Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everyone!
I can't express enough how much it means to us to receive your emails and comments on the blog. It is certainly an Easter to remember for us.

Today, I got smart. Ha Ha! I put a note on the door asking all visitors to come after 10:00am. Well at 7:00 am I did hear voices at the door, but they left and came back later. We aren't sure how many people came today - maybe 12-14 again. We once again went through the same polite ritual as the days before. Each one in turn, we chatted about family, the weather, their jobs,etc and then to look at the items each person brought. The whole process took a few hours. But I just can't send them away. Besides I enjoy their company and find it very intersting to talk to them. A number of them support kids going to college in the States. I kept telling them that it is cheaper to put a child through college in Canada!!

Mary (bless her heart) somehow found some lettuce and broccoli for me today. She also brought spinach, onions, bananas, papaya, mango, passion fruit,lemons and limes.
I spent much of the afternoon sanitizing the fruit and veggies (due to the parasites etc that don't sit well with us North Americans) and chopping and cooking a vegetable soup filled with all the goodies that Mary brought. So you see, we are eating very well here. The fruit and veggies don't look nearly as nice as the ones we buy at home, but they still taste good!!

We did another major laundry blitz as usual today, but this time we hung it all under the car port as it POURED rain this afternoon. I am trying to make a few things ahead of tomorrow am as we are going to the sunrise service at 0600 hours and then attending the brunch afterwards at the Ortho doc's house.

It is difficult to describe the community that we are a part of. In some ways it meninds me of when we were in Hay River. It certainly is a different experience than the one we had the last time we were in Kenya. But not in a negative way really, just different. The people here are much better off and better educated.

I really would like to get out again to some more remote villages, but don't know if that will happen this time. I have received an email from a cousin who is working with Samaritan's Purse in North Eastern Sudan. Unfortunately, we won't be able to see him this time. It was great to hear from him and the tremendous work that he is doing there. Our foster child lives in Ethiopia, but we won't be seeing her either.
We have been trying to reach our friend from Northern Kenya, but have not been able to. We really hope to see her before we leave.

So two weeks left, and still some things we hope to
do before the time is up. Yet, still we are at peace that where we are, is in God's plan and will for us.

Will try to attach some more pictures.
Lori