Given that it's been kind of a long time since our last post, I'm going to do a second post the same day!Last weekend, Eric and I visited a Gabonese church that is just a couple of kilometers from the border of the Congo (Congo Brazzaville). Here are some of the cute kids there.
After the service, we decided to walk to the Congo. Here is one of the ladies we met along the way. She was happy to have her picture taken when we asked her permission, and delighted when we sh
owed it to her afterward!These are some of the other folks that walked with us to the
border.We finally made it to the border, a river that separates Gabon and the Congo.
The village where the church was located had just had both wells break that week, so the people were carting water from the river. This lady was very thankful for Eric's muscles.
At our house, we do have running water but to drink it, it must go through the water filter you see in the background (the white containers). The water itself is pumped by an electric pump straight into our house and to the rest of the mission/hospital, so we bathe etc in straight river water. To make ice, pour the filtered water from the bottles to the ice trays and place in the freezer.
Just wanted to report that I pulled another loa loa worm out of a fellow's eye last week.
And finally...our kittens, Pokey and Johnny, are taking after their older role-model, Gentil, in conquering the Eric-mountain (see our older post with the picture of our borrowed cat Gentil doing the same thing!). They're growing up!
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