Kadayawan Festival Dancing

The first week of school also fell during a major festival week--Kadayawan Festival. Saturday I biked to the city hall to just catch the last indigenous tribal dance.
I love to see the different costumes. I missed these women dancing.
The dance was representing harvesting and planting in their tribe.
Lots of vendors were selling things, kind of like a carnival. Need some shoes? Everyone wears these flip-flops called "tsinelas".
I love the local fruit!! In season now you can find mangosteen, rambhutan and lanzones. Yum!

Staff Retreat

We took a lovely mountain road up to the staff retreat. What beautiful valleys! (Mom and Dad, you've been on this road before--on a bus---remember?)
We have a great staff with both returning and new teachers. It was fun to get to know each other through personality tests and then a human graph like this one.
Just a short hike down the hills and we were at this lovely waterfall. I love being in God's creation. The air was so fresh and cool!
The only down-side to the mountain is that there are lots of critters and creatures! Look at the size of this thing! (This is NOT my thumb!). That night we heard something eating our wall; a mouse? a rat? Who knows?
As we loaded the bus to leave the little local kids came up to us selling bracelets. How could you choose which one to buy from? So cute!

End of First Week

The end of the first week is over, and I can say it went GREAT!! I think this was the best first week of teaching ever! I feel like I finally know how to plan lessons and connect with every type of learner in my class. I LOVE my students and I am having a blast teaching them!! We both praise the Lord for the health and strength He gave us this week. Nate and I can feel your prayers!! God is filling us up and anointing us by His grace and power!
This weekend I will be a leader on the high school beach trip. The purpose of the trip is #1: to foster school unity among new and returning students and staff and #2: to focus our year on worshiping God together. I will be speaking on Monday night during one of our sessions. I'm so excited about the message God has given me! Please pray for me and for the students.

I am going to focus on Psalm 145.3 "Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom." I am also going to head toward closing with the song "God of Wonders beyond our galaxy." I'm just heading off in a few minutes to print off several amazing photos of God's creation that I got from webshots.com. I'm going to start with things here on earth that show God's glory, and then move throughout our solar system to the sun and out to the farthest point (pictured here at pluto--the sun is still visible!). Then I am going to show pictures of the Milky way and then out to other galaxies. To think: "The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you." (1 Kings 8.27). Wow!! God is great and most worthy of praise!

"Cliff Notes"

This is one of the more busy weeks of the year so I will give brief notes for the moment:
--Staff retreat went GREAT! Unity, worship, prayer...cool mountain air
--First day of school, I was alive, excited and pumped for the year!
--I LOVE my students!
--Nate is the BEST Music teacher ever!--his students are learning lots!
--Spanish is coming back to me--I am practicing lots!
--Night classes three Mon., Tues., Thurs.--three hours each
--One free night, tonight, to buy groceries for the home
--This weekend is the high school beach trip--I'm speaking one night and also helping lead worship with two student leaders
--God is giving us health and strength and great joy
--Nate and I are unified and in love!

_praise the Lord for His grace and joy--pray for continued health and effectiveness

Our Boys

Maybe someday God will give us sons, but recently we have adopted several! One day as we were riding our bikes home we heard the sound of flip-flops slapping the street. Three boys were chasing Nate to the gate of our house. When we got there they said "Limpio?" We knew they were asking us if they could sweep or clean for us.

The boys were about 9 or 10 years old and were out to find jobs! I had just the job for them. Our back "yard" hasn't been cleaned for the whole time we have lived in the Philippines. It is basically a cement rectangle with a sink and a washing spinner machine. There was mold and green stuff in the cracks; dirt under the washer, it was all nasty. I didn't want to get down and scrub it, but these boys are used to getting dirty.

We gave them some tools and they set to work. They worked HARD! They were scraping and scrubbing, working together and cooperating. It was so fun to hear their language as they coordinated tasks together.
When they were all done I looked and saw three sets of eyes peering in the back screen. I wish I had a picture of that! It was precious. We invited them in for a nice snack while Nate read them a Bible story in their language. Then we paid them and sent them on their way with "take-out food" and some old treasures they found while cleaning that we didn't want. What a fun day watching our boys do their chores.

