Wordless Bibles

These are the kids coming to Sunday School nowadays! Maurina, in the background with the headwrap, is bringing two of them, who are her neighbors. The Sunday I took the picture we learned about how to ask Jesus to be your Savior using the Wordless Bibles that the kids at Metroeast Baptist Church in Wichita, Kansas made for us!! Thank you mission kids!!!! Each child took one home to share with their family how they too could know Jesus as Savior. Madylanne is holding hers up. Notice not many of the Lozi children are smiling...guess I need to add some humor to our lessons! No, really the reason is that here children are taught not to smile in photos because taking a picture is a serious thing. Isn't that interesting! Anyway, we are so grateful to the kids at Metroeast for making these Wordless Bibles for us to be able to share Jesus with the kids here in Sesheke!!!

Cockle Doodle Doo!

This is McQueen the rooster in all his glory (Madylanne named him, can you tell). :) He was given to us as a gift last week by the assistant DC (like the assistant mayor). We were going to eat him because we didn't think he would make it long in our yard with our two German Shepherds, but since Madylanne said she wanted to keep him "forever" we decided he could stay. He starts cockle doodle dooing at 4 am! Now he has two hens to keep him company in what used to be the dog pen. It's the chicken hutch now!

loving life

Love this shot of Madylanne and Matthew! I just took it last week. Madylanne is proudly wearing her new Jayhawk shirt from Grandma and Grandpa. Matthew loves to be anywhere close to her!
Madylanne is holding a tiger fish that Dominik caught in the next picture. Under that are the 22 cucumbers we picked from the garden! Thanks Betty, for your recipe for refrigerator pickles, yummy! And last of all are photos of our banana tree, which has bananas on it. We have been eating them all week. They are short and stumpy and SO SWEET.

Having fun with Taylor

Ok, we ALL had a great time in Gaborone with our dear friends, the Turners. However, just looking at these photos gives you a glimpse of who may have enjoyed it the most.... :) Madylanne just loves Taylor SO much. Even now that we are back at home Taylor is a part of her daily topic of conversation. These two are buddies for life. We love you Taylor!
And we love you, Brent, Amanda, and Bradyn. Thank you for making our week of vacation so special! The next few blog entries show all the fun things we got to do together over the week.

the boys

Look at these handsome boys! Matthew and Bradyn got along famously. And Matthew loved the soft grass as well as Bradyn's swing. Thanks for sharing, Bradyn!

Poor little Pumba

Just kidding! This warthog was NOT little. And he was quite tasty! Nice job, Mark! He and Brent had fun hunting one day while we were in Gabs.

More fun with our friends

Here we are having a bonfire with another missionary family, the Warners, at the Turner's place on Friday night. Look at all these kids! fun was had, lemme tell ya. They loved roasting marshmallows on the bonfire!
Madylanne and Taylor had so much fun climbing the tree out front at the Turner's house. And Aunt Amanda gave them both a pedicure. ooh la la

African wildlife

On our trip to Botswana, we got to see some African animals...we saw this older giraffe (we learned that they get darker spots when they are older!) in an animal reserve close to the Turners and the elephants we saw in Chobe Animal Reserve as we drove through. It's always so fun to see elephants as you drive!

Dominik is baptized!

Dominik did not want to wait to be baptized...he finished his three sessions on baptism and said, "Let's do it in the river!" So here he is, supported by his family and friends, following Jesus in the waters of baptism. Praising God for this glorious day!
After the baptism we went to Dominik's house to fellowship.