Ian's 11 months old

I really cannot believe that 11 months have passed since Ian was born.  I'm including some recent pictures including a PA liscence plate that I saw on a road grader in our village here in Guinea, West Africa. 

A few other notes of interest...A chamelian that Aidan caught.  The day after he got it it shed it's skin.  There's the picture of the small animal.  It's a genet and we could have had 2 for pets, but we passed this time.

 

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More dorm weekend pictures

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A fun dorm weekend

Normally most of our dorm kids go home every weekend.  They all live within an hours drive away.  This past weekend we planned some fun activities and all of them stayed.  Friday night they had a youth group event which we're not involved with.  Saturday morning Pete and some of the guys got up early and went fishing, with no success.  Saturday afternoon we went for a bike ride to a river and had a picnic and swimming.  Saturday night we watched a movie with the projector and ate popcorn.  Sunday morning we made donuts and had some singing and praying time together.  It was a really fun weekend.  Enjoy the pictures.

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Peanuts

Have you ever seen peanuts like this before?  Our Guinean friends are harvesting their crops including peanuts right now.  Last week Pete got to go work in a friends field one morning and returned with this bunch of peanuts.  I'm so often reminded of how much physical work the Guineans do to make a living.  "By the sweat of your brow," comes to mind.  We westerners often take so much for granted.  Pray for the Guineans we know that they'll have an interest in the Gospel and that there will be a Spiritual harvest.

 

We're doing pretty well.  Last weekend we had a but going around, Pete had a bad migraine and fever and Faith had a 24 hours stomach bug.  Our kids and the dorm kids have had colds but overall we've been healthy.

 

Rainy season is winding down and we're getting some really nice rainy nights.  I'll certainly miss them when dry season is here.  It's hard to believe that Ian is 10 months old.  It doesn't seem possible.  He is a happy fun little guy.  He pushed up and stood briefly on his own today.  He's eating all sorts of things and loves to have fun.  The Guineans love him, especially because he's so chubby.  Last weekend some of our coworkers from a few hours away were in the guesthouse for the weekend.  Their kids are about the same ages as Aidan and Eli and they had a great time together.  Daniel helped Aidan make a bow and arrow.

 

Continue to pray to pray for Guinea as things are politically tense.

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fall break

Our internet was down for about a week so that's why we haven't posted anything.  It's been a crazy week.  We're nearing the end of rainy season and we get some pretty strong thunder/lightening storms.  Our freezer and fridge are both down due to being 'struck' or something.  Several others freezers were also affected.  Anyways...thankfully we can use an empty freezer at our mission guesthouse which is a short walk away.  We're just using our fridge as a cooler and freezing ice bottles to put in it once or twice a day.  Sure makes me realize how much I appreciate these convieniences.  We hope to get parts ordered an maybe DHL them here if we can.  Otherwise we'll be waiting a few months for them to arrive on a boat.  Thanks for your prayers concerning this.

 

Over a week ago we had a week of fall break.  Originally we planned a trip to Conakry, the capital city for some shopping and for Ian to get some shots.  Unfortunately we weren't able to go but spent a nice quiet week at home.  I always have a to do list that's way too long but we did get some things done as well as some relaxing.  The kids love to go to the, marigo, the river to swim.  We all went down one day and had fun.  I also took some time to go on a nice long bike ride with the kids which was good since only a few days later Eliannas tire popped.  We probably won't be able to get another tire/tube the right size.  For now she and Aidan are sharing a bike.  It's working out pretty well.

 

Here's a couple pictures from fall break.  There's also a picture of our dorm kids.  They did an oral report for history on different regions of Africa.  They are all dressed in outfits from those regions.  Also a picture of some fresh produce that we got when some friends went to Conakry.  Of course we can't forget the important stuff...Ian is 10 months old today.  He has a cold as do several in our family/dorm.  He's doing well though...he now claps his hands and can feed himself using the pincer grasp.  He said mama last week and is able to crawl very well and walk around furniture.  He's also getting adept as crawling/worming out under our couches from the living room barricade we sometimes put him in.   

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What a week

This has been a very sad week for the Landuma village here.  In the span of about a week there have been three deaths.  One woman was on her way out to the fields to work and was bit by a snake and died.  Another man was one of our guards who is a middle aged man, he passed away after being very sick for several months and just yesterday another woman died.  Pete was able to go to 2 of the funerals.  What can i say but hopelessness.  Today after the third death for the sacrifices at the funeral they were making bigger sacrifices, perhaps trying to appease the spirits so that no one else dies?  These people are Muslim outwardly but still hold to animism.  Pray for them, pray that they will see their need for a God of grace.  Pray for the missionaries and the few believers that are here.  Pray for us that we will free up those in language study and translation and that more will come to know of Him.

 

The pictures are of some boys that have been coming by lately to play and they always grab Ian.  When you have a baby, especially a white baby everyone wants to hold him.  A believer from another village that we work in came last week and brought us some of the first of his peanut crop, what an honor.  Lastly is our laundry lady who washes clothes for the dorm kids.  She has/is listening to Bible lessons on tape with some other women but we don't know where her heart is.  Pray with us for these people.

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testing

I'm trying something new with posterous, hoping to be able to update my blogger blog through them.

We'll see how it goes.  Here are some recent pictures of us grinding grain so we can have wheat flour and on a hike to fine a river to swim in.

Enjoy.

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