Twins

 

Jameson and James

Remember the commercial on TV a long time ago: "Double your pleasure, double your fun..."? Well, we have a few candidates should they ever decide to remake it.  

Double trouble

 

Rosenie and Rosena

 

Mandly and Mandy

 

Bertho and Jean-Bertho

 

Onal and Onaldo

Kelliya

 

This is Kelliya.  She was baptized this morning.  Kelliya's mother died at childbirth and her father abandoned her immediately after that. Kelliya is lucky to have her aunt who cares for her as though she were her own.  Kelliya smiled through the whole service but the second a camera showed up her smile vanished. 

Public Health

 

Fritzner was up and about very early this morning, filling 5 gallon water bottles for the children's homes.  The kids drink water where they find it and sometimes it is not potable.  This water source was tested and found to be all right so the filled water bottles will go to the house mothers and be available to the children.

 

Here Fritzner (center) sprays the small food depot as one too many cockroaches was found at inspection time.  Fritzner is the Public Health Team leader and they keep him busy.

Normal state of affairs

 

 

 

Three of our five vehicles are out of commission.  Above you see the KIA with its wheel off.  Bearings need replacement I'm told.  And below that is the TOYOTA.  I'm no mechanic but I don't think leafsprings are supposed to hang like this.  The military truck has been decommissioned (get it?) for two months now.  It is too old and battered so it just plunked itself down at LaMadonne and refuses to get up. The roads down here are a challenge and the vehicles suffer the brunt of it all.

Bedside bureau

 

Father Fred who runs the only nursing home in town was impressed when he saw the quality of work our carpenters were producing.  He ordered a dozen of these small bureaus for the folks at St Etienne's Home.  I'm sure they will appreciate these very much.

Andy

 

Andy is now 14 years old.  He is excellent doing somersaults and acrobatic stunts that make me nervous.  He loves to sing, is a good student and works really well with the younger boys.  Andy is fairly quiet and reserved and is not comfortable speaking about himself. You can always count on Andy when there are chores to be done.