Day 12

Today ends our brief stay in Legazpi. We spent last night in the cutest little hotel. It had an outdoor pool with frogs jumping all over the place. We checked out at 8:30 and headed to the small airport. We flew out at about 10 in the morning and after a 45 minute flight arrived back in Manila. Then it was onto a bus that would take us to our retreat location. Enroute we stopped at a restaurant for lunch that had a spectacular view of a mountain lake. We arrived at Angel Hills Retreat House midafternoon and got settled before supper. It is a beautiful facility with many gardens, statues and spaces to just “be”. Tonight we gathered for night prayer and our first retreat session with the theme: “What just happened?” We all had the opportunity to share what we had learned about ourselves, how our faith had grown, where we saw God at work and who were the people that touched us. A letter was shared with us that had been written to the group by the recipient families. It was a good day, but we all were ready for bed by the end of it!

Prayer request: For those many remaining needy families who were not chosen to be recipients of one of the houses. That God may send others to help them.

Quote of the day: "I was the happiest I have ever been.Words cannot describe the joy I felt." Landen(Upon describing his experience at witnessing an ordination of a young priest in Daet)

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