Shortly after that day we had 5 high school guys over for a night of "Settlers of Catan". Again a table full of sons. It was so fun to hear them trade and discuss good places on the board. They got loud! I couldn't believe how much they discussed during the game. Usually we are all intense and quiet. They ate dozens of my cookies and muffins, saying thank you of course. When they all stood up I felt like a midget! Tall sons and one tall husband and a little lady hosting the boys. Wow, that was fun! Thank you, Lord, for many adoptive sons! (The Filipinos always tell us they're praying for us to have one "made in the Philippines"!)

Our Church Couple's Fellowship

Recently we participated with our church in the couple's fellowship. We thought you'd like to get a few pictures of our church here in the Philippines. It is a great place for worship and fellowship. The people are so friendly and welcoming.

Nate and I have actually been taking some dance lessons this summer from a couple locals. They have been teaching us the native indigenous dances of the peoples on our island. One of them includes the use of this "malong" material you see. It was fun to practice our new dance, but kind of intimidating for us white people to do it for the Filipinos! They were all so gracious and said we inspired them as city people to learn more about the indigenous people!

At the end of the evening one of the small groups sang a song, "I will be here," only they changed it to "Will you be there?" and sang it to each other. It was very fun to see! Thank you, Lord, for a wonderful church family, both in the U.S. and here in the Philippines! Here we are enjoying dinner with our friends, the worship leaders.

The Mark of the Anay

Yes, folks, pictured here is the mark of the anay. It is a very specific design and looks almost like a Chinese character. We got struck at our house with this mark.

What is the anay, you ask? Do I have any guesses? Yes, my friends, this is the word for "termites." Oh, folks, do you know how I feel about having these crawling all over our house? Thankfully, they have not made it to our books yet! (Our friends read a good book and they said, "We really liked it...the termites liked it too, which is why we can't loan it to you).

I've been staring up at the corner of our bedroom for quite some time now. As you can see, this is the view from my bed. I lay and look up at this growing brown line in the corner of the room by the ceiling. I've been wondering....wondering...what that thing is. However, I had my suspicions, and today they were confirmed by the guy who came to assess the mark of the anay. How would you sleep at night after a guy told you these little termites were circling the moulding around your room, around and around?
This is all the damage done that we can see from the outside. I wonder what is happening on the inside!!

So much destruction!

Now, the preacher in me has to make a lesson out of this amazing illustration. Please listen.

When I first discovered the anay I was cleaning the upper shelf of the closet for some guests that would be staying with us. I had the closet organized and tidy. I had everything put where it was supposed to be. From all appearances my whole house was in order.

Then I decided to move the cardboard box that was on the top shelf to see what was in it. I was thinking, "Maybe there are some decorations or candles I can use for the guests...", but instead I found it crawling with little bugs (now known to me as anay). I screamed and got sick inside.

You see, this anay is like sin in our lives. We may have everything together on the outside and may appear to everyone opening the closet door that things are tidy and in order. But inside, deep inside where no one can even see, there may be some unchecked sin that we have not even ventured near to touch or move or discover. In fact, just like the anay, we may not even WANT to discover such icky things in our closets!!

However, let me teach you a lesson about the anay in our lives....the same lesson God taught me! I didn't have time to deal with the little bugs that day. I sprayed the closet and aired it out because my guests were coming in a couple days!! (I didn't tell them what I found in their closet--of course!). I did a quick surface cover up, thinking maybe the problem went away. Yet, as you can see from the pictures, the unresolved anay in my closet ended up spreading through the entire upstairs.....around the frames of the doors....on the moulding by the baseboard...behind the desk in my office....and circling the entire circumfrence of our bedroom.

Yes, even though the problem of "anay" or sin in our lives may be icky and we don't even want to think of opening that door in our hearts, it is better to treat it properly to the depths or else it will spread and become more destructive and will spread to every other room in our lives.

"If you keep yourself pure, you will be a utensil God can use for his purpose. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work." 2 Timothy 2.21NLT

OT Chronological Puzzle

Journal entry 07.23.07M

Yesterday I began work on the OT Chronological puzzle! What a task--so good for me to do myself. There is no chart I can find that has put together the OT in the order I'd like to teach it. So I work hard.

