Do you have a compassion child in the Philippines? It’s possible that his/her letter passed through our fingertips today.

Today we made our way to the main Compassion office for the Philippines. This is where all the letters that are written by all the compassion kids from all over the country end up to be sorted and reviewed. For about 5 hours we helped sort about a thousand letters written by the kids, it was pretty intense but we didn’t even make a dent in the amount of letters that they still to had to go through! Of course Lynnette turned it into a competition and somehow finished her basket of letters before me (she even paper clipped, rubber band, and put it in country alpha order). Lynnette felt bad for me and ended up working on mine.

We have an even greater appreciation for this organization after seeing the behind the scenes effort that goes into the quality control of the massive amounts of letters that are processed each month. It comes out to over 250,000 letters a month, just from the kids alone, from all the different projects across the Philippines!

Earlier in the morning we had a chance to visit my Uncle who lives here. He just had brain surgery a couple of days ago. He is doing really well, it didn’t even seem like he had any surgery. But we’re still praying for a full recovery for him. On a side note, the hospital they were in was a brand new one that felt more like a trendy hotel than a hospital! It was easily the nicest hospital I have ever stepped foot into (St. Luke’s in Global City).

There was supposed to be a Typhoon that was swinging by, but it just caused some heavy rain for a few hours and stopped. I guess this really is the beginning of the rainy season, at least it is cooler than I had expected it to be.