22 months.

cooking eggs in the mission home.

Elder Williams and President Martino

Hello! I am glad she took pictures of me at ZLC. I also want you and dad to come here so we can meet Pres and Sis Martino.   It doesn’t matter when you come either way as long as you meet them.  I will just skype on P-day like last time. I'll try to skype around 9am our time, but I'll email you as soon as I get to the internet shop. 

This was a pretty good week. Last Monday we went to PhilRice and had a tour, it was one of those things that makes me wish you were here because you'll never see something so cool. We stopped at the museum and learned about the different types of rice and the way it’s farmed and the new technologies they have for rice farming. We also learned the Philippines can only produce about 70% of the rice that it needs as an entire country, roughly 30% of the rice is imported from other places. So PhilRice's objective is to get enough rice to make a giant storage if something bad ever happens they have rice to spare. This week was also ZLC, but this was the first time that Sister Missionaries have ever attended, so now it’s called Mission Leadership Council. President Martino talked to us about the Apostasty and Restoration.  We spent the night at the mission home, and the next morning (Wednesday) we went back to Munoz. By the time we got home I was feeling terrible and had a bad fever, so I just took some medicine and went to sleep. I woke up around 6:30 and couldn’t stand being in the house any longer, so we taught one lesson and then came home. On Thursday I woke up and was feeling good enough to work, but while we were working I felt terrible and my mind wasn't working the right way. President Martino also called us and said he needed some more information for the marriage he would be performing this weekend for us, so we spent time running back and forth trying to get it all together. On Saturday we had the wedding and baptism, President Martino married the couple that we are teaching and the wife was baptized right after.   After the baptism we had a small reception and then went to Tara Mindos (a swimming pool/ resort) and the branch fed us lunch. Elder Bellen spent most of the day getting together some last minute things before he left, so Theody (a branch missionary) and I played Uno for awhile. Then we met the Munoz  Elders for some ice cream, and then went home. On Sunday we went to church, and Elder Bellen was picked up around 1:30. I worked with the Munoz 1 Elders the entire day, and when we got home I didn't know what to do. I spent most of the evening walking around the house wondering why the time goes by so fast. 
My time is up!  LOVE YOU