And Then The Board Members Came to Check Up On Us!! :)

Lavon Yoder, Ralph Hartman & Roman Hosteler came down Aug 22nd-25th, for a meeting in country. We had a good time with them and they also got some work done. They started to make benches for the new church

The most wonderful man welding! ;)

Lavon sharping bits

 Ralph & Roman varnishing

Ryan & our neighbor girl Lydia

 Me & Lydia

 

 The moon tonight!!

The centipede I found in our house tonight! :( It was dead!! I think the insecticide worked! :)

Ryan walked into the garage tonight and was greeted to this!! :(  He is still alive, but i told Ryan that if i meet him he is dead meat!!!!  (I guess they eat mosquitoes or something like that)

Prayer Requests:

* Tropical Storm Erika is planning to show her face here tomorrow afternoon sometime.  There is suppose to be minimal wind and lots of rain! Pray for safety through that.

* A replacement for the clinic administrators 

         Yall have a wonderful evening 

Two Years Together!

Yesterday marked 2 years since we said "I do"!! With God's help we have been blessed with 2 wonderful years, and hopefully many more!!  We celebrated by going to some places we had never been before. We drove west to Port Salut, and had lunch on the beach!

Our yummy food!!!
 I had chicken and Ryan had fish.

We drove further west, and came to the town of Coteaux. There we went to "500 Marche".  Its 500 steps leading up to a Catholic shrine. The view was beautiful! 

The shrine at the top

looking down


On the way back we stop at a botanical gardens.
It was beautiful!!

The beautiful sunset on the way back home.

We did lots of driving, but it was fun just to be together and see new places!!


Yall have a blessed week serving our King!

Visitors :)

Andrea and Maurita (Ryan's sisters) were here from July 14th - 22nd. We had a very enjoyable time.

 We cleaned a lot! I think they probily got tired of cleaning!!

At least she is still smiling, or maybe thats just for the camera!

A little sick of cleaning eh?! :)

Maurita made us some delicious cookies!! :)

 

Ryan & Rita didnt want a picture taken together! :) 

Rita & Katiana

At the look out over looking Port-au-Prince

A beautiful end to the day

The chicks are getting big!! Ryan built then a nice cage!

Prayer Requests:
*Elections are coming up. Aug 9th is elections for two thirds of the senate and all members of the chamber of deputies. Oct 25th is the presidential election. Pray for peace throughout the country during this time.
*Replacement for Joe & Sara
*The people and the work here

Yall have a blessed weekend

Don't Count Your Chicks Before Their Hatched

We've inherited chicks!! :) Friends of ours had eggs in a incubator and they were going to hatch while they were in the states. They were going to throw them out, but we saved their lives! :) 

One of them starting to hatch

 The fuzzy yellow one was one of the first to hatch, he ran around pecking on all the other eggs! He got the "naughty" title.

There were 23 eggs, and 12 hatched. 

  

Arent they so cute though?? 

Prayer Requests:

The mission board is trying to find a couple to takes Joe & Sara's place at the clinic. Join us in prayer that this need could be fulfilled. 

Praise God, we have been getting a good amount of rain. The clinic and Milords (our pastor) have not been getting much. Continue to pray that it rains especially at the clinic and Milords.

Pray that we as a mission could continue to be a light in the community here.

I hope yall have a wonderful week

Getting fish, NICU, & spending time with friends

 We were able to get fish!!!  Since its been raining, the water started  coming to the house again!

We got 50 to begin with, to make sure they would make it up the mountain alive. So far none have died!! :) 

So hopefully we will be able to soon get more. 

We plan to use to fish manure water to water the plans in the nursery. 

I was able to spend May 27-June 2nd in Indiana. 

I went to spend some time with a friend that has 

a baby in the NICU.

Meet Aubree Faith Newswanger. She weighed 1 lb 13oz at birth, April 24th.

Her twin sister Alexis Hope was 1 lb 5 oz.  She lived through
the night before going to be with Jesus.

Isnt she just the cutest?? She weighs 3lbs now!!

Emma,  her wonderful mother, and I.

It was so good to see her again. It had been a year!

One of Aubree's nurses. 

She has good days as well as bad. If yall think about it she could use prayer. 

I flew back June 2nd, Landon Martin came with me. He will be helping out at our mission.

It was wonderful to see my husband again!! :) 

I hope yall have a blessed week!