Padens in the Philippines

To Our Dear Friends, Family, and Supporters, We hope that this e-mail finds you all well! We have been busy but doing ok here in the Philippines. We continue to plug along in Language School and adjustments, and at the same time travel to different places in order to pick out where we will go this next year. I will share more about that below, but I really wanted to share with you some very interesting and disturbing information about The Philippines and its people. This is not the first time, of course, for Gilmer to be here at Easter time and I have even been here once years ago, but this year was new for both of us. We have included pictures and you are probably wondering why I would send such gruesome pictures to all of you! The fact is that, this is life here and is not abnormal at all. In some of the pictures you might see the crowd, notice the children of all ages that are there. Holy Week in The Philippines is probably the most important celebration of the whole year. We were a...