In the Philippines it isn't Halloween. It's All Saints Day where families gather to pay tribute to their ancestors. People make tons of food, play games, lights candles, and generally hang out--ALL AT THE LOCAL CEMETERY. Missionaries serving in the Philippines use the next weeks' service projects to clean up after the blessed event. (HUGE MESS!) It's pretty cool to witness and actually a lot of fun to clean up! Sometimes graves are emptied and it was always interesting to examine the remains. We were obviously proud of this skull collection! I'm not sure I'd find this as fun as I did 13 years ago, but here's a picture from our All Saints' Day Clean-up 1996.
Jason's the guy on the top in the white hat and I'm on the bottom row second from the left. Good times!Time goes by so quickly--now it's Halloween 2009. And even though things are still pretty crazy, life is good. Very good. All our cute kids in their Halloween duds.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! (And All Saints Day!)
