Transfer

Last week Peter was transfered to a town called Pototan, still on the island of Panay but north of Iloilo. The mission president closed their area in Oton because of a lack of missionaries which made the members really sad. This was at a farewell party they had for Peter and his companion.

Pototan is inland and so Peter said he is missing the ocean but the scenery there is beautiful as you can see.

2 guests. . .1 welcome the other not so welcome

This month Peter met his new mission president, President Tobias, when he came and visited he and his companion at their apartment. (Can you believe how skinny Peter is!?)
This little tukol though, not so welcome as a guest in the apartment and thank goodness Elder Araojo was able to catch it and send it on it's way OUTSIDE because Peter said they will bite you!!

Prayers ARE answered!!

Well last week we got a surprise e-mail from Peter saying that it was OK for them to e-mail again so we were pretty happy about that. They recently had a Zone Conference on the beach near Oton and so Peter took these fun pictures.
He said this is his new lifeguard stand. Below he is using it to look for "Lost Souls" !!

Bye-bye e-mail :(

Thanks to some very disobedient Elder's (Peter was NOT among them) the mission president has now banned e-mail for the Bacolod Mission!!! So not only will we miss weekly updates, because "snail-mail" takes 2-3 weeks, we will miss the pictures that Peter would attach. So we all need to pray that when the new mission president arrives in July he will reconsider and let them e-mail again. In the meantime enjoy some of the last pictures he sent.

If any of you want to try writing to him using the POUCH, the address is:
Philippines Bacolod Mission
PO Box 30150
Salt Lake City, UT 85130-0150

First Transfer

Well having spent Christmas on an airplane, it seemed appropriate that Peter would spend his 20th Birthday on a boat being transferred to Oton on the island of Panay!!

OK, so it wasn't on the above boat but instead on what he called an "Ocean Jet" as shown below. He said the ride took just a little over an hour and he is very excited to be in a new area.



Above is where Peter lived in Victorias, he says it was called the Mission Mansion. (I can see why) The only thing he told me about his new home is that it's livable---perhaps something like the below picture. . . I don't know!!!

Don't Try This At Home Folks

So before Peter even left for the Philippines he told us that given the chance, he was going to try balut, (for those who don't know this is a fertilized duck egg which is boiled and eaten in the shell, duck and all) why you would even want to, well I don't know and after looking at these pictures I'm pretty sure that I would NEVER want to.


So if your grossed out by looking at Peter eating his filipino "delicacy" then enjoy this picture that he took of a beautiful Philippine sunset!!

Missionary Life

Here are some random pictures of Peter and his life as a missionary in the Philippines. The good news is that they have been teaching the De la cruz family and hope that they will be baptized soon, Peter is just hoping he won't be tranferred before that happens.

This is a picture of Peter's favorite thing to eat----rice and lumpia. So far he has lost 40 pounds!! Thanks to this diet, alot of walking and alot of sweating!!


Transportation is still an adventure. He is shown here in a Jeepney with Tommy, a member missionary and Elder Wade. And then again inside a Tryke.


This is one of Peter's favorite families to visit because you have to cross this log bridge to get there.