Category: Family

Late last night Elias came into our room telling us his head was hurting. By early this morning he had the accompanying HIGH fevers and body aches that malaria brings. We started him on treatment and he has been responding well. By this evening he was already asking to get up and do some serious […]

Our neighbors have all been busy having babies lately! Literally, almost every house around us has a newborn in it now! 🙂 Callie is thrilled! She loves to go with me (Elin) to visit them and talks about them according to their characteristics (the short fat one, the one with all the hair, the one […]

After many hours of work over several weekends our partner Francois got our well fixed. Thank you Francois! When it quit working a few months ago we thought it would be a quick fix, but it turned out to be a long process. Praise the Lord with us that the well is fixed.

Did we mention we have a lot of mosquitoes where we live? I (Phil) took a picture of the wall of our house the other day at about 7 in the morning. You can see how many mosquitoes (the little black dots) are sitting on the wall. All around our house it was like that. […]

You can be praying for Elin. She is suffering these days with what started as a bad cold and has resulted in a bad back! She caught a cold a month ago with a bad cough. Just when the cold was getting better the cough worsened and one day she felt a pop in her […]

The rains have come and the days are overcast and wet. Periodic showers happen throughout the day and the mosquitos are out in force! This particular area that we live in has bad reputation for mosquitos. The fact that we have swamps on both sides of the little ridge we live on might contribute. Whatever […]

For a month now, Elias has spent the afternoons staring out the window saying, “Where are all my friends? They aren’t coming anymore to play soccer!” For the last month all the little boys around his age have been off in the Bush undergoing initiation rites. We won’t go into details as to all that […]

We had another crew working on our well over the last two days. They were able to remove the bad blocks the previous crew had used and build up the walls of the well with better bricks. Now we have to wait for the agitation in the water to settle and we can reinstall the […]

Two steps forward. Three steps back. Sometimes that is how it feels when dealing with our well. A crew finally showed up to work on the well after 2 months of waiting. They spent Thursday trying to fix it but ended up only making things worse. We hired the crew to build up the walls […]

Dad has been seeing a lot of sights since he arrived in Mozambique. We have been attending a lot of events happening in the community. Dad has even been learning a few basic greeting words in eMwinika. Even when he has no one to translate for him people still try to carry on long conversations […]