Elder & Sister Ferney: We Made it!

Hey everyone yes we are doing wonderful. We have been disconnected for the last couple of days. We are at the mission office today where we have WiFi, I even drive drove the car here to the office today. 😁😱. Mom is do great 👍, we are just trying get everything set up in apartment. If you look on the left of the Temple you will see some high rise buildings that is were we live, there is also a picture looking out of our apartment window. There is a shopping center all around us, this what they call little Manhattan, this is different than what we thought, but it is going to be great once we are all set up. It is taking us a little long to get WiFi connected in our apartment, the saying over here is “ everything is more fun in the Philippines” meaning don’t get in a hurry 🤔.

We love you all and hope all is well at home.

We will be here all day so you can respond and we will get it.

PS it is warm and humid 84% humidity and 85 degrees!!!😰

We spent our first day in the office and we are both confused, but we will learn fast.

Dad

The day of departure, we noticed that the other couple (the Seymours)we were flying out with had a different flight time. All morning Elder Ferney questioned if there was a mistake & decided to stop ignoring the feeling & make a call to the travel office. Sure enough, it was a mistake & we had just enough time to run to the Church Office Building & switch envelopes. We left SL on Jan. 8th & arrived on Jan. 10th. There were 300 passengers on the plane & every seat was filled. It took 1 hour to fly to Los Angeles where we had a four hour over-lay. During this time we found out that our Philippine tickets needed to be re-issued. That took about an hour. When we got to the gate, we found 9 young missionaries that were going with us on the same flight. However, they didn’t know they were supposed to get their flight tickets re-issued. So Elder Ferney took them all & showed them what to do. I shutter to think what would have happened if they had failed to get the proper tickets!! After an extra 2 hours on the tarmac, at mid-night we took off & flew 15 1/2 hours to Manila. The Seymour’s said they would have never been able to figure out the locations at the airports if Elder Ferney hadn’t of been there to help them. I’m pretty sure that is true. They were very inexperienced. They will be serving in Baguio.

Day 1 Sister Lola, the 79 year old mother of President Koster me us & accompanied us to the Mission Home. We were pleasantly surprised to see how lovely it was! It also happened to be the same day as transfers which made things a little Chaotic for Sister Koster. She was on crutches and had prepared a large luncheon fo all the new missionaries and several Senior couples. She suddenly decided that hired help could take care of feeding the young missionaries that needed training and the rest of us would go out to eat.We were able to see the MTC and the Temple on the way.

The Manila Temple is unfortunately closed for the next 4 months.

Mom