So much happened sicne i last updated but i'm just going to write about Philippines.
Everything is going well here. I've been here two weeks but it seems like i've been here for a month. We're currently at Batangas, it's 2 hour south of Manila by car. There are 16 people in my outreach team and the 16 people are divided into 3 groups. Each group has a town we go to every tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and saturday that we minister to. My team goes to a small isolated town in the middle of nowhere called Tubog. There are about 70-80 families living there and they are all from about 2-3 family trees. So for example, a friend i met there has a grandpa who had 13 children who most are now married and have children. Now the grandpa's grandchildren count over 30 kids out of about 70 kids total there.
They are poorer than the average in Philippines. MOst of the kids farm since they are born. Almost all stay in the secluded town and rarely go out to the cities. Everytime we go to Tubog, all the kids shout to their friends that we are here and run to us. It's touching how excited they get. The older guys are all quiet and shy; their spirit is very poor. The highlight so far in Tubog was this past week. A grandmother and her daughter were healed from shoulder pains and then was saved. They were then baptized two days later by our staff.
The kids there are like monkies. If i tell them i want some mangos, they climb the tree super fast and swing from branch to branch and get mangos for me. If i want some coconut, they would climb coconut trees super fast and cut up some coconuts for us. It's an adventure with those kids. I climbed a tree once too because they made it look so fun.
We also went to a place called Badjao. It's the poorest place i've been to yet. It stinks there and kids have sores on their faces and many have pink eyes. I heard we're going to a poorer place though, called the Smokey Mountain. it's supose to be one of the worst places to live in the world. I heard a lot of people throw up from just smelling the smell there. It's going to be exciting going there.
I want to write more but my time on the computer is limited. I'll update again soon, hopefully. 2 more weeks then Singapore! BYE!
This coming week is our last week there
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