Ryan & Abigail

Here We Go! Tomorrow evening (Monday the 11th) our first flight will depart on our journey back to the Philippines. We take off from Phoenix to Los Angeles then from...

Halfway We are now just over halfway through our furlough/home assignment time. We are currently in Canada after having spent the first two months in Arkansas. We will be in...

Happy New Year! January marks 2 years of being here in the Philippines! Christmas in the Philippines starts in September and goes to the end of December so we are...

Super Typhoon Hits Philippines At the end of July a typhoon categorized as a "Super Typhoon" hit the northern region of the Philippines. The high winds along with the intense...

Done with Language Study We are done with our Tagalog language study! We've spent the last 6 months soaking up this new language and culture. It has been a very...

Language & Culture It's been 6 months since we arrived in the Philippines. We have been working to learn the language, culture and to try and integrate into our community. Filipinos...

Getting Adjusted We have been in the Philippines for 3 months now! It's been encouraging to see how far we have come in feeling comfortable here and learning how to...

We're Here!! We made it to the Philippines! We departed the United States on January 19th and landed in the Philippines on January 21st. All in all it was 25...