Briant and Clyda Teichert; LDS Charities; Cebu Philippines

Dear Family and Friends,  Week #46 8/7-8/13 We presented three projects, all simple school ones, Fernandez Perez Memorial National High School, San Julian Elementary, and Badlan National High School. They all passed along with several others. The Orencias presented three big wheelchair projects. All three were over $100,000 each, so they need SLC approval. The Haynes presented two large Day Care Center proposals for about 250 Day Cares each, so into the 60-70 thousand dollar amounts. They are very similar to what our Garcia Hernandez project was in the types of items provided. The Haynes just know how to go big. It would be like us having done ours for the whole island of Bohol. It seems most of this week was just spent on developing projects, PDWs, Power Points, DODs and MOAs, etc. On Tuesday evening we had Elder Zayas (from Los Angeles, CA) and Elder Erandio over for Taco Tuesday. It was a good evening. We shared spiritual experiences. Elder Zayas was on exchanges. He is a z...

Dear Family and Friends,  Week #45 7/31-8/6 It has been a real hot week with temperatures between 95-100 and high humidity. It just slaps you in the face when you walk outside. It is like walking into a Sauna. We have been home all week so we have exercised six days in a row. My wife has about killed me off. I saw her checking out my life insurance policy the other day and I think she is ready to collect. The only problem is I’m still upright for part of each day. Last week was the start of quite a few birthdays during the next couple of months. Tony kicked it off, then Brady and Kinley, and then Piper. It is wonderful to watch our children and spouses as they get older and don’t age at all. It is neat to see how our grandkids change a lot in a year as they grow up. It is hard to imagine that Piper is a year old. Clyda sure misses these wonderful grandkids. She is a trooper though and doing great. Thank goodness for technology, and Napoleon Dynamite, wasn’t he the inventor of te...

 

Dear Family and Friends,  Week #44 7/24-7/30 Pioneer Day isn’t celebrated here. Go figure! We had our regular Monday meeting with 6 projects presented. The Haynes presented one for $213,454.65. That is huge and has to go through the committee in SLC. We keep getting told to go big and the Haynes do. The rest of us don’t go quite so big. Especially us. The project is at the division level with 580 elementary schools in the Masabate Division. 3,303 teachers will be involved. 78,103 K-3 students will be the beneficiaries. It is the Haynes way of doing a literacy program. I like it. It is helping the young kids with a proven site word program, the Dolch word list. There are a lot of things that I am worried about. I am worried that a lot of boxes of materials will be dropped off at schools and never used. I’m not sure the teachers will get trained on how to use them. The superintendent says they will. How will we monitor it? I’m anxious to see how this goes. It is now on the table i...

Dear Family and Friends Week #43 7/17-7/23 On Monday we presented our Floro T. Bongco Farm School project to our Humanitarian Team. It was well received. Next to Tres Reyes and My Bonita Home this has been our favorite project. It is on Negros Occidental near Escalante City. They have a huge garden where all the students participate. They want all their students to graduate being able to garden, so they can always have food on the table. FAITH. The vegetables raised are used to feed the malnourished kids and the excess is sent home with them. However, our project is just providing them with all kinds of science lab equipment, so they can do experiments instead of just read about them. They have been great to work with. They have 463 students from grades 7-12. They have 4 science teachers with 3 being members of the church. The teacher we have worked with on this project is Dolly Salazar. Her husband is the stake executive secretary. They have one little girl. Dolly has been great t...