Cold Showers and Ants

Apartment:
2 floors
Not cleaned by previous missionaries
Starting to shape up
Lots of ants and other bugs...
Move has been all right. Schedule is a little hectic. We are doing what is called a fresh start in the area, meaning that both of us in the companionship have never been here before.
The previous missionaries didn't leave a lot to work with either.
WHICH IS GREAT. Because you never find your way as well as when you get lost.
Just about every ingredient I'm used to using in my food is expensive here....
Lemons, rare
Tomatoes, rare
Olive oil, rare
Cheese, rare
...
So yeah, I'll just have to figure out my budget, and then we'll see about cooking. 
Until then: RICE!
And stop making me hungry! I miss Spanish food.
Haven't gotten a package yet... hopefully it gets to the mission home and they send it to me.
Hopefully.
By the way, thank you, thank you, thank you for what you send me!


Not a ton of time to email, but I'll try to cover everything.

My companion?
Elder McQuarrie. Here from Provo Utah, he's already been accepted to BYU. He's been in the field for 1 year and 3 months, I believe. He speaks like a native, he's all about obedience, and he doesn't get frightened too easily by the mountainous task placed before him. Likes to joke the way Filipinos do, but relatively less emotional when it comes to some things. That being said, it does come out when he bears his testimony. Good stuff.

Apartment?
For the Philippines, it's nice. 2 floors, lots of space. The previous missionaries, however, left us with a lot of disorganization, as well as very little area information. It is clean, but that doesn't mean that we don't get bugs...
Cold water showers, one flushing toilet... but I'll get used to it.
We put everything in the fridge. That's the only place the ants don't go.
Hopefully we won't have a cockroach infestation.

Mission field?
We are in Pamplona, las Pinas city (pinas has an enye). Actually relatively middle class. Not as poor as other areas, but still.
It's suburbs, so I get to see green
Lots of crazy traffic...

And that's that.
I'm basically out of time.
I'm working on a poem right now, will send it next week
Thank you so much for keeping in contact.
I will try to act with wisdom.
And I will always seek the spirit.
And hopefully, if I serve with obedience, faith, and love,
I will have no regrets.

From,
Elder Streeter

P.S. Really sorry, but I can't visit that webpage you made. You are welcome to keep using it, and I receive everything about it, but I can't do anything to it.

Let Nikolai know I love him. So much.

And also, I have forgotten for a whole month now, to tell Mama that there is a Facebook page. I believe it is: Philippines Manila Mission Moms. 

Talk again next week.