December 14, 2005
In the evening we went to dinner with President and Sister Anderson and the Area Medical Adviser and his wife, Dr. and Sister Fuller, who are new to the Philippines and are visiting Cebu to see what the medical environment is like so they can better advise Sister Anderson. We went to the buffet at the Marriott and had a delicious dinner and good conversation. Afterwards, a member of the Church who works as a waiter came up an introduced himself. After a few minutes of talking to everyone, I talked to him privately and asked him to look up AlJun, the young man I met in the lobby at Thanksgiving while I was waiting for the Pollocks to pack. He said he knew him and would talk to him about the Church. I was happy to have that follow-up, since Al Jun seemed very interested when I talked to him, but didn’t want missionaries to come to his home. “His mother wouldn’t like it.”
Then, as we were heading toward then door, a young woman introduced herself, saying she was an inactive member of Cebu Ward 1. She teaches ballroom dancing and works very late on Saturday nights/Sunday mornings so stopped coming to Church. We visited with her for a few minutes and encouraged her to come Sunday afternoon to the later ward. She said she would try, or may just come and visit us in the office. We hope she will.
