpNuzz2QbmG_-nspz4voG4-EPunV91Dh4cECp5WppvAdjYQLQmZ_4_j9tm4SiGiZ2dk7lDOCr8g5WW4_9tCDEoE1/s1600/P1070247.JPG" width="400" /></a>assured us that, though he would request us, and we would request his
mission, the general authorities and missionary committee would still pray
about and receive inspiration on the assignment, and we could rest assured this
was part of a faithful process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
assurances were all I needed, in addition to the initial feeling of belonging
with them, to proceed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We submitted the
papers and when we opened the call, trying to steel ourselves against the possibility
we still might go to (fill in the blank of wherever seems your least favorite
place), we both cried, grateful for God’s mercy in not just allowing this, but
in orchestrating it for us in such a way that I knew it was His will.</div>
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Our mission has been one miracle after another—week after
week of being led and allowed to minister or even just be the catalyst for someone else
to minister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have been stretched, we are
being refined, we are better for being here. We have touched a lot of souls. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, God willing, someone you know might too.<br />
Of course we can not say, even if one were to request this mission, that this is where one would be sent, or even that, once here, President would be inspired to assign you to this area, but if you feel impressed to act on this, or to share it, please take that opportunity. </div>
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You must know someone who is considering, or already in process of applying. Have them contact us by email-- decropper@gmail.com. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">--and we will give them details.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Dear Rebecca,</div>
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As we think about your birthday and reflect on your life and
your influence in our lives, we feel the very gratitude that is your hallmark characteristic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have voiced many times, and you live it to
the full, the notion that gratitude shapes our lives and allows us
to navigate the rough waters. And we agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And we are so grateful to our Maker for you. For so many reasons and in
so many ways, we are grateful for you.</div>
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We have been talking and thinking about what to link your
birthday blog to—what would you enjoy or relate to—and we have been led, both
through experiences placed in our way and through thoughts that have presented themselves
to us, to share with you the following (and yes, we are aware of the irony and also
the timeliness of this topic for you):</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brother M last June with his immediate family</td></tr>
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This week we found out that Brother M was struggling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His brother, told
us of some of the circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both the
brothers and their sister had been sealed to their mother and her deceased
husband in June in the Cebu temple and we were privileged to be there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each brother was then sealed to his wife and
their children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a
three-generation eternal fiesta.</div>
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But, as is always the case, trials come along with the
blessings, and Brother M has been afflicted with some kind of disease that is
turning his lower leg black, then he developed an ulcer on top of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty ugly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But then he lost his job of 15 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is a security guard at a bank, another guard got mad about something
and punched him a couple of times in the face so he hit the guy back and they
were both suspended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, needless to say
he was feeling rather dejected. When we visited him he kept shaking his head
vigorously, like a big bull, so mad at himself, so mad at the other guy, so
sure there was no way out of the hole he’d put them in, trying to shake off the
pain and memory of it, trying not to cry.</div>
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Elder Cropper felt strongly that a return trip to the temple
would give this couple the perspective they needed to help them face their
battles, but their next goal for returning wasn't until in 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were heading to Cebu to stay with the
Schmutzes and attend the temple for our monthly visit, so I suggested they come
with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a stretch for them—conceptually
to do something that spontaneously, and financially even though the expenses
would be from our perspective, minimal— but they agreed and we got him in to a doctor the next day
(they put him on antibiotic and took a culture—results pending) and picked them
up for the trip the day after that.</div>
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Small talk was minimal, and any other talk was virtually
non-existent on the 4 and a half hour trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we had to communicate
something vital, like scheduling for them at the patron house, or sessions, we
just hoped we were being understood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sister M’s English is a little more fluid than his, and we are SOOOO
grateful she and others we speak to have developed the skill to the extent they
have, but still there is always a language barrier that adds an element of risk to every conversation.</div>
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At the temple we did some initiatory work with them, then
basically left them on their own while we went off to accomplish other
necessary tasks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t even see them
again at the temple when we went the next day, though they were there.</div>
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As we travelled home that evening, there was still plenty of
silence. It wasn’t until we boarded the barge, got out of the truck, and Elder
Cropper and Brother M were standing on the boat under the stars that he
expressed how peaceful he felt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said
all his feelings of fear and anger were gone, and that in the temple he felt
peace and he knew that everything would be ok—he knew none of his problems were
even important, like they weren’t real anymore, though he still knew they were
ahead of him.</div>
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His wife, always faithful, even back during his less active,
gambling addiction days, had never lost sight of that certainty, but to have
her husband feel it was a miracle, and she couldn’t express enough how grateful
she was for that experience. They had done initiatories, attended two endowment
sessions, and participated in sealings, all in the less than 24 hours we were in Cebu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In telling Pres Schmutz of it, Brother
M said, “It was good to remember our covenants.” Isn’t that the truth.</div>
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Becca, since we can’t mention the most salient detail of
your life right now, but since it looms so large over every aspect of your
life, let us just say that we are so very grateful that you and Marcus have made
those same covenants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a comfort it
is to picture you two together for eternity, come what may.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How grateful we are that the two of you honor
and cherish your temple covenants, and are raising your children to do the
same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A multi-generation eternal fiesta. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See the dome of light over the temple. </td></tr>
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While they were in the temple, we were getting our other Cebu
stuff done, including getting our dose of Schmutz lovin’ that is mandatory to
our enduring to the end with a glad heart. President Schmutz told us the most
amazing story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A woman who was visiting
in Cebu, stood in her high rise hotel window shooting pictures of the city view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She saw the temple not far off and took
several photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After looking at the pictures
in the camera it puzzled her greatly. The camera was seeing something that she
couldn’t see. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She went back to the
balcony that evening and took some more, and they reflected the same phenomenon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> She thought she saw angels over the temple</td></tr>
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She was so intrigued she set out to find the
building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She showed up at the mission
office on the temple grounds and asked about what the building is and what it is used for. She then produced her camera and
showed Sister E, the office manager, the photos she had taken.</div>
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There were a couple dozen photos of the
temple, some close ups, some at night, some day, and in every photo there was a
visible bubble over the temple, like a rainbow without the colors. In some, the
bubble was large, others just barely covering Moroni.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a few there was a double layer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was certainly astonishing, and though it
may be explicable through some sort of law of physics or light refraction
process, it was nonetheless provocative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sister E copied the pictures onto her computer and Elder Cropper of
course got a copy of the pictures. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even during the day time it is visible.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmyzUpiOnKehlAyE36wHFKwBxhK1cL9lkdsCxCmkJtp8fy_UnCuoWn-EH5V7aqhaskuSvWWwNMCPa8KDd1WbSKmRsqcCL5bDeiNuRqDkhXOOLDRaz0yFnj0IYSf6SV8IL87PDO7puws-5Y/s1600/291450_3517448145997_1632102170_o.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What looks like a double dome</td></tr>
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When one considers that every prophet in the history of the
world has prophesied of the restoration, and looked forward to the time when
Elijah would restore the sealing powers;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when you think that the lives of those prophets and all their people is
in vain if the work of temples does not go on; when you think of the prayers
that have been said for countless generations that Elijah would return and
usher in this work; and when you think that here, on the isles of the sea, that
work is going forward; it is no wonder that a temple of the Lord would have a
visible protection.</div>
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And you dear daughter, valiant mother in Zion, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFsbL2PuO8RniLejI30OENMAnKWbor73ft7V_CWrBmlXfXJew4qvAiIyBkiC8rguFFjmesfyi7-GEGHJxG6cBmJrSKg10ZHp8Vkh7j3oKmbbGYrrvwjOrWwf3bJPO88RhslAEtObM_1SHU/s1600/467470_3517449626034_1963108893_o.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFsbL2PuO8RniLejI30OENMAnKWbor73ft7V_CWrBmlXfXJew4qvAiIyBkiC8rguFFjmesfyi7-GEGHJxG6cBmJrSKg10ZHp8Vkh7j3oKmbbGYrrvwjOrWwf3bJPO88RhslAEtObM_1SHU/s1600/467470_3517449626034_1963108893_o.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a>are part of
this great work too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We picture that
same protection, hovering over your entire family, holding it together,
protecting you as a unit because you faithfully chose to lay claim to the great
blessings and promises of the temple. We could not be more proud of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are astonished at your courage, your cheerfulness
(I know, gratitude is the secret!!) your pioneer spirit—forging ahead in school
and life, with its current added struggle, as if it wasn’t extremely hard.</div>
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May God continue to keep your family within his protecting care.</div>
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Love always,</div>
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Mom and Dad </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipuXgAK6ffq87ehjZLuqXiBjrACvPsujYky8wySWMXp-v6hygHRm-d9YXh-zX2ZKd712jYmZ18naCM3QBunSshShX6DDvd4_S7ds2jbUGqUXhshivEz4sfyzo6VVvnBMJCnraf6FtyxvMK/s1600/614482_3517455946192_1751647314_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipuXgAK6ffq87ehjZLuqXiBjrACvPsujYky8wySWMXp-v6hygHRm-d9YXh-zX2ZKd712jYmZ18naCM3QBunSshShX6DDvd4_S7ds2jbUGqUXhshivEz4sfyzo6VVvnBMJCnraf6FtyxvMK/s1600/614482_3517455946192_1751647314_o.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Different times of the day it's still there</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiINfvCa4qNsmRZRCGK_TbAqBuPJsege9gNj4UK_ivU1n7wNAQf_oOPkrtWKso970jkolHjjr65GHW4hWUbmSYnl1NZstX9xtdF3AQPUuFbOfFxWhvmI6xVzUONSkDnHPcxPsfsfjAjb6SW/s1600/616237_3517449026019_1721225900_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiINfvCa4qNsmRZRCGK_TbAqBuPJsege9gNj4UK_ivU1n7wNAQf_oOPkrtWKso970jkolHjjr65GHW4hWUbmSYnl1NZstX9xtdF3AQPUuFbOfFxWhvmI6xVzUONSkDnHPcxPsfsfjAjb6SW/s1600/616237_3517449026019_1721225900_o.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perhaps protection, perhaps celestial power. Maybe through God's lense he sees our personal temple this way.</td></tr>
