Philippines!!

After almost two days of travel we finally made it to the beautiful Island of Bohol! The minute we stepped of the plane it was like walking into a sauna with all your clothes on. We literally landed in an airport so small it was in the the backyards of the City's main street. The island itself is pretty large but mostly uninhabited making the city very crammed with people and buildings.

~Kyle and Joey wearing there neck rests...~ After landing we went straight to Bohol Tropics where we were greeted by the precious Philipino people holding a banner and singing welcome and worship songs.

The people here are so precious and full of pure love and servitude it's amazing. The question arises again how can people be so poor yet be so happy? We americans have everything and more than these people would ever dream of in a lifetime and still we are selfish and rude {speaking to myself here too} about what we have and who we are. This definitely made me think again about who I am as a person and who I want to be.

While in service Thursday morning I looked over and saw these beautiful children all in their best clothes sitting together without parents and all of them were staring at us. The children clostest to me were really precious so I gave them some candy. After they were finished they kept staring at me, staring at my purse {where the candy came from} back and forth, back and forth. Finally I got the hint that they wanted more candy...sooo I gave them more. Well they kept looking at me and I thought to myself, 'they have candy, what else do they want?' Out of the corner of my eye I caught the little girl trying to mouth the words I was saying and she was also clapping just like I was and was basically imitating whatever I was doing. I leaned down and told here that I was saying 'halelluah' and after that she started yelling it really loud everytime I did. It was the most precious and heart warming thing I've ever seen.


Well I will post more things soon, but it takes a long time to upload any media.

Signing off.