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Disaster Response/Preparedness
We had two turnover of donations and both had to do with disasters: The first was for Tondo. On December 11, they had a fire that left 1500 people homeless. As if the people in the slums of Tondo didn’t have enough to deal with! When we went to take a look at their needs…
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Never a Dull Moment!
When I was looking back on our pictures from this past week, I was shocked to recall all the things we did this past week. It was a bit crazy, even for us! This coming week proves to be much more stationary and perhaps even a bit dull. Last week started off by us going…
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Manila Mash-up
We spent this past week in Metro Manila area. No long road trips, just trips to the heart of Manila- which means dealing with lots of traffic. I will just talk about the highlights of this past week. First of all, last Sunday, we met up with Dave Laureo and his family from Narra Palawan.…
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A Little Grandparent Interlude
We said good-bye to Allison and family who spent the past week getting to know the Philippines a bit. I hope we didn’t exhaust each other too much! As we were sharing life here with them, it made me realize how much we are going to miss being here. I got a bit teary at…
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Let’s Hear it For Church Employees
This week really was spent with church employees. We started out by going up to Tanay to the FSY Camp for our annual planning conference with all the Welfare and Self Reliance managers, their managers, education workers and of course, humanitarian missionaries. It was our first time to be at the Tanay Camp- it was…
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Flying Saucers
We had a “normal” week this week after our craziness with the literacy projects. We did a fair amount of catching up and just catching our breath, then we had a full day in Tondo on Thursday. Lennie had a “vision” of sorts a while back where he envisioned lots of NGOs and residents coming…
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Literacy Marathon Week!
We reached the finish line! And what an intense week it was. Especially for Elder Huff. He is the one who handled all of the many spreadsheets, all of the logistics, all of the travel arrangements, and most of the headaches. I just had to be there to support, to help with the logistics and…
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Giving Thanks!
We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family, friends, or just by yourselves. We all have so, very much to be grateful for. When I think of all the suffering here, as well as other places around the world, it makes us wonder how we are all so fortunate. We had a wonderful…
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Over the Mountains and thru the Rice Fields….
To turnovers we will go! Last week was a week of lots of driving! And not to apple turnovers or pumpkin pie, but to turnover of donations. The first was for a very rural health center in Baler, the surfing capitol of the Philippines. We were basically furnishing this tiny new health center in a…
We are the Huffs!
After being retired for three years – remodeling our house, living through COVID, traveling around the country to see our children and grandchildren – we decided it was time to do something truly meaningful and bigger than self. We’ve long wanted to serve a mission together for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. On June 21, 2022, we received our call to serve as humanitarian missionaries in the Philippines. On August 22, our mission began at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. On September 4, we arrived in the Philippines. We look forward to sharing our adventure over the next 18 months.
