This was a Letter we received from Chance the other day. I am going to type it out EXACTLY like it was written, just because you can read Chance's personality SO well
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Dear Family
Hi I just had a little time to write so
I thought I would send a letter.
WOW I have so much to say.
Serious, I could write 4 ever and not
say everything I want 2 say.
So it is very beautiful here. There are
many coconut trees and banana trees and
lots of other fruits that I don't know the
names of. But it is all very good.
It's great because there are SO MANY ORGANIC foods here!!
Like when we want bread, we go to the bakery. When we want rice,
we go find the farmer selling rice.
So that's how we shop.
There are not really many stores, just people selling whatever
they make out of their houses. Its very cool.
There are some regular stores in the mall.
The malls are HUGE like bigger than the Layton Hill Mall.
They have escalators, elevators, lots of people and stores.
And fast food.
McDonald's is GREAT and I like Chow King, but like
most of the other Philippine fast food is awful, like
if you go to Pizza Hut they give you bread with Easy Cheese on it.
Ya, like the kind they use on Ritz Crackers. Then they
put ketchup and toppings. Uggggg SO GROSS
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OK So Things I Miss.
MILK - There is NO milk here. Well there is but
it's very expensive because it is
imported from New Zealand
DAIRY - OK so No milk, yep you guessed it NO Dairy.
So no cheese, No yogurt and No Butter.
(but I got some butter, it was expensive like I really wanted it for cooking)
CANDY - So far I have found Kit Kat's Oreos and Chips Ahoy
(like the cookies) and that's it. Like I really want
like some M&M's and Reese's and Star Bursts.
Yeah, I just miss candy.
BEEF - OK so beef is really hard to find and its expensive
We eat Pork and Chicken
MUSTARD - Ya, NO mustard. And I miss it because they have
Hot dogs, well they are chicken dogs or pork
but not having mustard on it is sad.
PEPPER - Ya, they have lots of salt, but it is hard
to find pepper and pepper is good on food, so
that's sad.
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OH SO GOOD THINGS
SODA - They have all Coke products but
NO diet Soda!!!
And the Soda they have has sugar NOT High fructose corn syrup!
FRUIT
VEGGIES
And ya, most of the food is good, but
I do miss Dairy the most cuz think about it, NO cheese on pasta
nothing that has milk as a ingredient.
Oh, P.S. the bread is made with coconut milk
OK SO NEXT
AMERICANS
OK, so there are NO Americans here. I have not
seen any except other missionaries. So everyone freaks
out when they see Americans. Like kids come say "Hi".
People ask me how rich I am. Sometimes I will turn around
and like 10 kids will be following me. Ha Ha its pretty funny.
So ya, people want to know if I know different American Actors
and singers and Famous people. Pretty funny.
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OK so you are Probably wondering how the most tourist ed Island in
the Philippines doesn't have Americans on it. OK I'll explain.
So the very North part of the Island is a Huge resort that
has golf and like just tons of tourist stuff. Like it's HUGE.
So that's where all the tourist go.
But all the roads are paved here. And most people
speak English quite well.
Like Church is in English and TV, and Radio. But most People
are fluent in Ilongo. Which is not Tagalog by the way.
So ya, that has been hard because, like it's hard to
forget Tagalog and learn Ilongo
Like all the Missionaries here say they have forgotten
the Tagalog they learned at the MTC.
SO WEATHER
Umm it rains every day like 5 times. The rain last 4 like 20
minutes. When it rains it's crazy like pouring down rain.
OK so something funny. All the Philippines think that if you get
wet you will get sick. So when it rains like everyone
hides Ha Ha. And like if you get wet people freak and say you should
go get medicine. So yeah, that's great.
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OK SO TRAVEL
Ummm ya we ride Jeepneys and Tricycles
Ya people ride on the sides and on the roofs and all over.
It's pretty funny.
So IDK what else to write. Like if I get into anything
else, Ill have to write like 5 more pages, so I wont.
I love you
I miss you
I'll try to write again soon.
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