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Lest We Forget!
Happy Memorial Day, everyone! We had a poignant experience this weekend which made me realize that we don’t stop and reflect often enough on the freedoms we enjoy, the truth we have, the blessings that our ours…because of the sacrifices of so many who have gone before. We found out about a service opportunity at…
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You Raise Me Up!
After our whirlwind of a week last week, it has been so refreshing to just mostly be here, getting caught up and only having one turnover to attend to. This Tuesday we went back to Tondo for the turnover of donations for the Upskills Foundation. This has been in the works forever, it seems, so…
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On the Road Again…
This past week was our major travel week. We combined a lot of things that were loosely in the same area and drove, drove, drove. First stop was Gapanin, the province of Nueva Ecija. We had a request at the high school there, so just a super quick stop. Our destination that night was the…
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Catch Up Time
Hallelujah! We were home almost the entire week and boy did we need it! We had so much to catch up on. Of course, we ended up going to see some new potential projects with some service missionaries and we did end up having to travel on Saturday, but we realized just how behind we…
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Nostalgic Naga
So, Naga is a city in Southern Luzon. This isn’t in our actual area, but since we are working on the Literacy Projects with Kenneth Lee (our supervisor now) we got to go outside our area. There were no flights available to Naga, so we had to fly to Legazpi then drive four hours up…
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Literacy for Palawan
This past week was dominated by two big literacy projects: Puerto Princesa School Division and Palawan School Division School Based Tutoring projects . We flew to Puerto Princesa on Monday evening and were pleasantly surprised by how nice the hotel was. It was a very comfortable place to call “home” for a few days. And…
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Unexpected
It’s been about two weeks now since we learned of the death of Lennie’s brother, Rick. As the title implies, it was totally unexpected. He had 7 bypass surgery about 15 years ago, and he had a mild heart attack last year, so I guess you could say it wasn’t totally unexpected, but he went…
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Three Cheers for Books!
The past two weeks our work has been hyper-focused on literacy. We have been working alongside Kenneth Lee, who is now our Welfare manager. He has been very passionate about promoting projects that will hopefully shift non-readers and frustrated readers into readers. We have been talking to Stakes about the Stake literacy projects and school…
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Turnover Time!
What a busy week this was. Sometimes we are forced to run faster than we have strength. We need to find balance! That said, though, it was also a very rewarding week. We had three turnover of donations, also known as handover of donations. This is the culminating activity- when the project has been approved,…
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Groundbreaking!
We attended our first groundbreaking this week. In fact, I can’t remember if I have ever been a real part of a groundbreaking. As a first experience, I’m not sure this could be topped. This was a groundbreaking for a new “house” for the Lighthouse Sanctuary NGO. They have a facility in the very northern…
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.
