From Recording to Solar Dryers

After a 3.5 hour-long bus ride from Butuan to Surigao City, we finally arrived home! At least for the place we will call home for the next 6 months. We unpacked our stuff, ate supper, and went out to walk around the town. While we were out we decided to visit a friend of  the O’Connor’s, Pastor Eliezer. He has become a true inspiration in my life. Why? Nearly a week after we arrived we went out to a nearby island for his 50^th birthday! What did we eat? About 10 kilos of different types of fish that he caught within about an hour. The amazing part is that he’s a spear fisher. The guy left the boat came back an hour later with 16 fish that he had speared. Then he proceeds to say he didn’t do so good that time. Humility? I think so!! I hope I can do something I enjoy that well when I’m 50! In the midst of that whole week we had spent a lot of time playing worship and trying to get to know people. We started hanging out with a group of Christian guys around our age outside our house and playing worship music. 

A couple days later we took the bus back to Butuan to help our friend Emman record a cd so that he could sell it to raise money for his DTS (Discipleship Training School). 

We were able to record 6 songs and used 5 total on the cd plus another 3 from his friend’s band. It was a lot of hard work but a lot of fun to get to be a part of. The musicians here a very talented so it makes it’s much easier than it could’ve been.

 Immediately following, we took another Jeepne up to the mountains to “help” Casey with his ministry with the Boost. Our goal was to go up to a barangay and help build a solar dryer (super greenhouse) to help dry out coffee and corn almost twice as fast. We got up there and tried our best but we weren’t really able to do much. 10 guys and 2 shovels make things difficult to help with. So once the project was up and running we headed back to Casyklan. On our way back to there we took a motorbike and ended up falling over. Luckily everyone was okay but I thought it was still a noteworthy event. Once we made it to Casyklan we met some Americans from a Nehemiah team that works with Casey at the boost and we stayed with them for the night til we had to get up at 3:30 for our morning Jeepnee ride back to Butuan at 4. I’m hoping to beable to post some video of the Jeepnee rides cause they are crazy! That’s all for now!