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I wrote this a couple of weeks ago, but didn't post it yet. Maybe it's too sad for this venue, but then, maybe not posting it is not real honest. There are no photos, but maybe my words will paint picture enough.</div>
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Today sister M came to church for the first time in a
while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is a tiny, elderly, emaciated,
hunched-over woman with the look of death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her teeth are all but gone, her mouth black inside, her bones too sharp,
too prominent, her flesh non-existent under her draping skin, under her
drooping clothing. Her mouth stays open, of necessity: her breath comes shallow, with a tiny cough on every exhale,
until eventually she gives in to a wracking, gurgling fit of coughing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her eyes, hollow and deep, reflect bull-dogged tenacity and echo desperation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She shuffles, too weak to really lift up her feet. The Branch President
helped her get treatment (arranged for rides to the clinic, church funds for
appointments, medicine) which she has been on for
6 months, for her tuberculosis, but her chest is not clear. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no idea how she stays alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Today, as usual, she has a child (anywhere from 2-7--you can't tell by normal size or developmental cues due to malnutriton) with her—this one a
granddaughter, you can guess by the pink shift she has on—sometimes it’s two or
even three kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last time I saw her,
maybe a month ago, she had the same girl with her and the girl’s head and
shoulders were covered with angry red and black scabs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back
then, sister M had to take the child out of Relief Society because she was
crying--sort of a moaning, high-pitched whimper--but she was too weak to pick her up, so she just pushed her along with
her foot, till the lady next to her picked up the child and carried her out.
Think of the risk involved in that act of unselfish kindness—the child almost certainly a
TB carrier, and the disease that caused the scabs?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This week the girls scabs have healed, the
shaved head covered with an ultra-short layer of hair, but the scars from them on her
back are still visible. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She didn’t cry
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her big empty eyes and blank
expression tell the story: she has learned that crying is futile. A sister
translated for me, as we listened to Sister M tell of her most recent
plight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her granddaughter had a baby recently,
and after 5 days, left the child with Sister M and fled the island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sister M is left to care for yet another child
she cannot carry or feed—an infant she will most certainly infect with TB.</div>
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Back in the flooding last year, Sister M and her husband ended
up at the emergency shelter several times, each time rescuing from the flood
waters the multiple kids whom I don’t even think are all related to them. We
delivered rice and canned goods and water to them there at the shelter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we first met them, they lived in a hut
near the mouth of the Amlan River, a hut that we later saw filled with sand and
debris after the worst flooding, but which has since been rebuilt. Elder Cropper and
I thought she had recently relocated to Dumuguete, but then here she was at church
in Amlan today. </div>
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You needn’t ask the questions—Why? How? Who?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no answers big enough for a life
this broken.</div>
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Some people are so close to this
edge that precarious-ness is their way of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They teeter, grab a limb to steady themselves, wobble, regain their
balance, catch a gulping breath, then slide a ways and grab hold again—maybe
they are grabbing hold to a relative with a job who can give them a day’s rice.
Maybe they grab hold to a lender who is willing to lend them more money (this
time though they have to put up their ancestral home as collateral, even though
the loan is for 1/1000th of the house’s worth). Maybe they grab hold by marrying
their daughter off to a wealthy foreigner. Maybe they grasp a government program for the indigenous, or a free visit to the health clinic. Maybe they grab hold of a Branch
President who gives them assistance not just of the material kind but an actual
plan to get off the tight rope. Maybe.</div>
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We spend our time giving the most stability we can to the
most receptive people we can, in the broadest path that we can. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who are willing to grab hold of the Gospel,
who experiment on Christ’s promises, who have the patience to hold on to the
Savior even when their trials worsen during the process; those are the people
who make it, who get strong enough to be the one doing the rescuing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow Sister M
holds tight to her hope for a better life to come, and with the
power that only that hope can illicit, she finds strength to rescue the little
ones for yet another day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>But when we go
to bed, we are haunted by her face, her little ones, her tenacity. I wonder where the newborn is tonight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I let out a sob, and pray that Sister M. will let
go. Just can't she please let go? </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was National Family Week in the Philippines!</td></tr>
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Congratulations Taylor and Anne, Blaine, Roger, Carter, and
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Roger!! A baby daughter, sister, cousin, granddaughter!!
Anne gave birth to Clara Tillie on Sept 20, 2012 in her patented fashion--quick
and easy (I know, the word easy should never be used to describe a delivery, but I'm talking in relative terms).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If only her pregnancy could
have been as uncomplicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://mrscropper.blogspot.com/"></a></span></div>
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We got to
Skype with them within a few hours of her birth, and Rozanne sent a picture
immediately, so we got to feel as if we were there--well, actually, a far cry from being there,
but . . . you know. And we have Skyped since and can see that though Anne will have her
hands full with Carter (busy busy boy) and Clara, they all seem to be settling in to yet
another little Cropper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s an even
dozen grand kids for us in case anyone is counting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">For more information about Clara Tillie and pictures go to: <a href="http://mrscropper.blogspot.com/">mrscropper.blogspot.com</a></span></div>
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As the numbers grow and the list of birthdays expands, it
would be easy and maybe forgivable to think of this as just another grand
kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every life is a miracle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trite statement? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, but true nonetheless. How can something that
has occurred 6 or 7 billion times seem so unique, so mysterious, so
personal?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know how that is, but
I am grateful that we can revel in another miracle given to our very own family.</div>
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To acknowledge Clara’s birth, the entire Tanjay District
held a celebration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, the whole
of the Philippines celebrated all week—National Family Week—and the District
decided to participate by having a parade and an all day open house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were lots of dignitaries invited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure any showed up, but the Branch
members showed up in great numbers, and Amlan in particular was extremely well
represented which made Pres. B. very proud and I think personally grateful.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gathering pre-parade</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our little branch leads the way</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the national highway 400 strong!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Colina Family poster</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sister we baptized in action</td></tr>
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Of course I had to cry about the whole parade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were no floats, and only one vehicle,
but there were banners, and family t-shirts, and most people dressed in white (the
designated costume) and a marching band, complete with majorette and ‘’minors”
with batons a-twirl from Tanjay Central High School and another from I don’t
know where, in glorious Mardi Gras colors and lots of people marching and a cop
to direct traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was full on
awesome!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine, the District decides
on a parade, and traffic is blocked, people come out to watch, and the band
plays on.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What is a parade without majorettes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and a band</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who knows families better than LDS</td></tr>
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After the parade, everyone gathered back at the District
center for an open house where there were displays set up in every room and
videos going and activities for the kids, and tours and a program and awards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We learned about 72 hour kits and disaster
preparedness, and saw demos on how to make virgin coconut oil by hand, and how
to make soap from Kalamansi juice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
was a family picture-taking booth built in the parking lot, with guess who taking
pictures (actually he passed it off for much of the day, but his camera was in
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Elder Cropper and I were the concluding speakers at the end
of the day and amazingly there were still people there!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most, 400 plus, stayed all day!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The district provided snacks mid-morning and
mid-afternoon, and each branch fed their own people lunch, so that right there
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The parade stretched with members to about a 1/2 kilometer long</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It didn't rain on our parade but it sure rained at lunch time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making virgin coconut oil</td></tr>
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WHAT A GREAT EVENT!! WHAT A GREAT DAY!!!</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b>Welcome to this world Clara,</b> where there are whole countries
and small Districts, and individuals who still know and celebrate the value of
strong families—a place where God gives his children the guidance of Prophets
and Proclamations and, most important, parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Clara, yours are the best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we
all celebrate, YOU. </div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646706720925012717.post-62258735863063509762012-09-20T08:10:00.000-07:002012-09-20T08:10:48.289-07:00Shake Shingles<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Can’t think a lot of edifying things to share of late, but we
promised to try to get back to weekly, and there are some who actually look for a blog
weekly, so I’ll have to come up with something, edifying or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As some of you know, Elder Cropper has come
down with shingles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Why do we say “come
down with”? I can see, “is down with”, as in, “down for the count”, or, “down and
out”, but why, “come down with?”) Well, regardless or irregardless, he is down,
and shingles is the cause (subject/verb agreement becomes a real issue in that
last phrase; does shingles begin with a single shingle? Is the disease
singular, but the symptom plural?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>According to Melissa, our roving reporter and woman-on-the-street,
practically everyone she talks to has had shingles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to our internet sources, it can get
really ugly and last for literally ever, so the fact that Dean’s has been mild
is really a miracle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is fatigued,
headache-y, then the rash and shooting nerve pain and some skin numbness in
patches, but all are on the mild end of what we have been told.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have slowed WAY down in doing any work,
and that is another trial connected to the disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are struggling to stay focused and
