Here is a quick recap of what we have been up to the past couple of weeks:

 

Brian is the campus pastor at our kid's school here in Moshi. This is Brian teaching chapel on Friday last week.

 

 

We had one of Kayden's best friends from school come stay with us Easter weekend. We had so much fun with him and were so sad when it was time for him to leave. It was so funny watching him observe things while he was with us. He kept asking me what lots of things were, for instance he brought me a package of Kleenex and when I showed him what they were for he laughed and laughed. Luka has had an extremely hard life, and yet he is one of the sweetest, most obedient, kindest little boys I have ever met. He thought dying Easter eggs was pretty great too! :)

 

 

On Easter Sunday we had a wonderful service at a church in our town here and the kids did a program that consisted of them singing songs and reciting verses they have memorized. It was so sweet!

 

 

 

 

Lots and lots of work being done getting our house move in ready!

 

 

 

Brian taught some of the youth a human drama that will be performing in school and churches starting this week. They are doing a great job, and the drama is very powerful!

 

 

Brian has preached in three different churches the past four weeks. Just this morning we went up into the mountains so he could preach. The drive up there was actually one of the scariest moments of my life. It is pretty steep in some places and it had rained the night before, so the mud was very slick. We kept sliding backwards and I kept thinking we were just going to roll right down the mountain. It didn't help that we had nine grown adults and six children all squeezed into our car. We were full to the max. Thankfully we made it though, and had a great service with our brothers and sisters in Christ

 

I do not have any pictures of us going to the orphanage we went to this weekend, but that is by far one of my favorite things about being here. I love being able to love on these children who have no parents, and pray over them, that they would feel their Heavenly Father's extreme love for them. I truly consider it such an honor.

 

We are getting ready to head up to our language school two weeks from today. We are very excited for the help with the Swahili and have heard great things about our school. We will travel about an hour to get to it and it just so happens within the three weeks we will be there Brian, Kayden, Emmersyn, and Sophee will all have their Birthdays! So we will have lots to celebrate while we are there! We plan on staying there the entire three weeks and will live on the school grounds.

 

So there is a little bit of an update on lives lately. Along with all of that we are still adjusting to life here in Moshi, and just every day life of being of family of six, with four small children. We LOVE it here, and feel so honored that this is what we get to do with our lives. Thank you all so much your support!