So- this week consisted of an earthquake, bagio (huge storm), and the nearly entire town of Oton waist deep in water. Sounds like the end of the world, doesn't it? In all honesty, it wasn't that bad. The earthquake lasted about 10 seconds and was just strong enough that the clothes in our closet sung back and forth a little, if my companion hadn't pointed it out to me, I probably wouldn't have noticed. The storm was pretty intense, but the worst of it occurred Friday night after we got home, so we were perfectly safe- and the area we live in didn't flood.
The flooding in the rest of the town was slightly more impactful. We planned on going out that morning, but the flooding between us and the highway was to high for us to pass, so we went back home and ate lunch and studied a little more with the plan to head out in the afternoon and hope the flood had gone down. The flood was still there, but low enough that we could get on a trisikad and ride across without getting wet. After getting to the main road, we started with our Plan A for the day. (Side note: as we listened to the rain the night before, we made a plan A, and then a plan B and C in case of flooding) It took us about 2 minutes to realize we couldn't get to plan A because of the floods, so we headed to plan B, and then plan C... then we looked at our watches and realized only 30 minutes had passed since we left the house. This resulted in the creation of plan D, finding somewhere in the town that wasn't flooded and finding new investigators there. It was really fun.
Here are some fun pictures from the past view weeks, most of them are from the hike that I mentioned in my email last week. I really love the Philippines, even if the rain never stops (it's sunny again today though, lets see how long it lasts!)
Love you all! Hope you enjoy the pictures!
Palangga Ko Kamo!
A flower that one of our members gave me- she normally sells them for 50 Pesos a piece (to give you an idea of how much that's worth, a missionaries daily allotment for food is 120)
The mountain we climbed- It's the one in the distance covered by the clouds.
An Awesome view on our way up the mountain.
The Rice Terraces, isn't this a gorgeous view, so worth the hike to get there. Though we had another hour till we reached our destination.
Our Destination!
Our district and Family we visited!
The view would be gorgeous if it weren't for the fog and rain.
Ini si Dako Gid (this is Really Big) This praying mantis that we found outside of OUR house was longer than my hand... really big!
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