Monday, May 8, 2017

This is a family who belong to the San Miguel branch.  Typically their family transportation is a motorcycle which is slightly larger than a mo-ped.  A typical trip to church is on one of these but if the family is too large to fit onto a "bike" they must use a jeepney.  The biggest problem with people staying active in the church is that if a person has to pay to get to church and pay to get home, it is difficult to do it more than once a week and if a member is financially challenged that member cannot go at all.  Some live a great distance from the church which makes it even harder, and more expensive, to attend.  The branch president of the San Miguel branch has to go to 3 or 4 meetings a week and it costs him almost half of his weekly salary just to travel to and from the church each week.


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  1. Watching all the goings-on in the Phillipines currently. I assume the church is transferring missionaries out of unsafe zones, right? You two are safe, right?

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