This is a photo of what happens in the clerk's office during and after a blitz.  Bishop Desalas of Santa Monica ward is on the left and Sister Desalas is on the right.  The photo shows the zone leaders,an assistant and two missionaries from the zone who are mapping and recording the information found in the Santa Monica blitz on Feb. 24th.

Leslie went to a different blitz with Sisters Morris and Cole.  We had trouble with the GPS at first and felt like we were probably going towards the church and then a man came up on a motorcycle and knocked on the driver's window and said he was a member and could lead us to the church.  He must have recognized that three elderly Caucasian women in a car who looked like they didn't know where they were must be missionaries and in need of rescuing.

Every Monday morning we buy our favorite breakfast, which happens to come from MacDonalds.  It's called Eggdesal and is like Egg Mcmuffin except it is on pandesal instead of an English muffin.  Pandesal is a roll which tastes very much like King's bread which is made in Hawaii. It's sweeter than the regular rolls we have at home.  I like the sausage ones and Ken likes them and  the ham ones.  They also have egg in them which has been folded up with cheese inside and then heated so the cheese is runny. Yay, Monday!  Our mission president says it's the best food in the Philippines. By the way, 39 pesos is 95 cents.

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On the 24th of February Ken went with Brother Cresencio, the EQ president of our Novaliches Ward into the community to talk with families of deceased people and get their death dates so they can be taken off the ward list.  Bro. Cresencio is taking the photo with himself and Ken and Sister Elguera.  She gave them the date for her husband's death in 2011.

We have gotten several things made at a local shoe establishment.  Ken had a black leather belt made (under $10) Leslie had sandals made (under $15) and Ken had some loafers made ($60).  They don't measure your foot, they TRACE it and measure the instep with a measuring tape.  Then they custom- make the shoes and you try them on when they're finished and then they ease them and stretch them where needed. 

At Nena's request we took a picture after church on Feb 18th.  Nena Cresencio of the Novaliches Ward is leaving on Friday to travel to the St. George Mission where she'll work in the Visitors' Center of the St. George, Utah Temple  There are 10 missionaries from Novaliches Ward serving missions and 45 from Novaliches Stake. It is more common for a sister to go on a mission here than it is at home.

Traffic is interesting here.  Something that is called "counterflow" here, at home is called "driving down the wrong side of the road".  If the lane on the other side of the road is more convenient or empty for a moment, someone will drive in that lane and the oncoming traffic adjusts.  Everybody is affected by the LRT construction happening in the middle of the road but some drivers are impatient and don't want to drive only in the right-hand lane.

We participated in another blitz on February 17  Novaliches Ward.  Ken was assigned to work with Elder Balucas and two YM.  They met and taught a family who was living with their grandmother, Eluminada Obrence, The children are Aleja, Rhaine, Whyne and Izeiyah.

The YM were Roger Yaon and Raymond Navarro.  The boy in the blue shirt was unknown but he also enjoyed having his picture taken.