motivated about our work while unable to do it or plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s tough. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although it is true that shingles cannot be
passed on, it is contagious in that a person who has not had chicken pox can
contract that disease from someone with shingles, so in addition to having to
stay home a lot to rest, we feel confined due to possible contagion. But we’ve
read that if your sores are healing and covered, it is safe to be around
people, so we will teach our class tonight, after he takes lots of ibuprofen
and acetaminophen. And we will go on our scheduled trip to Cebu tomorrow.</div>
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I guess the edifying part of this is this: when we finally realized
what it was, we started on the anti-viral medicine, but it is said to be most
effective when started in the first 48, or at most 72 hours, but we didn’t
start until 4 or 5 days after the initial symptoms. The missionaries in our
area had travelled to Cebu for training, and we were hesitant to call on Elders
from the next city, but we did, and they came and gave Elder Cropper a blessing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so proud of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They conducted themselves like true
representatives of the Savior, and gave the blessing with confidence and power,
seeking and gaining the direction of the Spirit. The Elder who sealed the anointing
promised a miracle of healing, and we truly feel we have received it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like I said, we started the medicine late,
but the case has been mild, the pain mostly controllable, and the area affected
small. It is still no picnic, but we know God intervened in the severity.</div>
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We did take pictures of the sores, but we are going to spare
you that experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yuck!! </div>
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Okay enough of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking up under an Acasai Tree</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Does the baby standing up have a child restraint seat?</td></tr>
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Mildy interesting language items:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1) In the island group called the
Visayas, which cover, I think more than half the Philippines, including the
large southern island, Mindinao, the people mostly speak a language called
Visaya, though there are other distinct (meaning incromprehensible to each other)
dialects with in the region also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, within
the dialect of Visaya, is a sub set that has regional differences only—like Scottish,
compared to English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is called
Cebuano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though Cebuano is a smaller
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The National language
of the Philippines is called Filipino. (I have no idea why the switch from Ph to F or from one p to two). It was formerly, and is still commonly,
called Tagalog. But interestingly, the language spoken by the largest segment
of Filipinos in their homes is Visaya. So, at school,
the children are spoken to and taught in their mother language (depending on the region), then they study
Filipino as a separate subject and English as another separate subject right from
grade one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine! 3 languages in school from 6
years old!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless of course you live in
a native Tagolog speaking area, like Manilla, then you are taught in Tagolog,
and study the subject of Filippino (same thing) and also study English.</div>
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So, when Filipinos speak English, they have to really work at adding the right gender. Of course they know the difference between male and female, but in their language, there is no place for it in the pronouns they use, so it's hard to get it straight. Therefore, we often hear a sentence such as, "the old woman, he said . . ." It's kind of the opposite of Romance languages which have (in my humble opinion) far too much gender--every blessed table and fig is a boy or a girl. Anyway, it does get confusing trying to follow a story where there are several people being told of and the hes and shes are being tossed around, and you're not sure if they are being used correctly or consistently. It's hard to tell if Jane went to school and Mark went to work or vice versa. And that's when people speak English.</div>
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The really big news of the week is that Taylor and Anne will welcome Clara Tilly into the world later today!! Anne hopes to be delivered of her new little girl in a few hours. </div>
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I'm trying to find what's edifying about us not being there for that, but instead I will focus on the miracle: yet another miracle. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amlan branch YM reading their new Liahonas</td></tr>
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WE are so sorry to have left it this long since we
posted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any other time our reason has
been technical problems, or something tangible like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time, our excuse is less tangible, but
no less real, and as I expound on the excuse, it will serve also to catch you
up on what we are doing these days.</div>
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In the early part of our mission, we worked hard and were
physically and emotionally spent at the end of each day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We spent time every day traipsing around,
visiting in homes, helping in crises, organizing community service projects and
teaching. Some evenings we were home by dinner, but others we were out late,
teaching a family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as some of those
efforts tapered down—the families we were working with had been sealed in the
temple, the area was recovering from the calamities, the organizations we’d
been working with were running along ok—we were called home for Melvina’s
funeral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we returned, we both had a
really hard time getting our footing again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Before, we hardly had a moment to plan our next move; everything just
kind of presented itself to us and we did it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We kept time out for personal study, and even got some exercise in on occasion, but we just kept going till we dropped.
</span>Yes, there were choices, but usually the choice was which of several
things we should do, not drumming up things ourselves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when we came back from America, we felt
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it was daunting thinking of
starting over and wondering where to start.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Up close these look like cherries growing out of the trunk</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From further away, is it a fungus or what?? </td></tr>
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But that lasted for about a week. Soon we were engaged in a
very different chapter of our mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had done a little training in the other district, Dumuguete, before
our US trip, but now we really started in earnest, by commission from our
Mission Pres. and under direction of the District Pres. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of our experience in Tanjay District,
and our intimate work with the branches here, we have learned a lot, and so we
have been training in Dmgt. district in a much different, more encompassing and
we hope more effective way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, and here comes the excuse:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we are having to do a ton more prep than
before to keep up with all the training. And prep time is what we used to use
for blog time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We prep in the evening or
in the day during a chunk that isn’t scheduled, and that is when we were
sometimes able to write a blog post. Before our schedule was more fluid—we
planned ahead, but often ended up not knowing what we would be called on to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, we schedule far in advance, and our schedule
is more predictably solid, but when we are not scheduled, we are preparing.</div>
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Oh and we added an Institute-type class that we are teaching
weekly in Tanjay Branch. We are teaching Church History and Doctrine and
Covenants—which also requires more prep than had we chosen one of the other
standard works or if we were not team teaching, which requires more coordination time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are having fun with
it.</div>
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But excuses are mostly ridiculous, since we make time for
what matters to us, and we are now repenting. We just can’t promise a weekly
blog, but we will try to do better.</div>
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Training is boring to talk about, but very exciting to
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So bear with me as I tell of our
exciting work of late. We'll start back in Tanjay again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elder Cropper was made the 1<sup>st</sup>
Counselor in the Tanjay District months ago, and I the District Auxiliary
Training Specialist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These callings
allowed us to engage on district and branch levels, but in reality, it limited
Elder Cropper’s training opportunities. He had real duties in the
District.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would train for a few minutes
in each District meeting he was in, but those meetings had agendas<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that had to be carried out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could make corrections on actions taken in
those meetings, and get a little training in in the process, but his focus
could not really be training. At the Branch level, we could visit and observe,
but then <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>too he would train less and
counsel more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did much in training in the
branches we visited in conjunction with the district RS, YW and Primary
leaders, and he too would meet just for training in a certain quorum presidency
or other, but it seemed very slow as we worked our way through each branch and
each organization therein.</div>
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In Dmgt. However, we have no administrative duties, so that
is very different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the biggest
difference is that Dmgt District is actively making specific plans and goals,
and steps toward goals in their efforts to become a stake by next year.</div>
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So we started at the top and did some training with the
district President and the presidency. Then we focused on 2 branches and had 3
trainings in each over 3 weeks’ time, training their leaders on Welfare and on
their roles and purposes, and on working together in Councils.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we had a big training with all the
district auxiliary leaders, AND THEY ALL CAME!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then I oriented with the new District Primary Presidency, who all
came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we trained in the District
Branch Presidents’ Welfare meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So,
in very short order we have been in front of a lot of people, some several
times, and they have just been so appreciative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We keep them over the hour and a half we promised, then they ask for
more and schedule for us to come back.</div>
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Some of the branches in Dumuguete are a little more affluent
then Tanjay, but still most of the branch leaders don’t have internet access
and so they can’t get all the many tools that are taken so for granted by
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are lucky if they have the
training pamphlets that can be ordered, or the forms that are referred to in
the manuals they do have. So to them, like in Tanjay, training from a live person is like a
drink of water to a thirsty guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They so
want to magnify their callings, but they just have not been taught how.</div>
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Our mission president and his wife have SIX DISTRICTS under them!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s in addition to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>155
missionaries and all their needs and instruction. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Pres. Schmutz <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>acts in many regards as the Stake president
for those six districts—doing all the first time temple recommends, the
patriarchal blessing interviews, the setting aparts and releases for all the missionaries
who come and go from each district, the District conferences (which he trades
off with the local area authority).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyway, the point is he and his wife have little time to train, other
than the twice a year they are in each district for their bi-annual conference.
