Our First Blog Post

We arrived here in the Philippines on March 2 two weeks ago.  Since then we have had lunch with the Cardinal of the Philippines, met the Bishop of Cagayan de Oro, and Fr. Joe the parish priest of Sagay.  Fr. Joe has taken us to swim at the Sto. Nino cold springs, to the city of Mumbajao, and all the way back to Cagayan to get some supplies to set up our house.  We have to ride a ferry to the main island called Mindanao where Cagayan de Oro is.  On our first ferry ride my dad and Meredith prayed that we would see dolphins.  Their prayers were answered!  We all got to see at least 10 dolphins! When we arrived at the Holy Rosary High School in Sagay, Camiguin, the students performed a welcome dance for us.  The music was the Camiguin theme song.  Then we went to Fr. Joe's house where the Holy Rosary Church parishioners had our dinner waiting- a whole roasted pig, and many other delicious foods.  After our meal we went to our one room cottage that's right next to the sea.  We will be staying there until they are finished building our new house.  It will even have a real chapel inside!
We'll write more later.  God Bless!