The Best We Can Do

Elder and I have had an ongoing wish since being in the Philippines.  We have wanted to weather through a least one good typhoon, or baguio as they call them here.  But we always seem to dodge the bullet.  We were on alert for one yesterday, but the baguio turned south.  All we got was a breezy day mixed with on-again-off-again rain. The rescue-from-the-flooding boats had been put in position by the Capitol building and everything.  Chop suey day!

So I guess the best thing to do is report on a previous wimpy typhoon that passed by to the north of us about a month ago.  It was a signal two storm, which isn't very impressive.  But that's the best we can come up with. Elder and I even ventured out into the storm. I thought I had piano lessons in Bacarra.  So we braved the storm. Before I could even get the gate outside our apartment unlocked, my skirt was dripping wet. My umbrella gave minimal protection, especially after the wind turned it inside out.

Out on the road, the streets were deserted.  It was sad to see the rice plants all flattened in the fields. (I know the next picture has nothing to do with a baguio, but I have to somehow get my scenic pictures onto our blog.)



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I took this picture from a meetinghouse classroom window.  It's normal, right?
Rice field smack-dab next to a meetinghouse.

 

It shouldn't have surprised me when upon arrival at the Bacarra meetinghouse we  discovered that there were no piano lessons to be given.  Smart people know when to stay out of a storm.

During the baguio, the young missionaries were grounded.  President Barrientos had previously heard about two missionaries in Manila who were electricuted while wading through flood waters of a baguio.  Since then he has been very cautious with his missionaries.  So the eight sister missionaries in our apartment complex had some extra time on their hands to socialize with the Eddingtons.  It cracked me up when Sister Bacalla showed up on our doorstep wearing her pink fuzzy pajamas.  But it was ok, since she had on her missionary badge, right? :)




Cute next-door-neighbor missionaries: Sister Hansen and Sister Bacalla


 Elder Eddington took these videos.  Enjoy! (Can someone tell me why the video is out of control?)

Pray for a real baguio in the next six weeks.