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Meetings, Trainings, More Meetings, Oh My!
This was an intense week of meetings! Sometimes I feel sorry for the local Area leaders that work with us because they have to spend so much time training us and getting us up to speed. Then in 18 months, we leave and it starts all over again. I hope we get to a point,…
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Visit to our Local Barangay
Yesterday, we went “behind the wall” into the small barangay (village) right next to our beautiful bubble of Eastwood and into the “real” Philippines. We had an amazing experience there. Elder Steve Leininger (he and his wife have been humanitarian missionaries here for a year now and have been helping us get settled etc,) took…
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Welcome to the Philippines!
What a first week it has been. We arrived at the Manila Airport very late Saturday night, September 4. On Sunday, we went to church at the Buendia Chapel in Makati, which was the center of the Church in the Philippines when Lenard was there on his mission from 1971 to 1973. That brought back…
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It’s a Whole New World!
We made it! And it’s not a journey we want to make again anytime soon. Everything went well, so no real complaints, but it was a very long day of travel. We had to be at the MTC at 4:30 a.m. to catch the shuttle to the airport, then waited for a couple of hours…
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The MTC- A Spiritual Feast
Our nine days at the MTC went by in a whirlwind. We can’t even describe the complexity of feelings we had while we were here. Nor can we remember half of what we learned. What we can remember, though, is the dedication of all those who presented and taught us, including the young returned sister…
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.
