Sunday, June 7, 2009

For all you Sister Hanks and Spider fans...


Yikes! She says they get bigger too.

I apologize for the long period without an update. She has an account on photobucket, but I don't think she gave me the password to it, so as soon as I get that, I'll put some of those photos here too.

She is in her 2nd area, at the base of a possibly active volcano. It's nice and cool for her right now, which she is grateful for, because April and May are the summer months. The people are super nice. The doctors are not so good. There is a common belief in pasma .

She has enjoyed most of the food, but has tried some interesting things. Balot is a hard boiled egg with an embryonic duck inside. Isaw is barbequed chicken skin.

Here are some fun words in Tagalog:

CR - bathroom (it stands for comfort room)
pananampalafaya - faith
Dijos - God
bahay - house
moolan - rain
bulaclac - flower
isda - fish
tubig - water
asin - salt

Why couldn't the ocean get into heaven? Because it was tu-big a-sin!

As soon as I have access to her photobucket account, I will put up pictures and video clips.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Monday, November 10, 2008

1st month in the MTC

Missionaries taking a Sunday temple walk


Whitney has been quite busy as her first month as a missionary. She says a week feels like a day and a day feels like a week.

The place where she crashes after a hard days work

She loves her companions. Sister Dean is from Forrest Grove, Oregon, and Sister Taviliili is from Brisbane, Australia.

Sister Taviliili (aka Sister T) blowing up a balloon


Sister Dean and parts of her birthday package



Sister Vaigalu, Sister Dean, Sister Hanks, Sister T

Sister Mattson, Sister T, Sister Dean, Sister Hanks, Sister Miller, Sister Perry


She may be working super hard, but that doesn't stop her from having fun. Here is what she gets from hiding under a bed trying to scare Sister Dean:



If you want to send her a letter, her MTC address is:

MTC Mailbox #127
PHI-SAN 1201
2005 N. 900 E.
Provo, UT 84604-1793