We arrived a week ago today. We have a nice apartment and have been busy getting all the things we need to make it a home. It is interesting how many clerks they have in the stores. It seems like they have as many clerks as customers. One day we had three clerks carry our packages out to our ride. We met with some of the missionaries on Monday night for FHE. They had a karaoke night. They made Grant sing not knowing he could sing and he blew them away with Barry Mandalow's "I Can't Smile Without You". Things have been frustrating for Grant. Nothing has really been done at the Cranial Facial Clinic to get the Oral Surgery Suite ready. He is also still waiting for his license. I have to calm him down every once in a while. We are finding it is a much slower pace here in the Philippines. Good for me but not so good for Grant. There is an LDS ex-pat group (americans living out of the country). They get together on Tuesdays and either study conference talk go to the temple or the bazaar. Next week we go to the bazaar. You should have seen the fancy high rise apartment we went to. This gal's husband works for our government as a drug chaser. Now I know where our tax dollars are going. I took a picture of the view out their window of a beautiful golf course. We have not seen any flooded areas but our friend Manny (in the picture with Grant) is a bishop here. His home was flooded so fast with no warning. He put his wife and four children in a bath tub they had given to their neighbor and it was still in the yard. He put the plug in and pushed them through chest high flood water for over an hour. They are back in their house but really lost everything. We were going to go help his ward with the final clean up of their chapel on saturday but it got cancelled because we are expecting typhoon Santi. That will be bad for all they millions of people partying in the cemeteries.
