Settled In

We have made it to Talisay City and have officially settled in! We arrived yesterday (Wednesday) around 11am; Wayne, Margie (his wife), Shayne (their 4 year old daughter), and Wayne Jr. (their 13 year old son) picked us up in their van that had an awesome welcome banner on it for us! We rode about 30 minutes to our apartment in Talisay City. After unloading our luggage and getting familiarized with the house, Wayne showed us around the city a little bit and took us on errands. We visited his house, which is right down the street from our house in the same "Village," and Shayne's daycare, which is also right around the corner. We went to the mall where we will be buying groceries and our lunch and dinner each day, the bank where we exchanged money, the church building where we will be reading and worshiping, and finally to McDonald's for dinner! We also drove past the internet cafe (where I am right now writing this) and the laundry shop which are in the Village we live in...very convenient! Since internet access is so convenient, we should be able to continue updating the blog regularly! 


We were also able to have our initial meeting with Wayne to go over the details of our schedules for the upcoming weeks. I think we all will agree that we already love Wayne, his family, and this city. Everyone is extremely friendly and helpful with anything we might need. The weather has been bright and sunny; we couldn't have been more blessed with an amazing site! 


Wayne and Margie loved their new camera. We gave it to them at our meeting after we arrived at our house and we could see the excitement on their faces. Through all the errands we did yesterday, 9 times out of 10, you could glance over your shoulder at Wayne and see him testing the camera out or reading the instruction booklet to help him learn more about it! We are so happy that we could do something so small and bring such great joy to his life and his work! Praise God!


We will have our Information Meeting with all the interested Readers tonight at 7:15 where we will introduce ourselves and explain a little about what we are here to do and will then sign up people for time slots to read. As of yesterday, we have 41 interested readers coming to our Information Meeting! 


Since we did not arrive until Wednesday mid-day, we have decided to read tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday of this week. These days would normally be our days off, but we did not want to waste and entire week of our trip with traveling and settling in. I am excited to meet everyone tonight and start building friendships with them! 


Today is a settling in day, since we accomplished all of the basic things we needed to do yesterday. We are trying hard to get adjusted to the time change, but we are still waking up and going to bed a little earlier than we would like. Hopefully by tomorrow we should be well-adjusted. :-) We have taken lots of pictures and will be some of them here so that you can see the things we describe too! Hopefully our next post will be able to have pictures in it. 


We would love to hear from you if you have any questions or if you would like to send us a note of encouragement. Our email addresses are:

Brittiny- brittinycase@gmail.com
Jen- jlgreen2005@aol.com
Kendra- kelley.kendra09@gmail.com

How you can be praying for us: Pray that our Information Meeting goes smoothly and that our first day of reading tomorrow allows us to begin forming deep friendships that will eventually lead to deep conversations. Pray that we are able to overcome jet lag quickly and that we will continue to work well together with any task presented to us. To God be the glory!