Wednesday, May 16, 2012

29 April 2000

Wow, what a day.  We had a baptism/branch activity at a place called Marabut, just past Basey on Samar.  it was a beach with beautiful scenery, nice water, cool rock formations, and caves.  We baptised three kids: Carlo Pangelino (Nancy and Manulo's 12 year old son), Gemma Esmale (11 year old girl who's been going to church for a long time), and Marilyn (an 8 year old child of record).  Gemma and Marilyn are really cool.  I have a lot of fun with them.  I had a lot of fun with a lot of little kids today: Marilyn, Jessica, Jasmine (Nancy's three year old daughter), Hannah Panglinawan (our house help's daughter), a Tagalog brother and sister with weird names that I can never remember, and a few other boys whose names I don't know.  We climbed all over the rocks and went in the caves.  It was pretty cool.  Everbody except us missionaries went swimming.  This branch really loves swimming.  We didn't get home until 6:00.

I got a letter from Noah yesterday.  He started writing it March 5, 1999, and he didn't finish it until April 8, 2000.  It was a cool letter.  Made me kind of trunky, though.
Elder MacKenzie with various young members of Tacloban 3rd Branch

Elder MacKenzie at Marabut

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