Panglao Island

Panglao Island is connected to Bohol by two bridges. It is a small island. The southern part has beautiful beaches and many Beach Resorts with tourist.  We have two churches on Panglao one on each end of the island

We love this family. Their home is lovely and very nice.

Salli and Franco have two other children. We gave them the Book of Mormon Scripture stories for their family. They are not able to be baptized yet as they are not married. It cost quite a bit of money to get married as the fees and requirements are hard for some families to come up with. They are trying to save the money to get married.

Went to the Dauis activity out at Alona Beach. the mayor let us use her beach resort for free as she is very fond of the church. The church gave her friend a wheel chair to get around in and she is very appreciative of the help the church gave her friend. If you every want to go to the Philippines this would be a great place to come.

Dauis District Missionaries

Making S more's on the beach

It was starting to get dark so the lighting isn't very good

This is a wonderful family. In fact we haven't met any who are not wonderful. They live near the water. The father is a fisherman but has been sick for a while. We were worried about walking on their flooring as it didn't look very strong. But it held our weight and the slats and the breeze from the window kept the home cool and felt really good.

View from the window. Looking out towards Bohol Island. The two islands are very close as you can see from this picture.

Balilihan

Lots of road construction going up the mountain to the Balilihan area. Notice the sign "Stock files"instead of "Stock Piles". We try to always get down from the mountain before it gets dark because these sites are numerous and many are located on curves in the roads and are really quite dangerous.

Once we get to the area of Balilihan you have to go up a short path to the home where we are putting the missionaries. We are putting sisters into the area. The trees are different here. It is almost like a grove of trees.

This is the darling little house at the end of the path. They have beautiful flowers. We moved missionaries back into the house this transfer. We spent all day getting it ready and moving them in. On Sundays they hold church here.

 Everything is cute about it except the CR. These little stools are so short they are hard to use, and I do not squat very good, which is required.

 Dad relaxing after the move in. The arms on the chairs are so long. One of the sisters told us it was so they could rest their legs up if they wanted to.

 Children came over to play from the next lot. A favorite sport of the children. A stick and an old tire. They were  pretty good at it and ran all over the paths with their stick and tire. 

The path leading to another home we visit in Balilhan.

Once you cross this little bridge you come upon this huge home that is under construction. It will be very lovely when finished. Their son who is an accountant in Texas for one of the oil company's is building it for them. She also has beautiful flowers. 

This lovely family makes baskets for a living.

Trying my hand at basket making

Beautiful flowers everywhere. 

Did you know Banana trees have blossoms? The blossoms are used for cooking.

Another family we visit up in Balilhan.The original home was destroyed in the earth quake. Its a new construction and will be very nice when completed. The home is made by weaving bamboo stalks between the steel frames and then they will plaster the outside.

We have arrived

We gave our hair clippers to the Villamor family. Someone will have to finish the job as Noel only started the process of cutting Leri's hair.

 The port getting loaded onto the ferry.

 At the back of the ferry there are cots to rest on. It is only a 3 hour ride but takes 

an hour or more to load

 There are random islands all over the place

 Arriving in Bohol.

 The port was destroyed in the earthquake and this is the new building.

 No groceries except an egg and the cans we came with. So spam 1/2 egg and some beans were breakfast on Monday morning. A better breakfast than the cookies and water we had on Sunday morning. We had chili for dinner on Sunday. Glad we brought some cans of food over with us.

 Welcome signs on the door and house welcomed us.

 A nice apartment complex to live in. The young sister missionaries live a couple of doors down.

 This sight is next door. No wonder they have had problems with snakes in the past. Hope they took care of them all before we arrived.

 Love the sight of this Nipa Hut (house) across the street from us.

 Its garbage day. They come early 3 times a week and ring a bell announcing that 

they are picking up the garbage.

 Our spacious kitchen. Much more room than the last.

 Cute cupboard but it has roach traps in it on all the shelves. 

Not a good sign of the cock roach population. 

 CR and laundry room. Now we can do laundry without getting wet even if it is raining outside.

 Our living room

 Stairs going up to the bedroom. They are narrow steps and our feet do not fit on them 

so I have to walk carefully.

 Upstairs bathroom. The bucket is for flushing the toilet and washing up as they run out of water on a regular basis.

 We have been attending District missionary meetings

 The  missionaries go out to eat afterwards

Zone leaders having keys made to take up to one of the apartments/churches. They visited with the woman at the fruit stand and gave her a Restoration pamphlet.

 We see some wonderful sights as we go around visiting the different areas. The man made forest.

 Helping missionaries fix their bikes.

 I found the national flower. it is very fragrant, smells kind of like Jasmine. I have pressed some and they still smell lovely.

More to follow when we get the internet.