Service Projects on Panglao

We helped clean up a vacant lot for the owner. She is planning to build a restaurant on the lot. She wants to make it a cultural experience for the tourist by having music and traditional dancing at her restaurant. She is an excellent cook. 

Cutting back the vines and growth using a knife 

Taking a break, tossing a coconut around.

The owner makes the best empanadas ever. It is a family recipe. So delicious I ate more than my share.
I had eaten all mine and they were pretty quickly consumed by the missionaries.
So Sister Magdaraog let me take her picture before she finished hers.

Group photo of all the Dauis missionaries helping with the project. We got a lot done.

 Another project we worked on was the clearing and helping of building a new home. The mother of the family was home from her job abroad and wanted the project started. We cut down the trees growing inside the structure and leveled the ground, carried bricks for the workers and mixed up cement.

Children gathered to watch the work.

Coconut husks drying out. They are used to scrub floors and to start fires.

They feed the cows banana trees.The younger calves banana tree was chopped up. They say it is very nutritious for the animals. I am not sure on that fact because the animals look like they could use more food in their diet.

Everyone has these large benches by their homes. They are huge for as small as the people are.
But I guess large ones are better for lounging on.

Elder Detuya cutting up green mangoes for a snack. When green they taste a lot like a green apple, kind of sour. 

The children were very interested in the work. They needed a closer view, instead of just through the window.

I mostly just observed but Dad worked up a good sweat.

A cute little observer of the work.

Children teaching Sister Nalawas some Cebuano. They all sang the theme song from "Frozen" for us.
Children are pretty much the same all over the world, I am beginning to think.

Tagbilaran District work detail

Coconuts ready for making Buko juice