I began today just before 9am and worked for hours on the Divided Kingdom puzzle! Piecing together Kings and Chronicles with Joel, Jonah, Amos, Micah, Hosea and Isaiah. Then I came to the problem of Isaiah, which I still can't solve (do you break at ch. 9 or 10 before the time of Hezekiah?...should I teach chapter 11-66 all in one chunk?). I compared sources to get a good teaching order--correct dates and a message flow that makes sense.

Now I've worked just as many hours (only to break for lunch) on the puzzle of Judah standing alone. Zephaniah and Jeremiah go together at first, but only during Josiah's reigh. Then you have the question of Nahum and Habakkuk --when also to teach it. We go back and forth between 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles and match prophecies with Jeremiah.

I've got my Guenter prophets notes and keep going on marking trails through my Bible doing more study on the prophets like I've always wanted to. I'm eating it up like a banquet, and I have the luxury of a whole entire day alone at home. It's like a monestary.

Then after flipping and reading and marking and studying, trying to figure out Jeremiah--I finally laugh with relief when I read from the EBC:
"No commentator, ancient or modern, has seriously posited a chronological arrangement of [Jeremiah's] prophecies."
I laughed at that statement! Ha! So, we go through a maze?
It continues:
"It is too much, however, to conclude that the book is a hopeless maze."

I'm so intrigued by Jeremiah and after reading about how he is the unique, significant, historical prophet who is so closely paralleled to Jesus, I can't wait to learn more!

Before and After

Yesterday was my friend, Jeannie's birthday, so we decided to get our hair cut together. I've always loved magazines where they pose so sad and serious for the before and then all happy for the "after" pose. It's the smile that really makes all the difference--and I guess the hair too. What do you think?




After Nate saw me he said, "Wow, you look hot!", so he decided to get his hair cut too. He walked into the same place just a couple hours after I had just been there. We had fun last night picking out his "before" picture. Of course Nate is so handsome, he could not really have a "before" picture, but perhaps just a "look #1" photo. We thought we would compare hair style, glasses, and facial hair (don't let the expression throw you off, now!). What do you think?

2nd Anniversary!

Yesterday we celebrated two wonderful years of marriage! We praise God for our relationship and for His faithfulness.

Nate woke up early and biked to the market to buy some red and white roses for me--our wedding flowers! How sweet. I gave him this nice new outfit and planned the whole thing to coordinate with me for our photo shoot. It turned out great!

We have night class on Tuesday nights, so we planned for a lunch date. We went to the "Swiss Deli", a European restaurant with delicious selections. After enjoying a lovely meal and sharing our honeymoon scrapbook together, we stepped outside to catch a taxi. It was so sad to discover it was raining!

I was really disappointed that we would not be able to do the photo shoot, but Nate was sweet and flexible and was willing to do one anyway in the carport. After taking a few shots, it stopped raining!! I was SO excited! It turned out AMAZING after all because the lighting was perfect and everything was fresh and vibrant. The pictures were SO good that I am going to keep them mostly private and only post a couple here, because I'm afraid they are too good--someone out there might steal them and sell them! Anyway, we got some romantic pictures in some very Philipino scenes, and we will enjoy those pictures for many years to come.

Thank you, Lord, for this covenant of marriage ordained by You. Thank you for your grace and faithfulness to us. Thank you for pouring your love to us so we can pour our love to each other. May we have many more wonderful years together serving you, Lord!

P.S. And a very happy 64th wedding anniversary to my Grandparents! You are a godly example to us.

Sunsets We Saw--God's Creation!

I love sunsets. Thankfully we were able to enjoy two on our way back home by land and sea. I love the sunset camera setting on my new FujiFinePix.

Prior Pics

Here are some pics from our trip a month ago. After one month I finally got my camera back out (this is a long time for me!). Here in Manila we found a store named after me!
The Filipino kids were walking to school on the first day carrying their flags with them. What a busy road to be walking to school on! The Filipino school year goes from June to March.
A famous beach destination with lots of sand! Lovely! I thankfully had enough strength during my sickness to come to the ocean to enjoy some sun.
Nate had fun running down the beach like Eric Liddel of "Chariots of Fire."

Practice Parenting

I finally got over my one-month photo/camera fast. I was so sad, I couldn't get out my camera for a month. Now we are back in business here with the photos!

Saturday morning, Nate and I got a chance to practice parenting. We had four girls come over at 9am until 1p.m. Their parents needed a "packing date" so we helped them out. We had absolutely no kids stuff there, so I went around borrowing books, games, toys and making copies of coloring book pages.

