Saturday, August 30, 2008

Phew! The End of a Long Week

Hello family and friends! We've had an incredible but exhausting time these past few weeks. We were able to finish two wells down south. I (Jeremy) taught a week of Bible School with Isaac - yeah, you heard that right - Jeremy the theology professor! Ha! I spent a lot of time studying for that let me tell you. I would teach four or five hours during the day and then preached at night! Besides all of that excitement, Rachel joined up with the women's ministry and is loving it. She wears the whole uniform and everything (check out the picture below!) She actually sang a song in Chichewa with them last Sunday. The whole church was so excited to see her up there. I am busy meeting just about every day with leaders from the local church here in Blantyre, as one of our main objectives here is to strengthen this congregation and its leadership as it is an example to many many other churches in Malawi and Mozambique. Here are some pictures (and even a video!) of what we've been up to the past two weeks:





Chasing the kids as the well is completed in a village between Ngabu and Bangula in deep south Malawi on the border with Mozambique. It's hilarious how easy it is to have fun with these guys




We had a ton of fun - and made new friends!





Pretending to be an expert..."yeah...I think it's deep enough...yeah..."





Praise God Fresh Water!!




Some happy recipients of a new well


OK - So no doubt you are wondering where all the cute pictures of Aisha are...Don't worry - here they are - EVEN A VIDEO!!






Helping with the wash




Giving kisses to her favorite Dolly





Ready to play outside!!




Fun in the sun!




Hmmm...can you spot Rach?




A morning date golfing in Blantyre (Rach got hit by golf balls twice! There was a Jr. Tournament playing that morning...oops! We still had tons of fun, and as the picture below reveals, saw lots of monkeys)



Some of the monkeys that call the golf course home. Super cool! If you look close, you will see the monkey on the left is carrying a baby. These guys live wild on the course - just hanging out watching us play!

2 comments:

Linguistica said...

I'm so stinkin' proud of you guys! Thrilled to hear you are having such a good time and are already involved in such cool activities. May God bless you!!!!!!!!!!!! Love,

Jessica

Anonymous said...

Jeremy,
This is amazing work that you and your lovely family is doing. I watched the safari and it is wonderful. I'm so proud of you and so glad that you sent me the info to find your site. Ya'll's daughter is so precious and I know that you will treasure both your family and the work you do.
Take care,
A.J.