And so this is Christmas...

A picture record of our Christmas day in Quelimane.

We had the elders over early for a nice waffle and scrambled eggs and bacon breakfast.

This highly color coordinated outfit represents my Christmas gifts from Debbie--capulana pajama pants and a soccer shirt in the colors and design of the Mozambican flag.  She wouldn't let me leave the house.

Debbie's gift to the 15 elders of northern Mozambique was these fine capulana aprons.  They looked good I thought and the elders seemed to like them.

 

WE had a lunch invitation at the new mud home of Amizade and Lourdes.  We were served a mystery meat that still has us scratching our heads.  Our outside lunch was served under a blue tarp in the yard of their brand new home.  The tarp was meant to supply shade which it did but also provided shelter from an enormous thundershower that interrupted our lunch mid way.

Debbie gathering children prior to throwing them down the open well.

After lunch we went caroling--which I am pretty sure has never before been attempted in Quelimane.  We had a good time.

Not content to sing only to the people we visited, the six young missionaries began to sing from the back of the truck as we drove as well.

Never ones to skip a meal, we had the elders over for Christmas dinner in the evening.

After dinner they performed this very authentic reenactment of one of Arnold Frieber'gs famous paintings.