Last week on the other side of the world..

     Last week was a busy one, since it was transfer week, we had to travel on the weekend and we had a wedding as well.  True to form, the wedding, which was supposed to begin at 10am started an hour later, since the bride and groom didn't even get there until 10:30.  Nobody but the Osborns seemed to give it a second thought.  We took an idea from another senior missionary blog for our weekly youth activity.  The two Elder's in charge led a  great group discussion on the scripture in Ephesians about putting on the whole armor of God.  Last Saturday we had our monthly Women's meeting, where we had about 10 sisters.  It was a nice hour together.  We put on good training in Nampula as well this weekend.  The drive was spectacular, the mountains silhouetted  against a perfectly blue sky and everything was brilliant green from all the rain.  It is one our our favorite drives.  Thanks to a big Chinese backed road project, we drove on actual paved roads most of the way.  And then of course, the wonderful hotel showers with real water pressure.....ahh, heavenly.
     Here are some fun pictures to pique your interest about coming to visit us before we leave in 5 weeks!


Toby has done a really nice job with his wedding sermons here in Quelimane.



It is amazing to me that these hot-pads look just like the patterns my friends sent.
Some people have such natural artistic talent.

My dear friends, Mary and Dianna, sent me Sharpie paint pens and hot pads for the
women to decorate at our women's meeting.  In Port. the hot pads are called "pegas".
I think most women will hang them on their walls and continue to use old capulanas to get
hot pans off the charcoal.  They really enjoy creating!

As always, everyone claps after Toby invites the couple for their first kiss as
husband and wife.



This is the whole family.  On the right is Julio's mother, on the left, an aunt.
His two brothers are next to Julio, then Debra in Jamie's arms, Issa in front
with Nofre and Paula.



The youth are great the world over.  Tinoca enjoyed being "dressed" in the
armor of God created by the other youth.  They had so much fun cutting pieces out of
a big box we saved from a bulletin board.

You can see this was serious business!



This is Elder Gray and Joaquina.  She is a hoot!  Her family lives very close to the
church and attends regularly but has the usual problem of not being married and
having little money.  I gave her a lot of my old clothes the other day and often
see her in my shirts that were too big.  Need I say more!!!



This is the Relief Society president in Nampula.  I trained the leaders on ways to vary their teaching styles.
This is my favorite activity; I gave them each two pictures and had them write a two minute lesson
using the pictures.  It really opens their minds to new teaching ideas.



It almost looks like Maui, don't you think?



French cuisine anyone?