La Carlota District Council Training: 'Rescue The One'

All auxiliary officers and branch presidents of the 8 units under the La Carlota District of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints showed their genuine interest on rescuing those inactive, less active members of their respective branches.


Sister Mary Ann Chua-Balen of Cebu LDS Resource Center representative trained these leaders in a half-day seminar recently at the meetinghouse of La Carlota District.

Conducting a council meeting where those identified members and how they may be rescued was done in workshop, and dramatized by a pipe-pingpong ball race.


Several groups were created. For their first attempts, all of the groups weren't able to bring the ball to its box-destination at the stage.

They tried and tried unti they learned how to do it. Teamwork, proper coordination, careful execution of the race made the contest to be won.


Applying these principles, they believe that they could also win those inactive, less active members back to Church.

They ended up by identifying them one by one from their respective home branches.

Trip to Cebu Philippines LDS Temple

My wife, and our grandson, Toto Bryan were with me when I attended the dedication of Cebu Philippines Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), Lahug Cebu City on June 13, 2010.


Cebu Philippines Temple is the 133rd operating LDS temple around the world. It is built on an 11-acre (4.5 ha) site that it shares with a church meetinghouse, patron house, residences for the temple president and mission president, and a mission office.


LDS Church Prophet, Seer and Revelator, President Thomas S. Monson described: "This is a beautiful temple. It sits as beacon on the hill."


Building a temple is a commandment with a blessing. Throughout history, the Lord has commanded His people to build temples. Temples are literally houses of the Lord. They are holy places of worship where individuals make sacred promises with God.

Regardless of the place or time period, temples are the most sacred place on earth-a place where earth and heaven meet and where we feel close to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.


The plans to build a temple in Cebu City were announced by the LDS Church to local church leaders on 18 April 2006. Ground was broken and the site was dedicated on 14 November 2007 by Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Cebu City Temple is open to the public every Thursday. Our friends are invited to have a tour around the temple. Full Time Missionaries are there to help.

“If you live within relatively close proximity to a temple, your sacrifice could be setting aside the time in your busy lives to visit the temple regularly.” — President Thomas S. Monson

3-Day INSET for Cubay Elementary School

In-Service Training for Cubay Elementary School, Division of La Carlota City led by their School Principal Gil Camporazo was conducted at the school's Learning Resource Center (LRC) on October 25 to 27, 2011.

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Day 1 - The teachers revisited their school's vision and mission. They wanted them to be simplified for easy to recall among the pupils, the parents, the community and even for themselves. SBM best practices were discussed in the afternoon session with the presence of SGC and PTA officers.

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Day 2 - The teachers tackled the topic on diversity of learners, prepared an action plan on how to handle them and every grade leader reported their outputs.

Mr. Gil Camporazo, the school principal shared his thoughts on what a teacher is to his 13 teachers. A teacher is the influential individual in bringing up a learned child. There are variety of teaching strategies for there are also diversity of learners.

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Day 3 - Every teacher made his/her own instructional material and presented its usage, its handiness, durability, and effectiveness in teaching pupils to learn. The school principal, Mr. Gil Camporazo appreciated the teachers from their resourcefulness, ingenuity and productivity in coming up with their visual aids.