Well we have here just over a week at this point we. We are still trying to get used to the weather its still hot but we have been told it should be cooling off w the rainy season coming.What follows is my
I will get to the reason Im writing this silly thing today, I went yesterday w Lloyd (Rae's grandpa) to visit a lady from the church that is in prison. I guess a little background here from what we have been told she should not be in prison but its almost impossiable to get out once you are in jail in the Phillipines (from what weve been told) the story goes as such she was working w this man to dig up gold that was hidden around the differnt islands of the Phillipines by the Japanesase during WWII (this is all legal) they found a rather large amount of gold that was taken along w the earth that it was encased in to this factory type place to seperate the gold from the dirt after that was finished they were left w like 5.5 million pesos which with the last exchange rate I heard is about $132,000 or so which is a pretty good chunk of change, as the story goes the man she was working w did not want to declare the fidnings to the government so he hired 2 armed gurads to ride in his care and protect the money one of the guards decided he wanted the money so he killed the other people there, this lady from the church was not there when this all happened and from what has been stated by her legal counsel there doesnt appear to be any evidence to tye her to the crime. So anyway we went up to visit cause she had a hearing ysterday, so we left early in the morning like before 0600 it was about a 2 hr drive so we got to the little town at about 0800 stopped & had breakfast a Mcdoldalds (so for those of you worring if we had food we can always get a Big Mac) then we procceded to go to the courthouse. We got over there it was different (all i got to see was the outside of the building cause they only let 1 persons/prisoner into the courtroom) the outside of the building was sort of what i expected it was one story tall strutcure that was had alot of spanish influnce in the construction but the area around it was strange cause back home the courtouses have always had paved parking lots, there were quite a few people milling around when we arrived at 0830 after breakfast we went over and looked at the scheudal on the builten board on the courthouse this piece of paper gave the court scheudal but it wasnt a hard schedule all it said was this list of people vs this list of people w a number beside them to notate the order but all of them started at 0830 so we didnt know if it would be the first case & we would be done in 20 min or if we would have to wait all day (we were the fifth case) finaly at about 0915 the first van pulled up w some prisoners in it they got out in there jeans and orange shirts which was also funny cause i feel in the states all the prisoners have the some prsion garb not so here thye got out handcuffed in pairs & went inside we waited a bit more then another van pulled up this was the one we was waiting on so i sat down and in some chairs over by the public defenders office and waited until about 10-1015 or so. when we heard people coming out so we went & stood over to see what was going on, as we stood over they more prisoners came out the courthouse it was weird cause they were no longer handcuffed togethr and just walked up to there families & would start tlking to them & were handed things like food & clothes by people so that was a bit unnerving but to be fair the prison guards were all stadning there finnaly the lady from church came out & we went over & talked to her for a bit just about how she was doing, she seemed to be taking it pretty well & us being there she said was encouraging she then said something intereting one of the women shes in prison w had a baby and had the kid in the cell w her & they were looking for someone to care for baby girl of course Lloyd said that me & Rae didnt have kids... when Rae found out she werent to happy. that was the exciting adventure yesterday we got back home at about 1230
we went to the wednesdy prayer meeting and had a good time i was talking w a couple of the guys there they & a lady from church was trying to teach us some of the language (i may be a lost cause there) oh just in case anyone is wondering traffic in Manila sucks on our way back from church last night at 1930 it took us just over hr we got back at 2034 to travel 11km or 6.8 miles
im still supposed to be teaching sunday school here in a couple weeks its a very intereting series that is being used its adapted from a something a misinary w New Tribes put out called firm foundations so the 1st subject i get to teach on will be the the tabernacle.
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