So it’s already the end of the first month! It’s been a great time and looking back I know we’ve gotten a lot done:
- We’ve been involved in 4 prayer meetings and Sunday services which has included leading prayer, leading worship, sharing testimonies, performing a drama and speaking.
- We’ve helped out with kids and youth work on Saturdays in a number of locations around the locality, as well as kids work on Sundays and the event we ran.
- We’ve demolished a large hut, using it to extend another hut as well as help level the nearby road with the rubble and replant some of the foliage from around it.
- We’ve levelled out the flooring on two separate huts, clearing the dirt in one end of the hut and shifting it to the other end to level that side out.
- We’ve cut a path through trees on the hillside in the pouring rain and so not only have we worked in heat that has meant I’ve sweat more here than I have before (probably combined :-P) but we’ve also been caught in typhoon weather as well.
On Friday we were able to close the month by having a day out with the family we’ve been staying with this month and we got to go snorkelling in a nearby area. Views were fantastic – I thoroughly recommend Puerto Galera as a holiday destination – although I managed to sustain another injury, this time on my hand. As I finished a dive down to the coral on the sea floor, swimming amongst the multi-coloured fish (it can be a hard life :-P), I surfaced and went to grab the back of the boat that was giving Pete and I the tour, but missed it and ran my palm down the sharp edge of the rudder. Woops. Oh well, it’ll heal. We followed that up by treating them to an Italian lunch.
We’ve travelled back to Manila today (I made a random Danish friend on the boat) and are back where we started the month before we travel on to the next place on Tuesday. We’ll be incommunicado for that month but I’ll post once we’ve moved on from there and update you about how the month went afterwards. Please continue to pray for us and leave us supportive messages on here that we can find out when we get back online 🙂 Here's me with a kitten in one of the villages we went to on Saturdays.
A silly note to end on – I think I would seriously consider moving permanently to the Philippines, if for no other reason than that amongst the locals I am very tall 😀 (also, I bought a blow dart gun, just because)
