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Ok, so we don’t celebrate Halloween over here but everyone else is sending around cute photos of their kids in costume, so I’ll post this one of the boys as pirates. Those teeth on Ben just crack me up every time I look at them! There was a little girl at Toby’s school who toldContinue reading “Not Halloween – originally posted 11/5/08”

Well, as we shared the news of our new president this morning with various Mozambicans, there wasn’t much interest.  However, when we told them that the new American president was a black man, it was amazing to watch their faces.  A slow grin crept over them, ending in a beaming smile.  “Wow!”  many of themContinue reading “Obama the President – originally posted 11/5/08”

Who doesn’t love a puppy?  They are so sweet and cute and fluffy and they smell so nice.  Here is a photo of our little 6 -week old girl.  We are still deciding on a name for her.  She is quite a contrast to our hulking dog Spotty (pictured in a previous entry) and willContinue reading “Our New Addition – originally posted 10/31/08”

Pictured here you’ll see two sizes of eggs.  The “huge” ones are actually normal sized ones, like you’d find in your grocery store.  Those are the eggs from our chickens. The teeny white ones were given to us on Kevin’s trip out to Lilini (see his blog), as a gift.  They usually don’t feed theirContinue reading “Which came first? – originally posted 10/21/08”

Here is a photo of Kevin holding up two of the new springs for our LandCruiser.  Some of you people out there who know about cars will be impressed by how huge these things are.  For those of you who aren’t, I’ll just tell you that these are massive springs!!  We broke two of ourContinue reading “Car Parts Across the World – originally posted 10/21/08”

Last week, Kevin went to visit the Maratane refugee ‘camp’ 20 kilometers outside of town.  You can see it pretty much looks like a village, with the exception being that there is not much growing. The soil out there is pretty bad, which is probably why the camp is there, although it is said originallyContinue reading “Visiting the Refugee Camp – originally posted 10/15/08”

Last week, up north where our colleagues are working in a mostly Mu$lim area, the wife of one of the church leaders committed suicide.  Apparently she believed that he was cheating on her somehow.  Our long-time colleagues here in Nampula explained to us that, if she believed that someone had cursed her, causing this misfortune,Continue reading “Momade – originally posted 10/15/08”

I would just like to say a few words about Carol Nauta.  Passionate.  Committed.  Do-er. I didn’t know Carol very well, but those were the things that I really noticed about her. She contacted me via email a few months back to let me know she would be the liason between one of our supportingContinue reading “Carol – originally posted 10/10/08”

We acquired a Great Dane last year from other missionaries, named Spotty. A 3 year old male, his massive stature is quite impressive to all of our neighbors and visitors!! If anyone wanted to find our house, they just had to ask a passerby where the giant dog lived. In an area where crime isContinue reading “Goodbye to Spotty – originally posted 9/27/08”

Toby started first grade this week. We are all rather relieved, because he sure was bored during his vacation. Portuguese preschool (actually kindergarten) ended in July, and he ran out of things to do long ago. One of his favorite pasttimes lately has been pestering his younger brother, who alternately screams with delight and withContinue reading “Toby Goes to School – originally posted 9/18/08”