One Full Month on Filipino soil!

Primary at the Baguio/Leguarde Ward.  I helped teach the CTR class.   They had never sang the song "If you chance to meet a frown, do not let it stay; quickly turn it upside down, and smile that frown away."  
The Saints here are faithful and happy people.  Their conditions are not easy, but they are filled with joy and love life.
  They are so willing to serve and to share what they have.   They have amazingly strong and dedicated
Priesthood leaders who are faithful and diligent in all of their responsibilities and callings.   Many have served
as Area 70's, Mission Presidents, Area Directors, Stake Presidents.   The Church here is strengthening families
and  giving hope to those who have little.  

Me at my desk.  We moved it into the SunRoom.
I spend plenty of time here when we are at
the apartment.    I snuggle up in my hoodie - it gets
a bit chilly in morn and even in Baguio.

Our Philippines Area Welfare Director,
Carl Revillo is in the green shirt.  We took
him to the Member Welfare Project in Tarlac
in which a group of Ward Members have
formed a Co-Op and will be getting a feed-mill
plant up and running.   They have just been
approved for a grant from the Philippines
government to run a beef feed lot.  This will allow
them to help more members and non-members in
the community to have gainful employment as
well as provide for their own families.

Donating some of the receiving blankets that
you have sent to one of the hospitals that we
 have visited in our Humanitarian work.  This is at the
 Ilocos Training Center and Hospital in San Fernando,
La Union.  They have an average of 50 births at this
 hospital a day.  It is normal for 15 to 20 of those
 births end up  in the Intensive care Unit.

Here in the Baguio General Hospital, they have 25
average births a day, with 5 to 8 going to
NICU.

Pink Horses.   Riding stable just around the bend from us.  Probably 60+ horses available.  They come past
 our apartment daily.  The color just makes me smile.   Kids love them.  My granddaughter Oakley would
literally 'be in love' with these true to life 'pretty ponies'.  LOL

Dark picture ...sorry.   This is Dennis
Smith - Wheel Chair specialist
for the Church world wide.  He is
setting up 2 to 3 more Projects for
the Philippines area.  It is humbling
to see how these programs bless the
lives of those in need.  

Horrible picture of me ... oh well.   This young lady is 13
and this is her tiny little newborn.  She was extremely happy
to choose the blue blanket to be able to take her little
boy home in.