Midwinter report

We had President and Sister Kretly back with us today in Quelimane. We had a great visit with them and got to know them a little bit finally. We made good use of them and had them speak in church then also teach a combined youth and adult class, then have an inspirational/motivational session with our small group of members (only 12 of the 85 in attendance today). They then had lunch with us (chicken burritos) and spent the rest of the afternoon teaching and training the missionary force of Quelimane (of which we are a part). They are very talented and inspired folks and our fears for incompatibility were easily put to rest. We have of course been interested to know if our new President had a new or different vision for our service in the second half of our mission--basically, if what we have been doing be what we would continue to do.  I didn't get the feeling of dramatic imminent tectonic shifts in store for us.  I must admit, as one who learned to speak Portuguese in Sao Paulo, Brazil, listening to them speak Portuguese with their Sao Paulo accents is like music to my ears--truly a delight.  They are so very comprehensible compared to the typical Mozambican.

These are the actual members of the church in Quelimane, with President and Sister Kretly--minus just a couple or three who were travelling.

We saw a couple of interesting things in our ramblings the past couple of days. The first was a group of girls gathered about doing some kind of game/dance/competition. School was out for the week and here is what it looked like:

There was a graduation from a local college this weekend. As any who have read this blog for a while know, bike taxis are used for everything here.

I'm sure with a little effort, this guy could have fit four more children on his bike.

And we never weary of the twins, who we sort of think of as our local grandchildren (and they really do look alot like Debbie).