That’s where we are trying to help.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">District Pres. Look at the great flowers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">tables and ladies all decked out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rio has nothing on these folks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the co-MCs kept everything moving and fun</td></tr>
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The most fun part of this new focus is that right after our
first meeting with the District Presidency, they invited us to a costume ball
that night—the first such event in the district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was an EQ and RS party for adults, held at
a local hotel near the district center, and it was so </div>
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lively and fun and
beautifully prepared, organized and attended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We told them that if Stake-hood was granted
based on a great fun had by all at a costume ball, then they would be a stake
already. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">winner of the costume contest</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the finalists</td></tr>
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They had the Young Women watching kids at the district
center, so parents could come from far, get their costumes on, drop off their
kids, and head over to the ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
they came in droves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope you like the
pictures. </div>
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We still feel like Amlan Branch and Tanjay District are our home here in the mission, and miss spending as much time with them, but we still have lots to do in both places. Time is just going by too fast.</div>
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Sara remarked recently that it seems every week we post a
testimony strengthening experience. It’s true, we have those every week, but
then you do too, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granted, some of
ours are sometimes pretty action packed, colorful, maybe exotic, so it is easy
to write about them, and way easy to recognize them and acknowledge the origins
thereof. That’s just one of the blessings of serving a mission. </div>
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God really is in control. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s true not everything is fast and
easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some things take months,
sacrifice, pain and concern, but mostly we are so blessed that we get to see
astonishingly quick outcomes, miraculous turn-arounds, and huge changes that
are only possible through God’s intervention and direction .</div>
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To illustrate my point, let me tell you of two baptisms and
two weddings all within 24 hours (with reference to a third). These actually
occurred a few weeks back, but due to birthday posts, and time constraints we haven’t yet recorded
these events here.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister B has flare--sequins on her baptism blouse</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Back ground to Baptism
1:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sister B is a single, woman—maybe my
age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has always been a school
teacher and also a farmer—she raises crops like mango, banana, guava,
vegetables. In recent years she has had some MAJOR set backs. Her husband, a
German man, left her and converted to Islam so he could take another few wives
without divorcing her (yes, divorce is not possible here, but polygamy is—if
you are Muslim—go figure). Then the relatively nice house he left her in
(because the property was hers) got demolished in a flood 3 years ago—one stone
wall still standing as evidence of her destroyed life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She moved farther from the river and built a
native house, but it too flooded last year and washed away all her belongings
and crops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then her work and salary were
reduced due to reduced enrollments at the school—the floods have scared
families enough in the barangay that they are sending their children downriver
to the school on the hill in the central part of town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, she was attending a church, but they
stopped fellowshipping her, and failed to hire her for a teaching position
there that she was qualified for.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sis B working with us in her kindergarten</td></tr>
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We first met her when we started helping out at the
Tambojangin School after last year’s flood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is the kindergarten teacher there, and it was her <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>classroom that had been demolished from
typhoon, flood, and earthquake, (another setback) and that we are just finally
finishing up.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zone work project at Sis B's pre-school</td></tr>
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The Elders invited her to learn about the church, she was
intrigued on many levels—foreigners who spoke Visaya; a whole congregation and
a dozen missionaries willing to spend a day helping a school that was not even
their own; then missionaries coming back for several more days over the next
few weeks to chisel the schoolroom floor down to existing cement and
paint walls and doors—serving and working physically with no pay to help
others; people in America who actually were providing the funds for the
materials and skilled labor.</div>
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She wanted us involved as she was being taught, so we all four (us
and the full-time missionaries) went and she has been so receptive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She accepted every commitment, kept them,
read everything we assigned, attended church every week, and in a few weeks she was
baptized. This time Elder Cropper was the one to perform the ordinance: his
first one since we got here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Only pic I took at the Catholic wedding. Notice the date, our anniv.</td></tr>
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Background for wedding no 1: Way back just after the typhoon
we were doing water delivery runs in the truck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We took water to a member of the branch who was digging out from a
mess-load of mud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his sister were
there and very grateful for the fresh water. There was also an American
lingering about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He finally admitted he
was from Utah—a very in-active Mormon, dating the sister of this Filipino
member.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well a few weeks ago he and his
Filipina fiancée and his very white mother showed up in church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They invited us to attend the wedding in the
Catholic church and the reception here at the resort we live at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We attended that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Wedding no 1:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
wedding was elaborate: with white calla lilies galore and tons of flowers and
ribbon and tulle and candles and matching outfits for bridesmaids and
groomsmen. We were the only people there who were not from the girl’s family or
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was even a jazz band
right there in the church, soloists, readings, and all the pomp of a wedding
and mass, including communion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was
no doubt of the devotion to Christ and the focus on supporting the couple in
their new life together.</div>
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The reception too was elaborate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More flowers, more singers, sit down buffet
dinner for 200: the kind of thing that I think is only possible here on our
island if there is a lot of debt involved, or a foreigner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were very well treated—everything was
lovely, and the resort owners (our landlords) and staff did an amazing job,
setting up everything under tents because it had not stopped raining for 2
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few minutes into it I asked one
of the men I knew, who was connected to the family, if we could maybe use the
flowers for the wedding that would happen the next day—a wedding that would NOT
be so elaborate. He asked, and it was okayed, so after the banquet, the flowers
were delivered to our porch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a
bridal bouquet for the bride from several of the lilies, some yellow mums, and
a green fabric I had to cover the stems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It looked really lovely.</div>
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SO, background for wedding 2: a few years ago, a single man
in his forties, Brother V, a temple going man in the branch, fell in love with
a younger girl, Sister C, and tried to get married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there were complications with her
paperwork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She needed a written
permission from each of her parents. Her dad is dead, but there is no death
certificate to prove it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The process
stalled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several people, including the
former missionary couple and the branch president, intervened, trying to sort
it out, but the dad died in Mindanao, where the records are different and hard
to access, and even if they went there, there was probably not really a certificate
made, and there was nothing to be done but wait till she was 25 which was a few
years away and would need no permission.</div>
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Well, waiting proved too great a task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The couple moved in together and soon she was
pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course the man had stopped
coming to church, feeling more than awkward there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few months ago, we tried to get involved,
wondering what the problem with the paper work was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time the Elders sought out the
family and started teaching the woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was very receptive to the gospel, understood it, loved it, and
wanted to be baptized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then her baby was
born and it was still not settled with the marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looked like a dead end.</div>
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Now go back in time to another wedding (we'll call it wedding 3 even though it happened first).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It too had been held at Paradise—wedding AND
reception—and had been performed by the Mayor, and Elder Cropper had been asked
to speak since the groom is LDS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, Elder C. and the Mayor at the
head table h became best buds, chatting for an hour about everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That friendship, along with some colossal
community service by church members over the last few months, has completely
changed the mayor’s view of Mormons—from a quirky fringe group to a mainstream,
valuable contribution to the community.</div>
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So, in a climate of friendship with the mayor, we made an
appointment to see him about this problem—there’s always a solution right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We explained the problem and he confirmed the
former conclusion—there had to be a death certificate—no way round it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then we pointed out that the girl’s
mother is re-married, something that is impossible in the Philippines without a
dead former spouse (believe me we did NOT delve into what documentation may or
may not have been available for that union--maybe it was purchased).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He grinned and said oh then let’s see what we can do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He called in his head of Social Welfare, asked
her what could be done, she said they could have the mother sign an affidavit
that the dad was dead, we set up the appointments and found out fees and signed
them up for the pre-marriage class, walked them into the office a few days
later, with the mom, and soon it was squared away.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sis C and Bro V getting married at the mayor's office. Sis C with the bouquet</td></tr>
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Finally, wedding 2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were still sticky moments, two or three times when it looked as if
it would fall apart, including a document that had to be produced and filled
out at the Mayor’s office, but this was Saturday, and no one was there to do
it, so he had to call in his secretary and the document worker and we
waited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But eventually, we stood in the
Mayor’s office as he pronounced them husband and wife in front of several
witnesses from the branch and from her family. She was carrying the bouquet I’d
made of left over flowers, but she was tearfully, joyfully happy, and so was
the groom.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy family! Married and baptized.</td></tr>
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We hurried from the City Hall back to the church (Elder
Cropper shuttling several people in the truck in several loads) where we were
now over an hour late for the baptism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They (Brother V and Sister C) wanted both wedding and baptism to occur on
the same day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soooo many people were
there for Sister C. and for Sister B. and for the wedding celebration that the
branch had pulled together for after.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A day to smile about.</td></tr>
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Baptism # 1 and 2: The baptisms themselves were
wonderful—Sister B was waiting all this time for Sister C and the rest of us,
but she was fine with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the
wedding was so late, there were lots of people who had come only for the celebration
later, but who ended up being there for the baptisms, and everyone there was
able to feel the spirit of the event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The nervous waiting in the office for the mayor, the years of waiting
for the marriage, the sacrifices each woman had made to be there were all
forgotten as they each stepped into that font, accepted the name of Jesus Christ
and made promises to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Afterward each
woman bore powerful testimony of the truth of what they had been taught and
accepted, and we cried for joy with them over all the miracles and trials that
got them each to this point.</div>
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Wedding 2 reception: We were so proud of the branch members.