We had a blast together and got along great--praise the Lord! Nate is going to be a great dad someday--look at him helping out with lunch! We served one of their favorite meals: mac and cheese, apples and chips. Yum! They said our milk tasted funny.

Nate and I had so many laughs once they left as we reviewed all their funny comments of the day. Kids have a way of being so blunt. Like on our tour of the home we took them to the guest room, which is normally shut, and Laura said, "This room is really stinky!" Normally you might take offense like, "Oh! How could it be?!" but I had to laugh and admit it was true. On the other hand this same girl said sweetly, "You have a really pretty house!" How sweet!

Nate and I had the biggest laugh when we were remembering the Monopoly game he played with the two oldest. Of course he went third, so the girls were getting ahead and buying properties. His first few turns were, 1. Income tax, 2. Visiting jail and 3. landing on one of their properties. When the oldest looked at his money and how few cards he had, she said bluntly "You're a loser!" Of course it meant that "You're kind of behind right now..." Nate later told me if he had been playing with guys he would have said, "Oh yeah, well watch out, buddy!" and then once he got ahead he would have said, "Now, who's the loser! Ha!" We were just joking, of course, with ourselves, but it was so funny to think how kids just say comments like that and we just suck it up with our own judgments on the situation. Too funny!

I think after that four-hour fun Saturday, that I am not yet ready to be a mom! They are so sweet, but I loved reading in bed alone once they left. On the other hand, their mom was tired and she had them for the rest of the day! Praise the Lord for loving mothers and fathers!!

Creatures We Live With

Hello friends!

I thought I would give you a taste of some of the normal creatures we share our lives with here in the Philippines.

#1--the amigas--in the local language "amigas" means "ants". No, these fellows are far from being our friends, folks. They annoy me and get to me every day. There is nothing more motivating to doing the dishes and taking out the "basura" than to see a trail of ants surrounding your crumbs. Get rid of the food crumbs=get rid of the ants. Tidy, tidy I have become!

#2--"la cucaracha"--that's right, the cockroaches! You do not want to go to the C.R. (comfort room) in the dark at night, because you might just step on a cockroach, and that is not fun in bare feet. When I turn on the lights I see something running to hide and sure enough, "we see you!". Nate grabs his shoe (or mine!) and stomps that thing out. I've become brave enough to do it myself when necessary, but I much prefer my hero to do it.

#3--geckos--those little guys with wide eyes are climbing the walls and sneaking around the house. Where do they come from? The good thing is they are not as gross and are not harmful. However, they do annoy me. One day I put the lid to the toilet down after having just sat there, and I screamed to find a huge gecko right behind my back and staring at me with wide eyes. I've learned to shake my towel out front and back before wrapping it around myself--obvious reasons--you don't want to be cuddling with a gecko (or a cucaracha!)

#4--termites--these are the WORST!!! I don't know if you could even bear my stories about those dudes, but they are so small and secretive that when you finally discover them you are like "OH NO!!!" Oh boy, those things get to my soul, I'm telling you! After many discoveries (what is the deal with cardboard?! You'd think it was chocolate!)....I have had to take a shower, clean the whole house, sweep everything, spray everything, and wash everything just to get myself to feel clean again. I just feel like my skin is crawling when I come upon a village of those termites living in an old box or in some wood. I hate those termites--I'm serious!

#5--one creature we HOPE we never see in our house is a cobra. Yesterday at school we heard a banging sound....come to find out our student's dad was smashing the head of a cobra with the bottom of the trombone case. I'm sure that's not the best thing to do with an instrument case, but he would rather kill that thing than get bit! I've heard stories of people finding those poisonous creatures in their homes, but I'm hoping I never have to tell one of those.

(I've already told you my rat story from a couple years ago--ewww!).

That's all for today. I hope you are glad you don't live with these creatures!

I Refer You to...

Some of you have been faithfully checking in on our blog. I'm so proud of you! Thanks for staying in touch!

I just want to say, sorry for the lack of photos lately (and updates). After all the many pictures I took when my parents were here I got into this "photo fast" for a while. I mean, once they left, what else exciting could there be? It's all the same to me now, but I know if you were here you would take lots of photos.

