Giovanni and Johnathan have been our tour guides and body guards these first couple days.
Body guards you say? No not really, not here in Cebu but here's why it feels that way:
Meet Giovanni
And his brother-in-law Johnathan (on the left). The other two are Edna and Edgar.
Yeah, when walking around with them one can't help but feel, well, small?
It was Papa's (Edgar) declaration to them to drive us around, show us the city and to "make sure they get good rest". To Gio and Johnathan this looks like driving us through the city, taking us to the SM City Mall and keeping us out until 11 pm local time. Of course as gracious a host as Gio is he wasn't done with us yet so he bought tickets to see Robocop. Now earlier in the day, we were having a conversation about food and balut came up. Johnathan proceeds to try to convince me for 15 minutes how good they are and healthy for our bodies (I don't care). So anyways flash forward, headed towards the movie theater Jonathan looks over at me and asks if I'm tired. I say yes and he declares if either Nate or I fall asleep in the movies we have to eat balut. Have you seen balut?
Wow and no thank you. I stayed awake through the movie. Phew.
Here's Nate drinking a frap from Starbucks. Yum.
So yesterday, today and tomorrow are days of rest, and exploring the city with our brothers in Cebu.
Sunday we will be ministering at CCC at both services 7:30 and 9:30. No no that's not a typo. That says 7:30. After, the CCC family has a big fellowship time and then we head to the island of Leyte. We will be there for a few days with Edgar, Gio, and Johnathan delivering supplies and serving a few churches there.
I'm excited we get to go with them on this journey.
Tim
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