Celebrating New Years in the Beautiful Philippines

New Years Eve in the Philippines

For New years eve we had 2 meal appointments! In the Philippines people  celebrate

 new years more than Christmas. We had to be in early because

 the Philippino fireworks are kind of dangerous. We made a good dinner,

 and our bishop brought us a lot of

food and a cake! The Philippino tradition here is to just light off as

many fireworks and create as much noise as they can! haha.. All night it

sounded like there was a war going on outside. At 12:00 it was so loud

none of us could sleep. we watched the fireworks a little bit out on

our balcony. I took a video and I will try to send it to you.

 

Beautiful Caaoagan

This week we also went out to our farthest area for the first time,

Caaoagan, it is right next to the sea and it is very pretty. The town

looks like a small beach town somewhere in San Diego. I will send

some pictures. We taught some really cool families out there,

they seem interested.    While we were in Pila, one of our nicer areas, a big

British guy on a little scooter drove up to us! We talked to him for

a little bit and he invited us to his house for "a small lunch and a

nice little chat" haha! I loved his accent and it was pretty funny!

haha we are going over to his house this wednesday! I CAN"T WAIT!

I am going to teach a BRITISH man while in the Philippines! ! It was also funny

because E. Payne and I had a  hard time talking to him because

we were so used to having small talk in Tagalog. we would say

something like, "where do you live, what time, what day/hou?". in Tagalog

then remember that he didn't speak Tagalog and have to translate it back.