God's Glory Among the Poor: My Mission of Love: 3 Months!!!

It is so hard to believe I have been here for three months. I know I keep saying that, but it is true every time I speak or write it. It has been a busy third month, including a visit from an award winning missionary... Mary Jane Trinkus. Here are some highlights from this month:

We continued to deliver piglets to the southern barrios of Santa Cruz and Tacla-on. The good news is that now those barrios are up and running, and except for monitoring, they are on their way to new livelihoods!!! On one of our trips, Mary Jane brought reading glasses to give out. She brought 100 pairs with her, and has plans to bring 400 more in February!!

We planted fruit trees and bushes at the charity village sight this month as well. The charity village is on land donated by three Filipina sisters and the Oikos Sisters plan to build homes for the poor people who have no money to buy land.

We visited fish cages in Tacla-on. We had to take a boat to get there. What a beautiful adventure!! Fishermen buy fingerling fish and put them in fish cages under the water. They feed them and the fish really grow big! They then can sell them at the market for much more than they paid for them. In Tacla-on, many fish cages were destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda, and you will never guess who helped the people there by restoring the fish cages... the Oikos Sisters... duh!!

I have seen a lot of starfish in my days, but none as big as these!

Of course, we celebrated All Saints and All Souls Days by visiting the graves of the deceased loved ones of the Oikos Sisters.

I stayed a week at Hin Dang House with Sister Aileen, the scholars who live with her and her dog Chudick.

While staying at Hin Dang Home, I went with Sister Aileen to deliver supplies to build new homes in Bayubay. These two little girls played with me while we were waiting for the supplies to come.