Birthday Boy!

Hutch is now 2 years old!!! We had a fun day with him. We started by going to church to church, and after church, 7 people were baptized! Praise the Lord! He had some friends over to play for a few hours, then took a 3 hour nap! He woke up to pizza and chocolate cake! He opened some small presents from us and ate a huge piece of cake, then didn't go to sleep until 9:45pm! He was so excited! Lulie missed the party, she went to sleep about 7pm, so he had ALL the attention! Here are some pictures of the birthday boy.

The Pictures of the Women!

These Women are Awesome

I know I've said this so many times, but these women are really awesome. These women work so hard all day and always do so with a smile on their face! They are such a joy to be around. During their work, whether it's cooking, cutting grass for the roof of their house, or making the floor for the church (the pictures won't upload, I'll try again later) they are having a good time. I love being around them, even if most of the time they are talking about me (I've learned enough to know when they are talking about me and what I eat, how I dress, carry my children, etc.). They are never making fun of me, just talking in general about how I am different. But they always love to teach me. I have made myself the student so many times, even when I already have an idea of the activity, I still let them teach. They are good teachers and they love to show me their culture.

So the past two weeks, they have been making the floor for the church building. The start with this root called kasava, after they have dried and pounded it, they mix it with water. It's like the plaster. Then, they mix it with the clay from the river and make this mud/clay type thing. Then, they get on their knees and spread it all around the floor. When left to dry for a few days, it becomes this hard floor! It was such a joy being part of this simple process. This is what the floors are made of in their houses, which is done by women, so needless to say, they are good at it! I asked over and over to help, but they just told me to watch, they didn't want me to get dirty! I probably would have ended up falling into the mud or something.

I'm just blessed to be a part of their lives, and today when we have Bible study, I pray that they would continue to grow in the Lord and be strong women of Faith!

Life's a Beach

I decided the blog needed a face lift. On the website this template was called Life's a Beach. I liked the sound of that so I made it the background of our blog! We enjoy beach weather all year, and today we just received a new generator for our town, so today feels like a beach day!!!



Here are some pics of the children. Sorry we haven't had too many posts lately, but our power has been bad for 2 months! Now hopefully we are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel!



Ministry is great, James will be going to Katai this week to encourage the teachers and hopefully start a group there. He has also started a study at the area by the river where the people mine for salt! We are praying that these people would respond to the Good News and just like taking the impurities out of the salt, that Jesus would come into their lives and take the sin out!