Driving and Dining

We had to go to Manila again today for a training session on driving and car maintenance.As you can imagine that brought a few groans and chuckles.There is no way anyone can receive training enough to prepare them to drive in this country. Anyway we did and it was ok. Afterwards we went to Pres. Vicencio's place for dinner; he is the 1st councilor in the mission presidency and is a wonderful man.He started out with nothing but has built up a successful paper products import business and has done really well.He has a beautiful home and yard complete with swimming pool. He invited all the senior couples and the Stucki's over for dinner to show us appreciation for our service in his country.He and his wife are very kind and gracious and it was a wonderful meal including T-bone steak and baked salmon.It was really nice; they even had a piano player there playing beautiful Christmas music throughout the evening. It was really 1st class and we had a nice time.