Native masks and dancing

President and Sister Rahlf with their game faces!

 Native dancing.

Typical things to see.

 Beautiful flowers.

Where are we?  This doesn't look like Vegas!

Drying of rice while it is still on the stalks.  

Usually we see the rice being dried after it has been removed from the stalk.

 Colorful rooster.  There are chickens everywhere.

What to expect while driving in the Philippines

 A common mode of transportation:  the Jeepney.

How is this for a narrow road?

Ye Elders of Israel!

From left to Right: 

President Rahlf, Elder Honeycutt, Elder Mills, Elder Shorter, and Elder Campbell.

Grandpa bones

Grandpa's bones!  The tradition is to keep an ancestor's bones wrapped in a blanket.  The bones are brought out on special occasions.

Ancestral hut and rice fields

An ancestral hut.  Families actually lived in such dwellings.  They are built on stilts to ward off the creepy, crawly things.  There is a block on top of each stilt that prevents rats from entering.  Food was cooked over a fire underneath the hut.  This is Sister Campbell with me.

 The terraced rice fields of Banaue.  These were created by hand labor and are still maintained by hand.  Each terrace is carefully built in layers.

Elder and Sister Mills

Elder and Sister Mills (the couple that has been training us), Brother Melendez who was baptized March 8.  He will baptize his wife and daughter, Monica, next Saturday.  He has a great testimony all ready.  The spirit was really strong at his baptism.