At 10:30am on Sunday, June 4, our Olongapo District became the Olongapo Stake!! Elder Evan Schmutz presided over the two day conference with Elder Merdegia assisting. Years ago I witnessed this happening in Oklahoma City, but I was too young to remember our Oklahoma City Stake formed. This was amazing to feel the power and strength of the spirit in the room. Our new Stake President was sustained along with his counselors. Then, one by one, each Branch stood as their new Bishop was announced and sustained. The rest of the Stake and Ward leadership positions will be put into place as quickly as possible in the coming weeks. A Patriarch will also be named for our new Stake. Elder Schmutz encouraged those adults and young adults who do not yet have their patriarchal blessing to be ready to receive it.
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| Sisters, Sisters, Sisters |
Sister Dahle, our Mission President's wife, had the privilege of entertaining the wives of the two visiting seventies on Saturday before our evening session of conference...and she included us senior sister missionaries! When we have visitors, we go to Ocean Adventure Park for shows and the fish spa and then Camayan Resort to eat on the beach! We had fun getting to know each other!
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| Fun at Ocean Adventure Park! |
President and Sister Dahle will be released on July 1 as we receive a new Mission President. Because the Dahle's are from the USA, they won't have the opportunity to see many of their Philippine missionaries again. A Mission Reunion was planned and happened last week. The venue was changed to the church building right by the office. That made it very convenient for me to run over at different times during the day and still get my work done. I knew most of the missionaries that came; I was surprised at that. The missionaries all looked soooo good!
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| Mission Reunion 2014-2017 |
The two weeks that Donna has been gone have been very busy and full of activities!! Donna left on Saturday before our departing missionaries left on Monday and our new ones arrived on Wednesday. I know she hated missing this week because it is one of our favorites!
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| Our trainers are on the top row!! |
Two weeks ago, I talked about this transfer and how hard it was going to be for us! The Elders that were serving in the office, and were our Trainers when we arrived last April, finished their missions!! I jumped in this picture so that I could have one with my trainer! I love these missionaries!!! It just gets harder and harder to see missionaries go home because I have had longer to get to know them! We have another transfer in one week!!!! It was moved to 3 weeks instead of 6 weeks because of the transfer of mission presidents on July 1.
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| Auction Loads!! |
We had an auction last week. We are trying to clean up our storage areas and get rid of all our surplus 'junk'. I loved watching the purchasers load up their goods and drive away...not in trucks. Take a look.....it makes me smile!
Donna missed something else!!! I sent her this screen-shot from my phone.
For those of you who don't read Tagalog, this says that an earthquake of 5.4 magnitude is going to hit San Marcelino at 10:27pm...prepare!!!
Also notice that I received this emergency text notice at 1:59am!!
It doesn't matter, thank goodness. There was no damage to my building. I was in the middle of texting my other sister when it hit. Usually, they are so quick that I don't realize what I felt. This one was much stronger!! I was in the bedroom and everything was shaking, even the built-in closets. I knew what was going on this time!
One more great closing picture!!! These flood gauges are lining the highways through the cities. Summer is over in the Philippines. School starts back up tomorrow. AND rainy season is here...the season of floods, mud slides, and accidents. I had to make the picture large enough for you to be able to read the words! ;)
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| Flood gauge! |
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