The branch knew the bride and groom’s families had nothing, so they pooled
their activity budgets from every organization and called this a branch
activity—they set up a food committee, which I helped with (relegated to
chopping for hours since I have NO skill in the menus and cooking equipment
here) We matched the branch funds to add to the quantity and variety, a couple
families added to the menu as they could, the set up looked lovely with the
flowers from the night before, and we had ordered two large sheet cakes. The Branch
President pulled off a small ceremony and our Branch nightingale, Sister K,
with a voice that should be on American Idol belted out a love song in Visaya.
The couple danced, the bride cried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone celebrated.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's right, 36 years. A celebratory lunch.</td></tr>
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They didn’t know that in the midst of these 2 days of
wedding and baptisms, we celebrated our 36<sup>th</sup> anniversary—we even had time for lunch at a restaurant that day. We received not a single well wish from home (I add that as part of our reality here so far away, not as a guilt trip for anyone) but it felt good to share in all this goodness
while we thought about our own wedding and life together.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646706720925012717.post-6763067334306246082012-08-11T22:51:00.000-07:002012-08-11T22:54:10.953-07:00Flowers for your birthday MomDear Mom, Happy Birthday!!<br />
Moses 2: 31. And I, God, saw everything that I had made, and, behold, all things which I had made were very good...<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd-zbCfneOtjVnvPdOIJN1IPgT0jgmbzUwW6xhp234x8pQCHMKbKP0rvYz-yoXBLzs-afq2TkNa_fZxmtPPqLse3U_lROLxZ665a4765CNCi2OMMUlTVIw8HzhvAH5dRtn60ZJmMTqgHG2/s1600/P1020464.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd-zbCfneOtjVnvPdOIJN1IPgT0jgmbzUwW6xhp234x8pQCHMKbKP0rvYz-yoXBLzs-afq2TkNa_fZxmtPPqLse3U_lROLxZ665a4765CNCi2OMMUlTVIw8HzhvAH5dRtn60ZJmMTqgHG2/s320/P1020464.JPG" width="320" /></a>We thought we would send you flowers for your birthday!<br />
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Our birthday blogs are limited to our children, their
spouses and children, and our moms, but now that Melvina has left us, you are
our only living mom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gives one pause,
on so many levels, and makes us all the more grateful to celebrate your life.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBXqTCgLDDOV3Y9N-vmtqitT0aiy9JhfCcIn3NNA1hiJPDyG6GxgewDYAjfNDj1KmvO4yTuEwJZP6V8PF7FkXwU_xfnxZp6ovtvdw5wdOtiuF666oTBLrrRxkog5No2FbstnCr96l2ASX5/s1600/P1020849.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBXqTCgLDDOV3Y9N-vmtqitT0aiy9JhfCcIn3NNA1hiJPDyG6GxgewDYAjfNDj1KmvO4yTuEwJZP6V8PF7FkXwU_xfnxZp6ovtvdw5wdOtiuF666oTBLrrRxkog5No2FbstnCr96l2ASX5/s320/P1020849.JPG" width="320" /></a>We hope you are having a SMASHING time on your river cruise
in Europe!!—just what all 80-plus ladies are doing I hear—but we also hope you
have a chance to check your internet and see our good wishes for you birthday,</div>
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Some of my earliest memories are of you stopping and
pointing out to us something lovely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’d
be busy, going fast, not paying attention, maybe quarreling in the car, or
running ahead of you on a trail, and you would make sure we didn’t miss the
beauty around us. Sometimes it was a sunset, a herd of elk, or a particularly
beautiful garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxP-JXUkkTO4dKbTzHw3V2y0DBkeCcmk6g28FMKavuWhGoByIUXjjgiAi9j2dX-S_PcdwTeOXSLt7CGklbcC-PwetaMqGMBRyTqgfovF-IP9b4-aUPimoF970UH2_ta9Z8IGH-kvqZ1kCI/s1600/P1030210.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxP-JXUkkTO4dKbTzHw3V2y0DBkeCcmk6g28FMKavuWhGoByIUXjjgiAi9j2dX-S_PcdwTeOXSLt7CGklbcC-PwetaMqGMBRyTqgfovF-IP9b4-aUPimoF970UH2_ta9Z8IGH-kvqZ1kCI/s320/P1030210.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Often it was a
flower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Later, when Jack came into our lives, he added another whole
dimension to flower viewing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’d do
whole day trips filled with nothing but flower photography, and back then, with
pre-digital cameras, it was no easy task to get a clear close up of a tiny
flower. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could make them look so surreal,
like he had invited us into another world, where the intricacies of a tiny
flower were visible and startling.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZebOLpZQmri06exhjUozOjEh366CmdGRcRG0KGGPWArxs-emmPvvn3YjkJGDn7VqNpEvNuHtLengNS5o7lpLsRXuvqRGGnh8IM3AhtotCRqxpy2fKDkUBZEDuGijTqrqsZqGVXAY1_tsK/s1600/P1030771.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZebOLpZQmri06exhjUozOjEh366CmdGRcRG0KGGPWArxs-emmPvvn3YjkJGDn7VqNpEvNuHtLengNS5o7lpLsRXuvqRGGnh8IM3AhtotCRqxpy2fKDkUBZEDuGijTqrqsZqGVXAY1_tsK/s320/P1030771.JPG" width="320" /></a>Well, Dean has been capturing flowers everywhere we go, here
on our island and the next, and though the skill required now is not commensurate
with that needed back in the day, his patience and good eye, and knowledge of
his camera’s capabilities have produced some really great results. From the
first few weeks we were here he was already taking flower pictures, and I told
him we should save the flower pictures for Mom’s birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We amassed quite a catalog of flowers of
Negros Oriental for your enjoyment. </div>
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Because of your life-long love of flowers, your
determination to help us notice them, the fact that you are the one who gave me
names for most of those I know, and your green thumb and dedication in growing
them even now, I can truly say, like the Primary song, “Dear mother all flowers
remind me of you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFrFnU1xlRHgzvpFmvVwhiZ8OvLmWmP4AZOppphnRagrXFzrUSmyH-wy4qU-ygT2uEY5-QwJo39peQKvxvxqG8ylq07vj0j2iBhyr6lpPv9amJO6_VSrU1T_IWEUJDICGnLyBilR0ni_U/s1600/P1030782.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFrFnU1xlRHgzvpFmvVwhiZ8OvLmWmP4AZOppphnRagrXFzrUSmyH-wy4qU-ygT2uEY5-QwJo39peQKvxvxqG8ylq07vj0j2iBhyr6lpPv9amJO6_VSrU1T_IWEUJDICGnLyBilR0ni_U/s320/P1030782.JPG" width="320" /></a>Next week in our blog post we will tell a story of some flowers
recycled from one wedding to the next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When you read it, remember the story is also part of your birthday
flowers blog post and is dedicated to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I arranged for the flower exchange--to the bride who had none--partly due to
the appreciation you have given me that loveliness matters, that God’s bounty
enriches life, and that people feel God’s love through His lovely creations.</div>
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We hope YOU enjoy this display of the flowers WE enjoy every
day. Thanks Mom for teaching me to see them, name them, and love them. And thank you for your example of always giving freely of your bounty so that others could feel God's love through you.</div>
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We love you MomUnknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646706720925012717.post-86019985234456581442012-08-06T05:48:00.000-07:002012-08-06T05:48:36.238-07:00Happy Birthday Simon!!<br /><br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Happy Birthday!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Wanna hear some stuff about this place we are living in? </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This guy lives permanently outside our kitchen window. We see him every day<br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Most of the houses that people live
in here in the Philippines are very small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since it never gets cold here people don't have to worry about heaters
to keep the house warm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, many
people build their houses to let as much air in as possible to make it
cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although, there is more than air
that gets into their houses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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have BIG house spiders and also lizards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They don't mind these critters in their house because they eat flys,
mosquitos, ants, and anything else that is little and moves. I am glad we are
big or we might get eaten. The house spiders here are really big but they don't
bite people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes we will see
little kids carrying big spiders on a pencil--we have seen that many times. And we have heard that w<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>hen their friend has a spider on a pencil, they will put the pencils
together and let the spiders fight each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When we go visit a certain family, this guy is always there eating bugs on their wall. They call this big kind tohkoh<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and this one live in our house, They call this smaller kind teekee.<br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">It</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s pretty cool I bet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Heavenly Father has created such a magnificent world for us
to live on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here in the Philippines, I
am always amazed at how much food there is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mango trees, papaya trees, jack fruit trees, banana trees (by the kagillions),
coconut trees (bazillions), and many more varieties. It is like the Garden of Eden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there are all the vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Then there are the ants!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything that is living or was living, if it
stays still or is dead, the ants come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thousands
of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Highways of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They find everything that can be eaten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes we find ants eating something and
we see the ant highway connecting what they are eating to their nest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is so amazing that the ants have lookout
ants so far away from their nests that are looking for food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also amazing how fast they can send the
signal back to the nest that there is FOOD or danger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think they have little radios connected to their antenaes that they
can transmit signals back to base and the rest come running or dash for cover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Let me tell you a story about that. We had the missionaries
over to our house for pancakes one morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scratch pancakes with oatmeal--some of Grandpas finest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well we ate all but one of the pancakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That one pancake I left on the counter in the
kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was in there for about one
hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went into the kitchen about an
hour later to eat that last remaining pancake and there were about 1000 tiny
ants munching down that pancake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the coolest bug we've seen--he was on our screen door<br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I think Heavenly Father made ants to be the clean-up
