I’m sitting in Sacrament Meeting in the Las Pinas 2nd Ward. There is a
\ndeluge going on outside — it has been raining hard for the past 45
\nminutes. A very good time to be inside! A young man is talking, but I don’t
\nunderstand him. He probably isn’t speaking in English and the noise of the
\nrain is drowning him out anyway. I was picked up at 1:00 pm and it took
\nfive minutes to get here. There was almost no traffic! Very unusual. There
\nare about 125 people here for Church. We have been singing acapella, but a
\nvery young girl is now sitting at the piano so we may have accompaniment
\nfor the intermediate hymn, “The World Has Need Of Willing Men”, otherwise
\nknown as the “butcher song”.<\/p>\n
Yesterday was a very lazy \/ laid back day. I eventually got out of bed
\naround 11. I looked out the window to see below me a large group of people
\nin street clothes holding towels and holding hands. Then they all clapped
\nand went 4 at a time into the pool and baptized each other. There seemed to
\nbe no rhyme or reason. I watched for about ten minutes. Some people got
\nbaptized a couple of times. A couple of people only did baptizing. This was
\nby immersion, so it must have been one of the local charismatic churches.<\/p>\n
Later that afternoon I took a walk and some pictures, which I’ve put in the
\npicture album.<\/p>\n
I’m feeling better, but still have some ways to go. Another night’s sleep
\nlike last night would be very good. It’s now raining so hard I can’t hear
\nthe speaker at all. They’ve had to turn down the amplifier a bit because
\nthere was too much feedback. We have a new speaker. She’s reading
\nscriptures in English and talking about them in Tagalog.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow is our 42nd wedding anniversary. It certainly hasn’t been long
\nenough. I’ll take several more eternities….
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I’m sitting in Sacrament Meeting in the Las Pinas 2nd Ward. There is a deluge going on outside — it has been raining hard for the past 45 minutes. A very good time to be inside! A young man is talking, but I don’t understand him. He probably isn’t speaking in English and the noise … Continue reading Sacrament Meeting<\/span>