Mission Team Visit #1 (yep I am that hopeful)

Today the first mission team to visit while I have been serving here as a full time missionary boarded the plane home.  From their comments they all had a wonderful time, saw and participated in some amazing things.  Many expressed interest in coming back or staying connected with the ministry in the future.  I hope to recap…

Happy Independence Day (in the USA)

Sorry about not  posting last week but I am pretty certain no one wanted to hear the details of my stomach problems or how many times I had to go to the bathroom all week.  I did get some amazing sleep in:  at least two full days I barely crawled out of bed.  Fortunately all…

Painting the open latrine

So lately I have been painting the main latrine {called a choo here (one friend likes to point out that choo rhymes with go)} for the site.  While many of our buildings are in need of paint this one was starting to show damage due to the poor quality of the paint so it was…

That is a lot of paint!!!!

This has been a full week and many things I think are worth sharing both from the standpoint of what it takes to do things here or slightly humorous. So basically this will more than likely be a long blog.As I mentioned a couple of blogs ago, I will be moving out to the site to live…