critters that eat whatever is left over and what ever dies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost every time I kill an ant (or about a
1000 of them), I think that these little critters are so small and complicated
that even the smartest human </span></div>
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">couldn</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">t make even one ant but it is
easy to kill a thousand of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The handiwork
of God is so magnificent!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">People think they are so smart, but w</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">e can</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">t even begin to understand something that is so easy and
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you look at God</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s creations, think of Him and that this world was created
for our good because we are children of our Heavenly Father and he made this
world because he loves us and wants us to experience joy and the excitement of
learning and never being able to learn all about everything that is around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wants us to learn about flowers and bugs,
trees and mountains, rivers and fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But most of all He wants us to learn about the most important thing we
can learn, about Jesus Christ (Jesu Kristo) and our Father in Heaven(Amahan sa
Langit).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">there are SOOO many fat frogs in our yard and everywhere, especially at night<br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Learning is fun because we are learning about what Heavenly
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">We have always loved how you love to try new things and explore God's creations. YOU are one of God's special creations, and we are SOOOO glad we get to see and know the miracle that is you. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The captain and his first mate haul us to shore<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a lovely chapel near the area where the cool waterfall your dad saw is<br />
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<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Happy Birthday Simon.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646706720925012717.post-65682472667030088982012-08-02T08:36:00.000-07:002012-08-02T08:36:15.092-07:00Happy Birthday Shane!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Take a close look. Is it any wonder that the power goes out!<br />
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Happy birthday!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
can’t believe we pulled this off with all our outages of late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have had not one but two typhoons go
through here in the last two weeks—nowhere near as calamitous as the big one
last December, but nonetheless they brought high winds and strong rain and much
shannanigans to cable, internet, phones and electricity. In the main island of
Luzon there has been lots of flooding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even our water supply was in and out.</div>
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But all is restored!! Just in time to wish you a proper Cropper
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As you know, Sara’s Grandpa Cropper was a safety engineer at
Geneva Steel and retired after 37 years of service. He was close friends to the
safety people at Kennecott. If you two had been contemporaries, you would have
known each other. Your career in industrial hygiene and your job at Kennecott
with Rio Tinto seems to us to be along the same lines, although I’m sure there
are tons of differences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With all that
in mind, we decided to start your blog post by introducing you to Blaine a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was always concerned about safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had seen too many accidents that all could
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three on the bike with laundry and dinner. You can't even see the driver.<br />
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been avoided had there been a little care taken. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a poster made for him by his co-workers
that said, “Blaine Cropper, Mr. Safety”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This concern manifested itself in constant
reminders to his family. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, put
your seatbelt on or when he would walk into the kitchen, find a cupboard door
left open, then close it carefully and call out, “Safety Hazard!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoever left it open would get the point. He
was a kind, caring, highly competent and careful man, and his integrity was unwavering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You remind us of him in all those ways.</div>
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So, in his honor and of course yours, we would like to show
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Torpedos? Gas tanks? Scary going past this guy!<br />
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Of course it’s very easy to draw parallels between safety in
our home or work environments and our spiritual safety. We run into so many
people here (no different from anywhere really) who have forgotten their life
preserver, failed to wear their helmet, or over indulged in appetites that have
wreaked havoc on their lives and the lives of their families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a little restraint, forethought, and
care, so many of their problems—our problems—could have been avoided.</div>
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We are working right now to untangle a mess that started years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A baby was born 25 years ago
in Bayawan, and her parents failed to register her birth, so she had no birth
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They then moved and had her baptized in the
new town using her accurate place of birth on that document.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They kept moving and each time they would
register her for school, they would write in that she was born in the new
town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a short cut, to avoid
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Fast forward to 5 years ago, to age 21, she wants to get
married but has a wad of documents that are all conflicting as to her place of
birth, and her baptism record, the only accurate one, and the one that carries
the most weight to reconstruct a birth certificate is lost. So her sister has a
great idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She should go to </div>
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that priest
in her new town, and ask to be baptized—don’t worry that she has to say that she has never received the sacrament of baptism, and the
crazy thing is on the baptism certificate, she used the town she is now living in as her birth place instead of the real one she was born in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>(to give her the benefit of the doubt, let’s
assume she was ill-advised by someone who talked her into it being somehow
okay) in the same way her parents have done in the past, and put Amlan as her
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In the meantime, she and her LDS boyfriend are now living
together, she wants to be baptized into the church, but she can’t until she
gets married, but she can’t get married till she has a "delayed application
birth certificate" which she can only get if she is properly baptized with the
real place of birth.</div>
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We won’t even tell you all the work and cost and falderal that
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will come of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But suffice it to say, like any good safety
engineer or industrial hygiene professional knows, there are no short cuts—especially
when they mess with things like honesty, chastity, and virtue. The other truth
this illustrates is that making one mess, failing to clean it up, and just
covering it up or building over it will ALWAYS cause bigger problems than the original.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s true in industry, in business, and in
our personal lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Better to just face
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Shane we are so grateful that your family is now linked to
ours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are grateful that you are the
kind of man who we can trust to always take good care, not just of the physical
well-being, but the spiritual health and strength of your family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We find the parallels between you and Grandpa
Cropper very endearing and interesting—he is a man to look up to, and we see
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<div class="MsoNormal">We are sending out a group email and blog post regarding our internet situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully everyone who normally communicates with us will get the message.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Our internet provider had something happen to our tower (again) but this time the consequences are severe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every customer connected to that tower has to have a technician come to their home to re-calibrate (or something) their I P number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have called them, called again, and gone to their office in the next city over, received various stories and promises, and have the following info:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>looks like we are scheduled for Sept 2 for the technician to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Believe me I had to have a cry about that. We’ve been without access for less than a week and I feel so anxious about it, and now they say over a month more!!</div><div class="MsoNormal">We use the internet for so much more than keeping contact with home—much of our training materials come from the church web site and we download from there often, but have nowhere near all we need down-loaded for our ongoing trainings.</div><div class="MsoNormal">So, what we have to do now:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since every customer on the tower is affected, we can’t go to a nearby café to get access, or to the resort next door like we used to months ago, before our internet was connected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our only option is to use our Tatoo, a stick that allows us to access a phone-line internet connection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is slow, so no downloading or Skyping, and worse, it has limited reception, and none near our home, so to use it we have to travel to Tanjay or Dumeguete.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Bottom line is we will check our email as possible—sometimes a couple of days, sometimes several days between.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will probably not respond individually unless something is urgent, ‘cause there just won’t be time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, right now I’m sitting in the car in the rain parked next to the market in Tanjay, composing on Word, then hoping to send and post by Tatoo.</div><div class="MsoNormal">After all, we really DO live on a remote jungle island, And my name IS Mary Anne (a Gilligan’s island allusion for those of you who are too young to know) so our communication thus far has been a big miracle that is really not sustainable here.</div><div class="MsoNormal">We love you all, and with this fiasco, we realize how much we miss hearing from you, our life lines.</div><div class="MsoNormal">We owe many people a return email, but don't hold your breath. Sorry. Please pray for a pre-Sept 2nd miracle.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646706720925012717.post-84623293891485546992012-07-13T06:22:00.004-07:002012-07-13T06:22:55.796-07:00Happy Birthday Dear Taylor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Taylor, here we are in a
