marayan sheets christmas videos

the Christmas videos are finally here,we've been so busy with stuff that i didn't have the time.
well its done,i think it turned out pretty well since it was in dark lighting.
we had a great time as you will see in the videos,they said it was the best family Christmas party
ever.well I'm glad and happy for that.theres 11 videos in all,the link is here to see the rest.
enjoy.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines
http://www.youtube.com/user/marayanchristmasvids

vila de mercedes open house

we went to a very nice and or rich neighborhood open house,its on the side of the mountain as you can see,with a great view of the Davao gulf.
and its nice there because its cooler and there infinity swimming pool is awesome.you can get a house there starting at only 6million pesos,or a 120 thousand
American.that's not actually bad if you got the money,but we don't got the money.its nice to look though i guess.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/VilaDeMercedesOpenHouse

crash landing resort

we got invited to go to a resort by ken and Ella.the resort is owned by Ella's work mate,they built the resort after they found 2 gold bars on the property,from the second world war.
they say that there are gold bars hidden all over the Filipino islands when the Japanese were here .
we had a great time,great food ,and great people.and the resort was very nice to,fresh spring water being pumped into the pool.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/CrashLandingResort

kids internet cafe

we were supposed to do the Internet with all the kids on Christmas eve,but you know how Filipino time goes,way later than we thought.
so we had some of them over on the next possible day that we could,so they could play there games and update there friendster.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines
lhttp://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/KidsInternetCafe

marayan and sheets christmas party

happy belated merry Christmas.we've been so busy i haven't had time to update the pictures.
we had a great Christmas party at the house with the whole family,we think 35 plus in all,in our tiny house and yard.
it was a great time,great people,and excellent food.wow ,that was a lot of food and gifts.and they had to play games
to get half of them.it was a excellent time.
and of course the Internet and Internet phone so they could talk to there brother in the USA ,who just had a new baby
boy not to long ago.and of course theres new baby's here,so they were showing and comparing kids.they were on the
Internet phone for 2 hours.i thought the battery's were going to die,but it made it.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/MarayanChristmasParty
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/ChristmasParty

all nations church christmas party

all nations church christmas party
what a great day,great church,great people,and of course good food,i mean munchies.
they had many games as you can see,nida had a great time participating.
the next day she felt it though,she had muscle pain,but it was worth it.
this is davaos school for the missionary's kids.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/AllNationsChristmasParty

nidas solo at church

nida sang a solo number for morning service.then at night they had matina baptist christmas cantata.
it was a long day sunday,but she made it.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/NidasSolo
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/ChurchChristmasCantata

matina baptist church christmas cantata practice

matina baptist church christmas cantata practice

yes,more practicing,more cantatas,more eating,etc etc.yes they asked nida if she could at least sing one solo number for the cantata at matina baptist church,her family's home church.
as you can see her sister denah behind her is sleepy,its been a long day,week,etc.
also if you've never seen it before,they like to do the black light and do the hands show.its a nice show if you've never seen one done.
and last but not least, her best friend ella ruth, in the dark blouse is doing much better after almost having both of her kidneys shut down.god really does answer prayers, we and she didn't think she was going to make it she was so bad.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/MatinaSongPractice

nidas niece useing the computer

From matina song practice

nidas niece using the computer,
she went shopping with the whole family for christmas gifts.nimrod, her brother from the usa,was the sponsor for that.
and then her niece luv luv helped nida get the stuff home.and then she got to update her friendster with pics from the picasa
picture sites we have for the familys.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines

christmas cantata

christmas cantata,at leahs new church here in mintal.
they asked nida if she could at least sing the solo part,because they know she is so busy, that she just has time to practice for that.
it was a good concert good food good people.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/CristmasCantata

doble kara

doble kara is dressing up half man half woman,then they have to sing males voice and then switch to female voice.they do it to have fun.
and its not even halloween.thats nidas brother in law joseph.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/LeahTeachersDay

kids haveing fun with the camera

kids having fun with the camera,nidas brother bought them a family camera,meaning if the family wants to use it they can.so for a couple of days they enjoyed poseing ,poseing.heres the links.

