The Taoist Temple in Cebu is a Chinese place of prayer. There is a sign where you go into the "temple" that tells you how to know the answer to your prayer. It says you should throw these little blocks on the ground and how they land tells you what your answer is. I'm thankful that I know about the Holy Ghost and how to pray to Heavenly Father and get answers. Some people have some very different ideas, don't they? When the missionaries teach people how to pray, it changes their life. When you open this blog, you might want to go to the bottom and read about the last picture first. It might be easier for you to understand. I love you so much, Grandma

Elder and Sister Burton are from Salt Lake City. Their children wanted them to serve a mission and are helping pay for them to be here. They are both artists, and Brother Burton has been making little model Filipino houses when he has some spare time on Preparation Day. He gave one of these houses to us and we will bring it home with us. Aren't they cool looking? Brother Burton plays the piano, and he is using the keyboard in this picture to teach people how to play. Not very many people here know how to play the music for singing in Church. I am glad some of you are learning how to play so when you go on your mission you will be able to play songs for church. Some branches sing without a piano and it's harder that way.

Elder and Sister Outcalt are grandparents too. They came to the Cebu Mission in June. Bryce and Spencer, Sister Outcalt is the aunt of someone in your ward, Matt Holyoak. This picture is taken at the place where a new church house will soon be built in Tubigon. We really like the Outcalts. They are excited to be missionaries here. They are helping the new members of the church learn how to be leaders. They are helping young men prepare to serve missions. They are such good helpers for Heavenly Father.

Elder Outcalt has lots of hobbies. One is making wooden toys. The easiest wood to find here is bamboo. He made these cars out of bamboo. He is going to teach the Young Men how to make cars and then they will take them as gifts for an orphanage. That's where kids live who don't have any parents. I think they will like having these toys, don't you?

Here is Grandpa with the missionaries from the Calape Zone. We are at Sagbayan Peak. The missionaries next to Grandpa are Elder Hodges and Elder Latimer. They were AP's when this picture was taken. Elder Hodges went home a little while after this picture was taken. He lives in Washiongton. Once a week missionaries have "P-Day." That's short for Preparation Day. That's when they can write letters to their families, clean their apartments, shine their shoes, and stuff like that. But once in awhile they can have an outing to see things that are close to where they live. We were happy that they invited us to spend part of their Pday with them. This is a small zone with only 8 misisonaries. One zone has 28 missionaries.

When we were in Negros early in August we went up into the mountains to see a power plant. That's a place where they are using steam from under the ground to make electricity so people can have lights in their houses. In this picture I am with Sister Wolf (on the left of the picture), Sister Burton, and Brother Wolf. Over by Brother Wolf is Elder Hankins. He is an "AP" or Assistant to the President. The AP's travel with us almost everywhere we go, and they do a lot of teaching to help other missionaries learn how to work. Sister Burton and her husband are full time missionaries. Brother and Sister Wolf are very good friends, and Brother Wolf is a counselor to Grandpa. I want you all to know that I love being a missionary! I love every single missionary who is in our mission. If they get sick it is my job to help them get better. It is so fun to learn about this country. I know that every person here is a son or daughter of God, and that he loves every one of His children. That's why missionaries are so important. They help people learn about Heavenly Father and what they need to to so they can live with Him again.

In this picture we are in front of the mission office. The big banner was designed by your Aunt Tania. On the left of the sign is a round design that is our mission logo. It says "Success Through Obedience". These missionaries are the new "batch" that came to us on August 9. The Elders are all Filipino, but Sister Lilo is from Tonga. She was in the Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Provo, Utah for two months to learn how to speak Cebuano before she came. The Filipino missionaries go to the MTC in Manila and they don't learn any language there. In the Philippines the national language is Tagalog but almost every province has a different dialect. Filipinos learn some English in school too. So when they come to us some of them already know three languages!