Home Sweet Home!

My family and friends have been asking to see some photos of our mission home. I am very humbled by this beautiful home especially when I think of the more humble apartments of our missionaries and very humble homes of many of our church members and investigators. We hope to make this home a refuse for all who enter. A place where good food, good friends, love and laughter are always present.

This shows the big electric gate that opens. The first building is our office, and I will do a tour of that building in another blog. If you don't have a remote control, you must walk up to the fence and push a buzzer. Someone in the office, senior apartments or our home will have to come "buzz" you in. Just a minute ago a man rang the buzzer, he had a bill for us from our Internet provider. Since there's no home mail delivery, most companies send around walking people to give the bill. Every once in a while someone will buzz the gate and they have a letter from their doctor saying that they need medicine, they are asking that we help with the medicine. Usually people are on some sort of official business.


This is a front view of the home, which is about 9 or 10 years old and very well constructed.



This is the front yard. It looks like a golf course. Our gardener, Ronnie, keeps it mowed with a machete. He knows just how to keep the trees and plants trimmed and growing just right. His wife just went in to have a baby and ended up with twins! So he's kind of tired these days. It's been 3 weeks and he told me the babies still think that night time is play time!



This is the beautiful side garden which is situated between our home and the side of the office. Every night we have lots of lizards running here (Nothing bigger than 5 or 6 inches) and there's two big, brown bullfrogs that I see most evenings hopping around this garden.



At the back of our home there is a big wall and a nice steel gate, through the gate is our Cauayan Church building. This picture is taken from the lower parking lot (aka basketball court) and shows the church on the right and our home on the left. You can see how it is nicely constructed. In the early mornings I like to walk around the parking lot of the church. There's an upper and lower lot and it's usually cool enough to have a nice exercise. I often see the office elders, who sprint by me.