Thankful All the Time

First picture is another cool sky/view of the tubo (sugar cane) fields in one of our outside areas. Man I love being back in the country. :)

And as my mission president would say, Aloha! :) 

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! I'll admit that I didn't know it was thanksgiving day until one of the mission couples texted us wishing us Happy Thanksgiving, and since Thanksgiving is an exclusively American holiday, I actually was not able to get stuffed with turkey this year and fall into my annual turkey coma.

My Heart is Aching

Wow. I mean wow. My heart aches every time I see any pictures or video footage from the island of Lete. Not to mention how those missionaries must be feeling right now having their entire mission just swept off the map. I've actually lost a little sleep a few nights just thinking about it. I don't know what I would do if I wasn't able to come back to Bacolod after something like that happened there.
 

We received an announcement that we will be receiving some of the missionaries from Tacloban that have been reassigned to our mission, so we hope that they can find a home here in Bacolod and move on somewhat from what they experienced.