first night of open house

Cebu City Temple

Elder Peck sorting out invitation by date in
our apartment.

The new Cebu City Temple at night

Leaders at constrution workers open house.

Area Seventy Presidency Elder Edwards, elder Ko and

Elder Teh; an American, Korean, and Chinese

respectively. Elder and Sister Peck along with

our public affairs staff, and others.

Filipino children of construction workers looking

at a birds nest in the flowers (inside chapel of

Temple grounds). For them, nothing more important

at the moment.

Masked gas station attendant. For some reason

Filipinos wear stuff on their heads and

necks when it is 100 degrees.

Fill 'er up? or this is a stickup?

When we wander out in the jungle, we are

a curiosity. Little Filipinos come from all over

the neighborhood to look at us.

This is one of the famous Jeepneys in the

Philippines. They like to jazz them up.

Honestly, this is typical and

their are thousands of them.

This is their mass transit.

Most of them are 40 years old, no air con. hard

seats, etc.

The really tall guy on your left is Mwwaaa. My fair lady

is on my right. The man in the center is Cardinal Vidas, the

most powerful man in Cebu. He is 77. The other

people are on the LDS public affairs committee.

We intived him to the temple open house.

This guy wasn't holding us up, he was just filling

our gas tank. They are afraid of the sun here and

they cover their head and face when in the sun, even if

it is 100 degrees.

Again, not an uncommon sight. We were following

this Jeepney a couple of days ago. The guys

are hitching a ride. The people inside were packed

like sardines.

This is a picture of Brooklyn's new baby. We have

never seen her so we were happy to get the

picture.

I don't know what this is. It was just laying

beside the road. Maybe it's a goat with no ears.

Mom and I at Chocolate Hills in Bohol.

Dancing the night away.

UGLY DOGS

UGLY DOG CONTEST OF CEBU. VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE.

Beginning of finalists for Cebu' ugliest dogs

Above is OIL CAN HARRY.

DER PINKSTER


HYENA

HEAD AND SHOULDERS

SKAIRDY KAT

SPOT(S)

MONGRELLA

SLIMY

LEPROSY

SPEED HORSE

Sugar cane flower on top when ready to harvest.

miles and miles of green fields, it is beautiful.

The field in the back is already cut.

This is very typical Jeepney driver, or any other Filipino,
wearing standard gear T shirt for headwrap. They
hate the sun to shine on their heads for some reason. They look
like Muslin terrorists

This is a local baptismal font in the back yard

of the little branch in Medellin. They said

tall people have to double over to get fully

immersed.

Little sign posted on a fence around the corner

from where we live. Notice, the penalty for dumping

cats is 500 pesos. That is around $10.00. When I

come home I am going to do the same thing for $50.00

per cat. My price will include a scenic ride to

the Bonneville Salt Flats for each load of cats.

I don't know what to say about this except it

is NIPA fruit. It grows abundantly on palm-like

trees that spring our of wetlands and marshes.

the hulls you see are hard and very tough to open.

I have no idea what the fruit is like inside.

This is the LDS Church production and photo
crew that was sent to cover the lifting of Angel
Moroni onto the new Temple. All the pictures
were taken with this cool remote control helicopter.
I flew up and around the Temple spire and throughout
the Temple area, with a 360 degree
camera mounted on the nose.

This be me and my lady.

We got up close to these little guys. They hang

upside down in trees. I believe they are called Lemirs.

They are sometimes called flying monkeys. They

must be nocturnal because while we were there,

they were motionless.

This is another of those adorable little Tarsis Monkeys.

All they do is cling to their limb and blink.

This little guy is saying "ohhh boyyy", not another tourist.

This is a little homeless family we see almost every

day as we drive to and from work. The dad is

fixing some rice using the road as his table. They

move around the city in a little 4 by 6 trailer with 6 inch,

wheels. He pushes it by hand.

He recenlty found a tarp that he puts

over them to keep them dry.

This is their home. All of them sleep in

this at one time. Quite a pile.

Just another picture of the same family. They spend

100 % of their time outdoors.

This is the scene of a fatal traffic accident, one week

after the accident. A bus hit this little "Trisikad".

Notice the little rock memorial next to the road.

It has a little stick propped upright as a memorial.

No one bothered to remove the Trisikad.

The next two pictures are a site where a large bldg.

had been removed. After all the demolition people

cleaned up and left, the scavengers moved in. They were all over

the site like flies. everyone from two years old to

people in their 70's and 80's. They even dug holes

and tunnels to get metal, pipes, or any re-recyclable. This is

in the center of town. Each person brought a bag to carry

their booty home.

We hired this outrigger boat to take us to an Island.
This little girl was part of the crew. She is 13 and
a hard worker. She helped people on and off
the boat via a portable plank. She and two other
kids would also hold a long bamboo pole on their shoulders
and passengers would steady themselves with it.
She and her friends would dive in the water before
and after launch, having the time of their lives.
She invited us to come to her house after the trip.
While we were walking down an alley to her house,
she took off running. She could not wait to get to
a cigarette vendor, where she bought one cigarette
and immediately lit it up. We were shocked.
She promised me she would not smoke another
cigarette (?) She was an absolute cutie. that's
Gregory Peck on her left.

This is Gregory Peck and his lovely bride on our
way to a little Island.

These are two sister missionaries that helped

us take Christmas presents to a poor family of ten

that live in the jungle in a makeshift hut. The

lady and her children were home, but not the husband.

Apparently, the they had a fight and the husband

hit his wife in the chest and took off for the

rest of the day. The missionaries chose to stay with

her and the children, in spite of the fact they had

many, many miles to travel to get back to their

apartment.

This is Maxine emerging from the "jungle" where

the little family above lives.

This is our meeting house (branch) in San Remegio. We attend

church here once a month. We went to their Christmas

party. See below.

These two guys brought a pig and slaughtered

it on the premises. They cleaned it and bled

it out in the tiny back yard of the church. They also

put it on a large spit and hand turned it over a pit

of hot coals they prepared. It took over three hours.

They took turns turning the spit on their

haunches. They were soaking wet.

This little pig did not make it to market, nor did

he stay home or have roast beef. He had none. We

had this little pig and as far

as we could tell, no one cried wee wee wee,

all the way home.

This is the pig before being slid onto the long,

not very clean, metal spit. At this point, he

seems relatively serene. By the way, roast pig

is a specialty of the Province of Cebu. It is called Lechon.

Thousands of them are cooked this way every day,

as it is their favorite main course. We don't like it.

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