Teaching FHE & Church up in the Hills

February 17

We've got to teach FHE Monday night at the Mission Home to 22 Zone Leaders  and think I'll serve 7 layer bars and some Rice Crispy Treats; most are Filipinos so maybe it will be a new thing for them to eat.  They ask the Sr. Missionaries to periodically teach a FHE to the Elders when they are "in house"; some have never experienced a FHE; thought we start off with "Popcorn on the Apricot Tree" - that should be different for the Filipino missionarys.
(In reference to clothes Tiff sent…) Your "cast off clothes" are boo tea full!  I'm sure I'll find a good home for them.   We will be visiting 2 branches every month up in the hills; we visited one last week for the first time; pretty humble people.  I'm sure you saw even more humble circumstances than that, though (to Tiff). At least we had a building to meet in with separate rooms for Primary, P'hood, and YW/YM.  We were told that it is pretty typical to be asked to speak and/or bear your testimony when you go, and sure enough, that's what happened.  Daddy spoke and I bore my testimony.  The Assistants to the President went with us and will continue to do so for a few weeks to guide us and show u s the way til we can find our own way; they were also asked to speak.  I wonder what they had planned to do if we didn't show up.  In our Mabolo Ward where we go when we aren't traveling, the bishopric  doesn't ask people to speak.  They DECIDE who is to speak, pass out to them in RS, or whatever class they will be in, a half sheet of paper with the person's name who is to speak, the topic they will speak on and when they will speak.  When the RS door opens just a crack and the Bishopric member slides in the paper to the RS Pres. to pass it on, everyone cringes and laughs at the same time.  But no one quibbles....they show up and do a good job.