A week in the life

We have had a very full week on the heels of a couple not quite so busy.  Which is better, too much to do or not quite enough?  I think that Debbie and I would opt for more rather than less.

Cute children unstaged on the way to a lesson.  We taught much more this week than in recently.

A new investigator family Araujo and Nivalina and their children.  They are the very first people that we have taught who have been legally married at the beginning.  Sort of a nice change to be able to spend time teaching rather than fighting the challenging Mozambican marriage process.

We had to leave the city for to find a source of gravel for our island well-project which began officially commenced this week.  This is an abandoned quarry in which local children were frolicking.

We don't have alot of company over in Quelimane.  This is the McDaniel family from North Carolina.  We ran into them during the week and invited them over for dinner.  They are Baptist missionaries and we had a delightful evening with them.  Charming people they were and it was interesting to exchange perspectives and compare lives and missions.

This picture (on the way to Ilha de Idugo) allows you to see the effect of the blight that has devastated the coconut trees and crop of Zambezia.  This was once among the leading producers in the world and it has been reduced to nothing.  Most of the trees are dead or dying.

Well, this is the first week of our chapel expansion project.  I was mighty proud of my low budget effort but I admit to having had a few surprises this week.  Like the recognition by the contractor that he omitted a few critical items from the materials list and miscalculated a couple of others.  We have had to double the number of cinderblocks among other things.  I still have hopes of it turning out well and inexpensive--but we will see.  I suspect that if the overruns get too embarassing I will end up funding them out of my own pocket.

The twins of course.