Tondo

Not much to say about p-day yesterday but today we went with the Forinashes to Tondo, Santa Cruz and San Juan to check apartments. These areas are all in downtown Manila. Bit of an eye-opener to see what life is like in the inner city.We thought it was tough out where we live! One of the apartments has to go; it's just not up to standard so we encouraged them to look for a new place. The traffic in the city is crazy! We left at 5:30 this morning and only got to 3 apartments and looked at 1 new one in Pasay and didn't get home til 4:00 this afternoon. We would have done more but Sister Forinash was sick and had had enough. This evening we went to Eric and Barbie's. They are really getting excited about getting baptized but tonight they were mostly excited about getting married and wanted to make plans for that. It is so fun to see the light of the gospel start to shine in peoples eyes as they feel the hope and joy the gospel brings. Quite the contrast to come from the hopelessness of the inner city and then see how the gospel of Jesus Christ makes a difference in people's lives and gives them hope! We also went to a FHE tonight with a family that we've been doing that with every Tuesday for a few weeks, Last week we didn't go because the elders challenged them to do it on their own and they actually did! The mother is a widow and has to work everyday except Tuesdays. Tonight the older brother actually joined us for the first time!