Polony Pizza

Doug and I had the opportunity to get away for a night and head to Nelspruit, South Africa for one night . . . childless!! That in a nutshell is no small task here. It is not like I could call up Nana or Grammy and ask if they could come and stay with the kids or we could send them there. Luckily we have some amazing missionary friends (which are like family here) who piched in to help. Kylea went to school, and Charles and Judy (our neighbors upstairs) picked her up and brought her home. The boys we dropped off with our friends the Allens (another american missionary family here with the Southern Baptists). We had Alice, who is a graduate/intern at the college and church come in the evening to stay and watch the kids. She is from South Africa and the kids adore her.
We got home on Saturday and quickly made a pita pizza for Doug and I since we missed dinner. As I was cutting up the salami (the closest thing we can get to pepperoni), and ham I noticed that the meat had not been opened yet. I asked Kaden what kind of pita pizza Miss Alice made him and he told me "a salami pizza". I thought that was not possible since the package was still sealed when I opened it. I looked in the fridge and noticed that the polony was half gone and asked what the package looked like that the salami came from and the kids told me it was red. When I pulled out the polony they said that was the one, oh I just about gagged!! OK, so polony is a "meat" that the swazi people like here, it is cheap and almost like a loose form of bolony except flourescent pink, yuck! It comes in a tube and you have to cut of the slices. I only have it for our house helper for lunch, if I don't have anything else for her.
So Kaden had a polony pita pizza, and liked it!

Some of our American missionary friends we hang with

Some of the cool MK's the kids are buds with!

So, our container arrived . . . finally. We had a youth ministry in Spokane, WA that raised money for us to take a container back with us to Swaziland. We were able to put some personal things on there, but it was mostly filled with ministry items: shoes, computers for the bible college, nike shoes, uniforms, pencils and papers for schools, etc. It was amazing and fun to watch this thing pull away from us in Tacoma, WA and pull up in our driveway in Swaziland Africa!! Doug could not wait, he had a dream of getting a dirt bike while we were home so he could use it to get out to some of our pastors and communities easily and not have to take the car, since we have one very amazing Speed the Light vehicle.

I also thought I would add some pics of the kids having fun in Swazi,

Kaden skateboarding

















The kids in a jeep given to them by our friends the Baumls, thanks again guys. The kids have a blast riding this thing around our yard whenever they can.














Cute boys in the tub, they are getting so big and love to make mohawks and get their pic taken.

our version of fall pics (in the summer)

Well we are back in the swing of things! Our phone was hooked up yesterday and we were able to get "ADSL" which is "high speed internet" so they say. I am not complaining though it is so much faster than dial up!!!

We are getting into the grove here again. Doug has been working with a team from Texas that just left yesterday, so now I am looking forward to getting some more things done around here, like fixing some of the damaged furniture!!

I am soooo excited for our furniture to get here I can't stand it. It was supposed to arrive by today (friday), but it is held up in Jefferys Bay, S. Africa. I guess there are not enought freight cars to get the stuff here so we will wait another week. When in Africa, smile, God will teach you patience.

The black and white here is of our other missionaries home that we stayed with when we arrived and Kylea in her school uniform.



We did a kids crusade with the TX team and felt like we were back where we belonged. A bit difficult though, as the areas were a little tougher than anticipated. We did 2 crusades that day. The first one I brought Kylea and Kaden with me to do puppets and worship and just interact with kids. The crusade went well but the hand out stuff, not so well. Kids were getting stuff and sneaking back in to get more, so dishonest, it is often frustrating the poverty mentality we deal with here. A lot of people are just out for themselves not concerned with who gets in the way or who may get left behind because of their selfishness. ahhh, Lord broaden my perspective!