http://picasaweb.google.com/denahbenton/DenahKidsPlaying

http://picasaweb.google.com/leahprovida/LeahsKidsPlaying

the mountain people

the mountain people,
every year the mayor brings the mountain people to the city for christmas.they get money, food and clothes from the mayor and from the people.we have some staying in our little town at the local gym and park,as you can see they shower and do the washing of the clothes in the local river.
nida said this is the most shes ever seen,i said maybe they need to stop having babys,she said theres nothing to do in the mountains when it gets dark so they have extra curricular activity's when it gets dark.
andrew and nida sheets,mintal,davao,philippines

himig singers concert

we went to the himig singers concert last night and it was great food and a great concert.we were the representatives for the himig singers that now live in the usa.
nida also used to sing for them for one year,her brother sang with them for many years.but he now lives in the usa,and is working on getting his own little group of himig singers going there.
the himig singers are known world wide in the singing competitions,they have won many times.
last nite was a christmas theme and do you know jesus theme,it was very good.they are mainly known for acepella singing .the link to all the pictures is here,
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/Himig
andrew and nida sheets ,mintal,davao,philippines

virus infected computer

ken has been here only 6 mths,yet he has had major computer problems 4 times now.and this is where i come in,like ive stated before,my family is helping me,so i am helping others.even expats,because its true,we are not all rich.
and more than half the the time the service techs here did not fix his computer and steerd him wrong, and overcharged him for what they didnt fix in the first place.
i will admit,the last time i had his i couldnt get it reformated.well come to find out one service techs found out that another service tech just sold him the wrong memory chip and thats why it was throwing errors.
so that was half the problem,and i just figured out the other problem wednesday.his hard drive is so messed up i had to use linux to reformat it into a linux format,and then back to a windows format.and now finaly it worked like a charm,no errors.
remember like mom always said,it takes all kinds of people to make the world go around.meaning we all have a diferent job in gods world.we all cant be preachers,somebodys got to specialize and fix the computers.
even jesus was a carpenter first.
andrew and nida sheets ,mintal,davao,philippines

leahs open for business

Neda's sister Leah has just opened for business,it was her grand opening party.she will have a booth/ store, selling fruit flavored drinks to start with.and then possibly expand into selling plastic bags of all sizes.so basically whatever they can do or sell to make money.i hope it works out for them.
and yes i help them with there computer to,they bought it from me at less than cost.they have a lot to learn on it,but are fast learners.like the boys have learned you can play a lot of games on it.and yes i help them with that to.i just upgraded there virus software and got them the video of the the Manny pacquiao fight,and put the pictures from the grand opening on there computer.
so it was a busy day,everybody wanted the Manny pacquio fight,so i was running around getting it to the family and friends.even though i don't think it was worth watching,because Dela hoya didn't fight.
Andrew and Neda sheets,Mintal,Davao,Philippines
ps,heres the link to the pictures
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/LeahsOpening

our friends arrive

our friends arrived,after not seeing Pete and Adelfa for 2 years,we finally get to see each other face to face.
so here's the quick story,Pete is my best friend in AA.and when he met my wife Neda,he was so impressed,he said i want to marry a Filipino to.
so we set him up on the same christian web site that me and Neda met on.
and the rest is history,he met his great wife Adelfa.and we've been friends ever since.
the other lady there is Flossy,that's Adelfa's sister visiting from Australia.they like to travel the world together.and they have finally traveled to Davao.
they were hesitant at first because of all the things they heard from there friends,but now that they've been here,they agree with me,its a great safe place in the Filipines.
Andrew and Neda Sheets,Mintal,Davao,Philippines

bible study

bible study was a great time.good people, good food,nice house,and of course,good bible study.
peter bollant the pastor is a good preacher and a nice guy,his whole family is good people.

and yes of course computer work here to,i had to check there internet speed.its only 500 k download speed,and thats 5 people on the computers.thats not enough.then one computer mite need some work,they just got the sowar virus,its nasty.even though you kill it ,it has already messed up youre files and system.basicaly you need to reformat youre computer,and start all over again with good virus software and firewall.the virus here is really bad ,so many people afected.
till next time thanks or reading,
andrew and nida sheets ,mintal,davao,philippines
http://picasaweb.google.com/andrewbsheets1/BibleStudy