far-flung place, missing you, missing your family, musing on you and your
birth, wondering if we can come up with a post to equal that of your wife
(which was not only our most widely read post, thanks to Anne’s link form her
blog to ours, but also I think our most powerful post because it linked her and
her history with the culmination of our mission work up to that time), and it
occurred to us how grateful we are that you and Tanner made the effort and
sacrifice to come see us here, to make our experience here more real, more
tangible. And so, for your birthday we will document the visit of you and your
brother, remind you of some of the highlights and some of the lessons learned
and the people you both connected with. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wilbur, is that You??</td></tr>
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we might just hang out all the time, since this blog is a ton about beaches,
and waterfalls, and since the blog post a couple weeks ago had a beach
p-day/b-day included, but remember, we have saved these pictures from way back
last April, just after Tanner’s birthday actually. SO, though this blog is to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sige (rhymes with figgy--it is
likely the most used word in the Visayan Islands—it means “go ahead”, “ya I
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is said really fast twice or thrice, like affirming what’s been said, as in
“ya, ya, ya, got it”) Taylor, lets reminisce about the grand old time we had
while you two were here. You and Tanner had that business trip to China, so
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captions speak for themselves, but remember how great it felt to meet with the
people we had been telling stories of—a branch president who has grown into a
faithful and spiritual leader, a family preparing for the temple, a family
strengthened by their return to participating together in the gospel, a
cheerful man who regained the path to becoming worthy of advancing in the
priesthood to the office of Elder, and several others.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lost in the crab field. Crabs love chicken legs!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teacher's quorum president with his catch of fish!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look closely, there are about 25 fish. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister R with newborn and the boys</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe the most profound object
lesson Dad has learned while here was one you and Tanner experienced with
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told the story at Grandma
Cropper’s funeral, but I will retell it here for the record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember when you went out to the home of
Brother and Sister R?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are squatters
on a spit of land between a tidal lagoon and the ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Granted, the surf is not high here, but the
tides vary greatly, hence their home is on stilts. As we walked up to their
house, one of the sons walked in from fishing with their unique fishing
contraption with a bucket, and Dad asked him what he had caught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then you all looked in the bucket and there
was nothing visible except water, Dad said, oh, too bad, you got skunked.
But the son answered yes,, I caught fish. He said there are about a
hundred fish in the bucket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You all
looked at one another questioning his response, wondering if he had understood
the question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad looked again and there
was nothing and stated the obvious, “but there is nothing in the bucket but
water.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is when the lesson
came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The young man explained that he
had been fishing for the tiny hatchlings that can only be seen by looking very
closely with a trained eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You have to
look for the tiny black dots. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Those are the eyes.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once he had explained and you understood what
to look for, all of a sudden you could see that there were indeed dozens of
sets of tiny eyes squiggling around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They had always been there, but you had not seen them until you were
taught to look with different perspective, and you were willing to look again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brother R catches these tiny baby
fish, takes them to a man who has a tidal fish pond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sells them to the guy who will then raise
them and sell them again when they are grown, about 12" long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brother R taught a great lesson that day, and
Dad connected it to our missionary work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We teach people every day, including brother R’s parents and siblings,
about things they could not at first see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But, if they are willing to be taught what to look for, if they are
willing to look again, the gospel appears before their spiritual eyes—very real
and quite evident.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner by the pool at the end of the day. MA is in Utah with Sara and Isabelle</td></tr>
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Tanner chose to come see us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know it’s
a stretch, but for us, your visit made our work here more real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve been out fishing, day after day, and by
your coming to look in our bucket for real, it made our work matter all the
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contributes to our ability to be here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thank you for coming to visit and share with us this amazing place and
our amazing experience. Thank you for loving your wife and teaching your
children and staying connected with your siblings and magnifying your calling
and on and on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your life is a reflection
of the blessings of the Gospel Jesus Christ when we choose to live it fully.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Which one is Tarzan??</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">About an hour away from our house</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is really cool!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the way for a little fishing. The teachers quorum president out fished us this day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What if we sauteed this in butter with a little salt?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a jungle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can I swing over the river???</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Taoist temple in Cebu City</td></tr>
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Just when we thought it was safe to go outdoors—as in we
haven’t had a natural disaster in, what? weeks?—we had two days back to back of
being out for way too long in way too severe of weather.<span> </span>One day it was rain and mud, the next brutal
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Remember we told you of a man who found a tattered Book of
Mormon on a river bank, read it, prayed about it, had revelatory dreams
regarding it (ya, sounds like a church video, I know) and finally sleuthed out
what church it belonged to and asked if he could join?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, if you remember in that story, when we
met him to invite him to speak in district conference, we started talking to him
outside on a bench, then moved, due to rain, onto his front porch, then had to
move, due to leaks, to his inside sala (front room, but picture no furniture,
just a bamboo floor), then had to move again, due to torrential leaks, to his
bedroom (picture no furniture, but a hook with clothes and a rolled up mat). Here
we stayed and recorded his story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
ubiquitous leaks continued to try us, but they were fewer. The sound was deafening,
but we huddled down and listened to his story.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">126 stairs then 1,463 steps up into the wilderness--we counted</td></tr>
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Well, his wife was about to be baptized this week, and on Friday the
missionaries in his congregation organized a service project to help repair his
roof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, the zone missionaries, 12 of
us, drove in our truck (6 in the cab and 6 in the truck bed with canopy) to
their town, up a mountain, then we got out and climbed up a mountainous
staircase, then hiked higher into the mountain to where we gathered coconut
fronds, cut them down the spines and wove them into a thatch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not as solid as nipa leaves and the
weave they do with the nipa, but apparently it will suffice.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roof Weaving 101</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You don't learn this in school</td></tr>
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It was actually great fun learning to weave the fronds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trouble was the rain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was raining when we gathered at the
church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was raining harder while we
drove up the mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was pouring
(now really think of that word—imagine a pitcher, pouring water out) by the
time we got to the shelter in which we would weave the fronds, we were soaked
to our skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, dauntless we acquired
the new skill we’d come to learn, and got even more muddy than when we arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I must say, the sister who taught the
technique magically produced a product that was certainly more water resistant
than some of our attempts, but even ours would be a blessing to our Filipino
version of Lorenzo Vincente. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A spoon made out of Coconut husk for eating the meat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Climbing the tree for fresh coconuts. </td></tr>
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We cracked open a few young coconuts that a guy
threw down to us from about 80 feet up.<span>
</span>Elder Cropper was especially glad he had carried his bolo knife all the
way, ‘cause now he had a use for it. You can make a little spoon by shaping a
piece of the husk. We drank coconut water, scooped out the soft flesh, loaded
up our woven roofing and headed back down the mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you picture 12 muddy, soaked, sweaty
missionaries in a truck?<span> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With thatched
fronds on the roof?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See below.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">many hands make light work</td></tr>
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It was now too dark and too late to deliver the goods up to Bro.
