Bob has put on a few pictures of the apartment.  It is small but we are comfortable.  We have to be careful with the water here.  As you can see on the kitchen counter we have a water purifier.  We can drink it that way, but I still buy most of the drinking water,  We brush  our teeth with it after running it thou the purifier.  We have to wash our fruit and vegetables in Zonrox bleach I have to put a few drops in the water.  And to do the dishes we put it in the rinse water.  One of our friends told us to even do the same with our meats  Chicken and pork.  It is hard to find a lot of the food items that we would like.  We have just the pans that they have left here.  All the stoves have these glass tops that you have to put up when you use them.  They are temper glass, but as I was cleaning ours the glass burst and we had glass all over.  We still have little pieces that we have to be careful. Several couples had them break.  They came and replaced it but I am beginning to think that we should have just taken it off.   I don't want that it happen again.  I was lucky that I didn't get glass in my eyes.
It is Sunday here about 6:00 pm and it says that it is 3:50 am there.  We have a grandson having his mission farewell today and we need to call him in the morning.  Christiaan (Lisa's son) he is going to Nashville, TN.  We are excited for him.  We know that he will do well. We are proud of you Christiaan and our prayers go with you. Wish that we could be there.  We know that we will miss many things before we come home.                                                                                                              Today as we went to church it is really different for us. As we understand very little.  They go from English to Tagalog it makes a long three hours.  The Sacrament, and the hymns are always in English.  And they love to sing the hymns.  As we go around the temple each day you hear the people humming or singing softly.
As I was helping in the laundry one of the young men as he pressed pants would hum a hymn and a lady there was guessing what it was.  It is fun to watch them.  The ones that are active are very faithful.  They think all American here lots of money.  We are blessed with so much.  And most of them have very little.  They say that only about 20 percent have cars.  Some of the people that work in the temple have to transfer as any as 4 times to get there.  Some only work one day a month.  And it is hard to schedule them because we never know when they will get there.  And when it rains it takes them longer.
They tell us that the rainy season will be over by the end of October and then it will be hot. They only have two seasons.                                                                                                                        I was thinking that it was pretty cool here as I don't have any dust on the furniture.  As we have a black bedroom set back home and it is impossible to keep clean.  I would never get black furniture again.  But as we were talking to one of the brothers that is working on the MTC here.  He told us that we will have dust.  And when it comes it will be like a black dust that will be in everything.  It's because of the rain that we don't have it right now. Something to look forward to.
We were told that the people here do not have retirement.  And their children have to take care of them.  They say that they make them retire at 65.  And the oldest child in the family doesn't get married because they are responsible to see that the other children get their educations.  It hardly seems fair.

One of the Philippine Sisters that come to the temple says that the people depend on others for help and that they need to learn to take care of themselves.   One sister she said wanted to go to the temple but she had borrowed from so many people and not paid it back that her Bishop would not let her go.  She didn't understand that. These are pictures of where we go to church.  These are the couples that we go to church with.  The church assigns us to the ward that we need to attend.  Also two missionaries assigned to our ward.  The little girl is the one that took are hands and placed it on her forehead.  That shows respect for their elders.  She is a real cutey.  Bob and I, The Bushes (she is Filipino) from Canada,the Hawkes from Idaho.  The  bus is one of the jeepys they call them.  Made from old jeeps from the war.  The paint them up and use them like little buses that as the go down the road the people just jump on.  This is how some of the people get to church.