Saturdays are busy days for the temple.  That is when most people here can come to the temple.  They come from long distances to get here.  And they come in big groups.  Bus loads and in what they call jeepys.  They are old jeeps that were used in the war.  They are all over the city.  As we were getting off our shift a jeepy came full of youth to do baptisms. Our days are really long here. We are working the morning shift for now. We start at 5:30 am and finish at 2:00 pm.  Once a month on Wednesday the missionaries from the MTC here in Manila come to the temple for the own endowments.  That is a busy day also.  Our first day was that day and we spent a lot of time in the laundry folding and putting packets together.  They were to busy to do much training that day.  We had to keep ourselves busy.
But now they have us doing everything.  The first few days we were able to eat lunch together.  But that will not happen much anymore.  The people are really sweet with us senior missionaries.
Today we went to church with two of the couples that are here with us.  We are assigned to 3 different wards. We did get much out of the Sacrament meeting.  But we both enjoyed the Sunday school and our Priesthood and Relief Society meetings.  They mix their language and english. So we were able to understand parts of it.  With the manuals we can  follow a little. The people are really friendly to the missionaries.  One little girl (about 4) came up to all of us and in Sacrament meeting and took our right hand and put it up to her forehead.  That is how they show respect to their elders.  (Grandparents).  They have told us that Bob needs to get a drivers license.  He doesn't want to drive here.  He hates driving in Salt Lake and this is really bad here.  One thing we need to learn to take our umbrella with us when we go out.  In four days we have gotten soaked twice.  Tomorrow we will be going out to the Mall for shopping.  When we arrived here the other missionaries had put a few of the things that we would need in our apartments.  Some fruit, cereal, UHT-long life milk (a gallon of milk here is $12.00 so they don't get that) , cheese, ham, and a loaf of bread, doz eggs, and some homemade cookies,  bar of soap, shampoo, one set of towels  and a new set of sheets.  That was very helpful.
We just got the computers up a couple of days ago.  And still do not have a phone.  We miss you all. We did bring our picture that we took at Christmas last year of Bob's family.  It doesn't have our little Declin or Kiresten in it, but it nice to have that.  We need a picture of my family now.