At home here

This week was great! I feel so.... at home here. I told you my last area was rice fields and dirt floors and homes without electricity. After a few months I loved it. Here they have 2 malls, and cars everywhere. Yesterday we visited a family and they had a personal computer, laptop, and a wii! It’s just weird because I came from a place that was so poor. I’ve noticed there's not really a 'middle class' here, people are either super rich or super poor. It’s so strange still, but I love it.
We live with two other missionaries, I really enjoy it. It’s more fun because there's always someone to talk to and it never gets boring at night.

This week was intense. On Friday the temperature got up to 36.5C in Cabanatuan. We almost died. Saturday we had a baptism, it was so cool. i don’t know if you noticed from my pictures or other missionaries blogs, but we baptize a lot of children here. The reason for that is because people get baptized and then are inactive, so their children never get baptized. Eventually, a set of missionaries comes around and finds a less active family with children who have never been to church, and the parents agree to let us teach them. it happens all the time here. In fact, Pres. Martino wants most baptisms to come that way because the Philippines Area Presidency told him we need to find less actives and bring them back. it doesn’t do any good to baptize a person if they're going to be less active in a month.
I’m having problems using windows explorer. I probably won’t send pictures that way this week.
The city life is weird. I don’t like walking down busy streets, but it’s nice to sit on couches with pillows instead of bamboo stools mad 50 years ago.