I will leave you with words today--and I will direct you to the photos I've been enjoying lately. I will refer you to two blogs that I have really been enjoying tracking with lately. One is the last link on this page--Rob in Israel. It is one of the Bible translators that my parents met when they were here. He is now taking a class in Jerusalem! It is so fun to see his pictures and learn about the place where the Bible is set through his blog. I refer you to that link to read his wonderful updates and see photos of Israel there. (Will I ever get to visit there?).

Secondly, I refer you to the blog link below titled"Ryan & Katie". It has been so fun to track with their story of adoption. They are such a great family and just got back from Russia. You can see I like travel blogs (you probably do too!). Anyway, since I don't have a lot to say today, I will refer you to share with me in journeying with those who do! Blessings!

He is Like a Tree Planted by Streams

"Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers."

Psalm 1.1-3

It has been amazing reading and listening to God's Word every day. I am saturated with His word and wisdom. Already I am on Proverbs 16, and I am learning so much! God's Word is just coming alive to me. I recommend everyone get the Bible on CD. You can just listen to it in the car, or on a run or while you do the dishes. That is what I have been doing, and it is amazing how much you can soak up each day.

I was also encouraged to meet up with two of my students the other day. They shared that they were studying Psalm 1 and have been reading the Bible this summer. We were able to encourage each other and share what God has been teaching us.

What has God been teaching you this summer? What are some verses that God is really speaking to you with? Let us meditate on HIs Word day and night!

Prophets

Since I will be teaching Old Testament this upcoming school year, I have decided to make it my goal to read/listen to the whole OT this summer. I decided to start at the end and move backwards. Today I just began Jeremiah.

The prophets are some of my favorite books--they are becoming even more interesting to me everyday. Some people get confused about the message and think it is all about how angry God is. I am able to see even more just how relevant the message is for our day.

As I listened to Ezekiel I really heard God's heart for repentance. He does not like sin at all and is very patient with his people to repent. However, if they will not repent, there will be consequences and judgement.

So many of the examples of sin in the prophets are exactly what I am seeing and hearing about in our world today. People have put idols before them, like television, movies, sports, appearances...or like I earlier wrote about my own schedule. We don't think of ourselves as being a nation with a lot of statues or golden Buddhas, but we really do put other kinds of images before our eyes. And sexual immorality is a huge problem today--many people don't take marriage seriously! It grieves me so much to hear how carelessly people are giving themselves to someone else sexually without even giving thought to God--or as the prophet Jeremiah says, "without even blushing". Instead, I think we should heed the message of the prophets--to cry out to God and repent of our sin and the sin in our land. How much time do we really spend soaking in God's word? How much time do we spend praying? How much time do I?

I encourage everyone to spend some time every day reading God's Word. We cannot let ourselves be deceived or polluted by the world. We need to stand firm against the devil's schemes, or we will become just like Israel who turned from God's ways and hardened their hearts against Him. The consequences of living for ourselves are too grave to not think about. Let us purify our hearts and come before our God. Let us kneel before our Maker. Let us draw near to Him and He will draw near to us. (Disclaimer--I didn't bring my Bible over here to the internet or I would have shared more verses with you).

Summer Sickness

We said good-bye to my parents a week ago. Yes, that was a sad day. I truly praise God for the time we had together and that they really got to come and do all those amazing things with us! We praise Him that we were all healthy and strong, and that they returned to U.S.A. safely.

When my parents left, we accompanied them to Manila and then planned to return here by land and sea. Here are some excerpts from my recent email to them:

...Saturday we had a slow day and I had a chance to go to Starbucks and read that book Dad gave me. That night we met up with some friends of ours who just had a baby boy at Christmas. It was fun spending time with them.

Sunday we went to a Catholic mass in the old city for a cultural and religious experience. It was really interesting. Later that night I started feeling sick, and that was the beginning of a week of sickness.

On Monday morning we were supposed to meet our friends, Micah and Rachel, at the airport, but I woke up feeling even more sick. I was so bummed! I slept some more and then forced myself out of bed to meet them at the mall for lunch. I could hardly eat a bite.

We drove with them in our NZ friend's car down to the Batangas. It was a couple hours. Thankfully I did not need a C.R. on the drive. Once we got there we stayed with their family and my former student, Christy, was really happy to see me. I felt bad because I had to leave the dinner table to go lay down. I slept 13 or 14 hours until the next morning.

