Thursday, May 24, 2012

22 March 1999

I turned 21 on Saturday.  That was pretty cool.  I told the Sanico family, they told Sister Rom and Sister Embalude, and the word spread like wildfire from there.  I showed up at the church for missionary correlation meeting (MCM), and everybody started singing happy birthday.  We joined a family home evening later that night, and everyone there sang happy birthday again.  When we were back at the apartment, I stuck 21 candles into a pot of rice and blew them out.  Then we ate chocolate and ube ice cream.  The Sanico family gave us crabs.
Not sure why the camera's date stamp says March 21.  Did I celebrate a day late?  Could have happened.
21 felt so old at the time, but holy cow, I was so young!  That's Elder Kenney on the left.  The purple ice cream is ube.

2 comments:

  1. Could the time stamp have something to do with the international date line?

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  2. I thought that at first, but wouldn't that mean it would be a day behind?

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