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So life seems more and more normal living in Rwanda. sometimes i can't imagine living in america with my kids. it's weird. that's all i have to say about that. we love the sounds, smells (most of the time), the people, our friends, the food etc....

we finally got our scooter. i absolutely love it. we are so thankful for Ridgecrest Church of the Nazarene in Ridgecrest, CA for raising the funds for us to purchase it. I don't know if they really understand how they have really helped us. The scooter saves us tons of moula in gas. it also comes with free parking everywhere in town and it is wonderful for stress. you can get anywhere really fast. no - i'm not driving crazy fast in it. well just a little. traffic is sometimes bad and you can most of the time get to the front of the line :)!

so life has been a little busy. lots of things going on! God is good and it seems as if we are finally getting back into the swing of things.
in a couple of weeks we have a team coming from lakeland, fl! it is the church i grew up in. we are very excited. luke has a friend that will be coming with the team. he is i think 8?! the team will be building a school. this school is out in a village called Mbare. the whole village is excited and the government is actually helping supply the teachers when the school is finished.

the ONU team that was here in May helped with building a church in Gitarama. this church is on a hill top where they were worshiping in an open field.
God things are happening in Rwanda!

tomorrow the kids and I will be visiting the local nazarene school. it has been a few weeks since we have been able to go so we are ready. between me being sick, the truck breaking down and a conference held here on the mission compound it has been a few weeks since we have been able to read to the kids. as they would say in Senegal.... enchalla! God willing we will there.

my life as a missionary today consists of: finishing up the finances for the mission, doing personal finances, watching our friends children (a missionary couple with YWAM) while they go visit a site for a water project, looking to find milk (the stores near by have been out of the good milk for a few days), looking for mosquito nets for the team coming, taking back my curtains to be fixed (they are not straight), laundry, and all the other stuff of the normal life here in Rwanda. the '"unknowns" that happen so often here are becoming "normal". what i mean is, things happen everyday that would probably make you think "what? did that just really happen?" well those things are more normal than not normal. if a normal day happens here it feels kinda weird. maybe i'm not normal? yeah that's probably it. i admit it!

okay i love all ya'll and remember........ happiness is contagious... eat more salsa!