We have arrived! The flights to reach Manila is long and very tiring. SLC to Seattle is 1:40 hour , Seattle to Tokyo – 10 hours, and then Tokyo to Manila is 4 more hours. We left Salt Lake at 11:00am on Monday and arrived in Manila at 11:30pm on Tuesday night. Of course you lose a lot of hours.
We were in a hotel for the first 5 days and have now moved into an apartment that was vacated by another set of missionaries. We have been looking for a nicer place but after a lot of looking we are just going to settle here until the broker can find something with some pretty specific parameters. The shower took me 3 days and a quart of bleach to cure. The previous missionaries were ill and had left under the assumption that it would be cleaned and it was, by me.
We work out of the Area Presidents Office. The compound is across from the temple and includes the MTC complex, Missionary Recovery Office (sick missionary go there to heal) and temple patron housing
We live in Eastwood city which is basically a very large outdoor mall with large condo towers. Philippinos buy the units, furnish them, and then rent them out as an investment. Outside our building we can find a TGIFriday, IHop, Chili’s, Outback, KFC, McDonalds, and hundreds of other restaurants. The problem for seniors here is gaining weight as it is just too easy to eat out.
We left from Salt Lake at 11am on Monday, October 20, 2014
We arrived at 11:30pm on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 after 15 hours on a jet.
View from our Hotel. The building on the far left is our new home. At least a very small part of it is!
They dry rice on the outside lane of the road. We saw the men out there working it with a rake and bagging it.
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