Lasts

Our final weeks in the Philippines before we left for home assignment were full of 'lasts'. Last meals with friends. Last meetings. Last parties. Last church services. Lots of lasts and lots of goodbyes and lots of tears. But all those emotional lasts were a reminder that the last five years have been meaningful and rich - and that's what made saying goodbye so hard.

Our last Sunday. Daisy and Ally and their group of friends sang a song together.
As you can see, some sang, some turned around and cried.

We had a yummy meal with our newest neighbors. They fixed us their famous pork barbeque...
too bad we just discovered their recipe as we were leaving!

Our last party with our 'sakop'...all the people who are connected in some way to the Moffit household. They sang us songs, said special goodbyes, then after all the tears, we played games, laughed and ate yummy food.

Our last team meeting. Amay even made us our favorite meal...a whole chicken slow-cooked in Sprite!

Our final meal with our Filipino 'parents'.

The girls threw a final slumber party for their 'sisters'.