I was disappointed about my sickness, which I still don't know what it was (in fact I am still recovering a bit from it). It was my stomache especially and I felt nasuea all the time. I was so weak and had no appetite. I hardly ate anything the whole week.

Nate and I kept plugging along and took a boat to a nice OSM guesthouse overlooking the ocean. It was so beautiful! We met some Vietnamese believers who go to seminary in Manila. They told us of the persecution in their country and the underground church. We also got to lay in hammocks and read, so that helped me a lot.

The next day, however, we left again at 5am and took a van/bus thing several hours down the next island to the dock at Roxas. It was the first day of school so we saw all the little kids walking in their uniforms down the highway (do they let kids do that?!). The road was rough and I tried to sleep on Nate's shoulder.

When we got to the dock I almost fainted. I had to get some juice and bread and then sat down by a wall and layed my head on my knees. I was a mess! The men in the town thought I was wierd I'm sure as they wondered what this white woman was doing in a heap by the wall. Nate bought us our boat tickets and after a wait and a walk we were on another boat.

The smell of the fish and the smoke was enough to get me reeling. I felt like I was so dizzy and I could not stand. Finally they let us up to the deck where I immediately slept on a bench and never really woke up. I was constantly sleeping. Nate said I was like a mute the whole day. I was a zombie trying to stay afloat!

When we got to the next island, we took a little Banca boat over to a famous island called Boracay. Lots of tourists come here for vacation. The sad thing was I couldn't enjoy it because I was sick! We walked up a hill in the hot sun and I just wanted to find a bed!

God provided a lady who walked by and told us about a cottage with an air con and hot showers for only 1000P. It was minutes from the ocean beach and it was just around the corner from where we were! Perfect! They showed us the room and before they even closed the door I was on the bed.

I felt so bummed that we were in a world-famous beach and it was beautiful, but all I wanted to do was go to the C.R. and lay on my bed. A whole day I slept in there. Thankfully, we decided to stay two nights. By the second day I was strong enough to go out to the beach and sit in a chair while I watched Nate swim. I was so disappointed that I could not swim with Nate or even play frisbee with him. I just sat and read. I was so weak.

After all that madness I asked Nate if we could just fly home. I just wanted to be home. We got tickets for Friday, that next day, and took a two hour bus around windy cliffs to the airport. We flew for maybe $80, so it was worth it. Otherwise I would have had three more days on a bus through the mountains!!

When we finally got home I was so glad!! We were so glad to be home--did I say that? Well, it was quite a week. We were so sad to say goodbye to [my parents], then to Victoria and Micah and Rachel. I got sick on our trip and then when we got home it was somewhat empty.

I have been resting constantly and trying to recover since we got back Friday night. I have only been out once, and that was to go to church on Sunday and to get groceries. I never even came to school to check email or to write you two. I was just so wiped out.

I'm so thankful that God kept us all healthy and strong while you were here!!! I would have been even more disappointed if my sickness had been while you were here. I'm finally getting better little by little. Pray that Nate and I will both be well and strong soon!...

Vacation to the Sea

This was the vacation of a lifetime! We each got one of those little huts, and we were neighbors. Our view was beautiful and the weather was perfect! Thank you, Lord, for this special time.
I got to spend time with each one I love. Me and Dad loved the pool that overlooked the ocean.
Nate and I got to play around in the ocean and explore the sea with snorkel masks.
Mom and I look lovely in our Polynesian flowers, don't we? Of course we do. I love you, Mumsy!

Tonight we will fly together to Manila, so pray for us all as we travel. Praise the Lord for a wonderful two weeks together! A gift from God and answer to prayer that will never be forgotten.

Vacation to the Mountain

Tuesday we went up to the mountain where the cool breeze blows. On the way up we stopped at a fruit stand to introduce my parents to the famous "Durian" fruit. They have a saying, "Smells like hell, tastes like heaven." My Dad wasn't too sure about trying this!
They worked up their courage and had a taste at last. I can't post all the pictures, but imagine the two of them trying this strange fruit for the first time. They're really Filipino now!
Up on the mountain we enjoyed relaxing and seeing God's creation. We got to play catch with the football, walk around the woods and read in hammocks. What a fun day!