D-Day in Manila

Received our Drivers Licenses!Elder B. counting his pesos - they'll be needed.

Here we go...

Building #1 - hand over passports, CA licenses and

pesos

Collect piece of paper

Climb 3 flights of stairs

Hand over more pesos, get fingerprinted and

provide urine sample.

Really.

Collect more paper and deliver to third office

with more pesos

This time read eye chart

Get weighed and measured

And have blood pressure checked.

Really.

Jump back in car and travel to Government Building.

Looks like any DMV in the U.S. except
This one has a chapel at the far right end.
See it?
We should have these in California.
OK, if you're to believe the picture, this next part is hard.

Nope, not taking a test.

Filling out papers - name, address, etc.

Get picture taken, sign something

More pesos

Picture taken one more time.

???????

Walk out with license good until 2014.

Proud Elder Bell

Couldn't have done it without our guide, Clem.

Booklet with Rules of the Road?

Nope.

Written test?

Nope.

Driving test?

Nope.

But that's OK because there are only

4 Rules of the Road

in the Philippines

1. Flow

2. Pick

3. Big

4. No-see chicken

These were given to us by Elder Benson Misalucha

Area Seventy

His explanation:

Flow means just go with the flow.

There may be 4 lanes drawn on the road, but if 6 cars fit,

Go with the flow.

Pick is some kind of basketball term that Elder B. understands -

it was explained to me this way: fill in the blanks.

If there's an opening, fill it ... or someone else will.

Big is obvious.

The biggest vehicle wins...always.

And no-see chicken - first guy to blink loses.