O’s house (another climbing feat), but we were happy to know they would get
delivered by members, and soon brother O and his family would have more than
just a corner of their house dry in the coming wet months. Brother O baptized his wife on Saturday. On Sunday, he used his Melchizedek to confer upon her the gift of the Holy Ghost. They had a much drier house to go home to after.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It works just like a shingle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kanding (goat) one day old<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We are so happy to have a truck!</td></tr>
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Next day, Saturday, sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
R.S. Pres in our branch organized a 1-day-mission where all the sisters met at
the church, divided up the people who needed visits and off we went to find
folks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elder Cropper and the zone
leaders did the same, but in the air conditioned truck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went with a young sister in the morning, we
all met for lunch, then I went with 3 other sisters in the afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me tell you about hot. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clouds were gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun was merciless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walked for big chunks of the day, and when
we were not walking, we were confined in tight spaces with precious little air
flow, or were riding in pedi-cabs designed for Filipinos—ya, even tighter
spaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elder Cropper had driven off
with my umbrella, so I got my first really bad sunburn of my mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, after the rains of the day before, the
ground was literally steaming for much of the day—the humidity was
droopifying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just soaks the energy
out of you along with the sweat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
not usually as affected by the heat as my companion, but this day was way
beyond uncomfortable. I was begging for mercy—knowing we still had 3 serious appointments
that evening.</div>
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We all met back at the church, and reported on our
visits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone was positive about the
people they had found and the invitations they had extended, but you know how
that goes . . . People mean well.</div>
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Then came the miracles. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The people really did come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
sister who always has a million excuses—and very real they are— could not any
longer use them, after hearing testimony from her R.S. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pres. of her own trials in bringing her family
of 6 to church by herself, while her husband drank himself into a stupor and
now she has 4 returned missionary sons and her husband in the branch
presidency. And the sister who left the church in her 20’s after getting pregnant,
then married, then separated, and now living with another man, was given a blessing
in the afternoon after sisters found her ill in the morning, and she showed up
at church today with her live-in boyfriend and the son he is helping her
raise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had been ashamed to come
before, because of her circumstances, but she was loved, then healed, and now
she remembers what it feels like to belong to the flock.</div>
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Elder Cropper was in the comfort of the truck, but he did
have rough roads to drive and long distances at that, and he and the
missionaries also had their miracles—a baptism set, a blessing for the sick
sister, a lesson taught to a new mother.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happily engaged in the Lord's Work!</td></tr>
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So, rain and sun aside, the miracles continue.<span> By Sunday night it was pouring rain hard again. We happily pictured the O family under their new thatch.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646706720925012717.post-54114387023736241742012-07-03T06:57:00.000-07:002012-07-03T07:00:52.962-07:00The Big Guy Turns 60, 4th of July greetings, Dist. Pres dinner<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">P-day/B-day at the beach--glad senior couples are allowed to swim</td></tr>
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Happy 4<sup>th</sup> of JULY!!!</div>
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It is not even on the radar here. But we remember, and wish you all well as you
celebrate. The United States of America,
is a miraculous land, and we are grateful to be associated with it. We love it here, where we are being well
cared for and where we see new beauties every day, but we still miss home. We
will picture our family and friends in the U.S. barbequing, parade attending, and/or
fireworks watching, and we will say a prayer of gratitude for each of you, and
for the country you celebrate. Don’t start anything on fire!!!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He has still got a little wind in him to blow out the candles with some help</td></tr>
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Speaking of loving it here: Last week was Elder Cropper’s 60<sup>th</sup>
birthday!! We went on a little
b-day/p-day/ get-away. We left Amlan Tuesday, traveled to the south end of the
island conducting a couple of missionary apartment checks, attending a
companionship study, and taking another companionship to lunch along the way. We then drove to a resort Dean had checked
out and spent Tuesday night there, all of Wednesday and left early Thursday
morning to take care of more missionary stuff that day in Dumaguete. It was short but sweet and even productive
(yes, one companionship is on our outer darkness list of missionary
slovenliness—soon to be repented of) and felt like a great way to celebrate the
old guy turning 60 (the official age of a senior citizen here in the
Philippines—he now gets the premiere perks, like our own grocery line). We got
lots of birthday wishes from home and from here, and even got to celebrate with
a family in the branch Thursday night.
Their daughter’s birthday was a day after Elder Cropper’s so we had them
over for FHE, dinner and birthday cake. </div>
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Well the rain is officially back! Rainy season normally begins around June 1
but apparently it was a month late and now it seems as though Mother Nature
wanted to make up for being late by bringing the rain in like a lion. It rained so hard yesterday afternoon, all
night, and today it’s just moderate to heavy, but never letting up. Don’t worry, we have our mud boots. It’s time to relearn the Visayan word for
mud, “Lapok”.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5 district presidents, (it is an optical illusion, we are not that big)</td></tr>
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For the last three months we have been working to reactivate
a man who was called as the first district president of the Tanjay district in
1990. He and his wife both became
less-active upon his release. We would
meet with them about once a week and we felt like that was starting to push our
welcome, but as time went on it got to be a bit more comfortable as we got to
know each other better. Our visits
became less awkward and the spirit always made it into each discussion. As we talked about the gospel they both began
to remember the spirit that had once converted them. They would follow through on their reading
assignments, although coming to church was the biggest commitment. They had friends and acquaintances who were
still attending church and by coming they knew that once in church they would
be back. We have told you some of this
story before. He was one of the miracles of District conference. Last, last
week (that is a Filipino construct. They
say “last last week” and mean “week before last”, or they say “next next week”
and mean “week after next”. I kinda like
it) they attended church together and were so warmly received by old friends
who hugged and gave back pats etc. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first Tanjay district president and wife</td></tr>
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For the last month we have been planning on having a dinner
at our house for all the past and current district presidents and their
wives. It happened last last night. We had gotten commitments from all and a
confirmation from all again. Out of the
seven presidents we had five show up.
One, at the last minute had to out of town, and the other had a sick
wife. The brother who had been the first
president was here with his wife and really that was the main reason we were
having it. He is really a smart and
sharp guy with a rich and deep spirit.
The church needs him back. He and
his wife came and they had a great time, told a lot of stories, gave a lot of
history, and we felt the spirit. And, oh
by the way, ate a lot of food. (It is
interesting to type with ants on your key board). One of our goals in having
the dinner was to help the men and their wives remember their past service as a
means of recommitting them to moving ahead. We asked them to bring photos and
then we had them each fill out a questionnaire to spark and capture
memories. The current President was
there, and each man took a turn offering him advice, which he really
appreciated. The food was great, and the setting amazing out on the patio of
the resort.</div>
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There is a word in Visayan that I focused on teaching at a
Relief Society conference Saturday. The
word is “hinumdumi”. That means, the
command form of remember. To remember is
a commandment and a gospel principle. In
the book of Moses in the P of GP, we are told that the first scripture that was
created by inspired writings and revelations by Adam and his posterity was
called the Book of Remembrance. Helaman told his sons Nephi and Lehi to
“remember, remember, my sons”. Alma the
younger was struggling in the torment of repentance, until his mind caught hold
(he remembered) the teachings of his father regarding Jesus Christ and the
Savior’s ability to remove both spiritual pain and physical pain. Moses taught the Israelites that the law
needed to be taught to their children so they could remember it. Moroni taught us to “remember how merciful
the Lord has been from the creation of Adam down until the time that you should
receive these things”. The principle of
remembering is part of the principle of being grateful or
“nagpasalamat-on”. Well that is what we
are working to do when trying to reactivate those who were once enlightened by
the spirit: help them to remember –remember.
It is such an interesting phenomena to see these wonderful people as
they start to verbalize their memories.
As they do, you can see a light come on that shows on their face. It can’t be hidden; this light just shows
like two headlights shining in the dark.</div>
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Well this good brother and his wife have been going through
this remembering process and their lives are changing. A glow behind their smile, their eyes are
brighter, they are happier. This couple
is not the first ones we have seen go through this process. And the record of
the district is beginning to come forth—we will compile the notes from that
evening and begin the Tanjay Book of Remembrance. </div>
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The word for the week is – hinumdomi. I think that can become part of our thoughts
and prayers that we do more remembering, and ask Heavenly Father to help us
with our memories, so we can feel gratitude to Him.</div>
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P.S. sometimes people debate about who wrote which
post. I, Sister Cropper, write
most. This one, he wrote parts, I wrote
others. He always does the pictures. FYI</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5