June 15

I have not blogged this week due to the fact that Monday was Philippines Independent day and then our boss from Quizon City, (Sir Franco) Brother Franco Adzincula came to finish our training.  We spent Wednesday and Thursday with him.  We are free to travel and introduce ourselves to all our service missionaries and the Ward, Stake, and District leaders.  The new desk top computer arrived also and Dan will spend today getting it up and going.  Then hopefully we can get and send emails from our church emails.  We are at a loss as how to fix my AOL account as is seems to be a computer issue not an AOL issue.  I guess AOL does not like Toshiba.  Darn!  Some day we (that is the collective "we" meaning Dan) will figure it out.  He is our tech guy! Our boss, Sir Franco has a portable internet device called a Smart Bro that we will look at getting to allow us to have internet at home.  It looks like a flash drive. I was excited to see that.  Not having internet at home is a real drag.  Saturday we are going to drive over the mountains and see San Carlos.  I am excited to see more of this island.  Next week we will begin setting up times to visit and meet our people here and assess their needs.  I can't wait to meet some more new friends.  Here in the office we have Charry and Madaline to help us with our work. There are also the Institute Director, President Cobing and the Institute Coordinator President Deyro.  We have not really gotten to know them yet as they both have been traveling preparing for the new semester that has just started.  Yesterday for lunch we went to Chicken House and had Inasal chicken. It was great!  It is a Bacalod chicken specialty.  We will go there a lot I think.  We have yet to try the "fancy" restaurant "21".  The tables have table clothes so it must be nice.  Maybe for my birthday we will go.  We love you all and are so thankful for your prayers, love and support.  Know we think of you often.  Your are in our hearts and our prayers.