ant bears

long time no talk huh? lol its been a crazy and hectic past two weeks...since then... we have been in zwedru which is about ten hours from where we started. there we did 5 VBS and 2 Jesus Film Showings. As we went we were given real African names in Crahn. Mine is Decontee which means everything has time. Supposedly its because I was there at the right time. The Other Girls were Poyea and Komona which are forms of blessings. We really enjoyed our time there because of the people. We stayed in a little old ladies house with her grandkids and great grand kids. we loved it there. we called her mama because she officially is our African Grandmother. She helped us wash and cook. Even showed me how to open cans with a large knife and rock. Who needs can openers? haha we loved her though and the crying kids. lol when we left we gave her a bowl of many great items for her to use and she just cried. saddest goodbye yet. oh and witch child lived across the street we are pretty sure. she was really scary. haha. but the spiders stayed away for the most part. the worst thing was a snake got in the house. thank goodness for men being there because we were all freaking out! lol we also got to see monkies while we were there and an ant bear which is kind of like an ant eater. way cool! lol AND TIM came to see us. what a great thing to have a family member visit nd just give us all a bear hug! amazing! our trip back to monrovia was great too. we got to stop in ganta and see little monica and got in at a great hour. plus we discovered an amazing grocery store that is air conditioned and totally american! haha and having pizza tonight was great! but we must go welcome the in coming work and witness team. love to all!

oh liberia

why hello world! a lot has happened since i was last able to post. im going to try and keep it as simple as possible...we left ganta the day after i last wrote. it was very sad because i had to say goodbye to monica and she called me momma as she ran towards me. what a precious little girl. we then stayed the night in a small town called sanniquelle and each had our own room. i was in the honeymoon suite i believe as i continued to find things everywhere!we were not able to show the jesus film because it rained! but we did a radio interview which was cool. literall, they had air conditioning!! haha the next day we did vbs in the town which probably brought over 300 kids! never dealt with so many. it got quite frustrating but possible to handle. and they fed us rice with chicken foot soup on top! ewww...lol then off to karnplay another town. here we stayed with a wonderful family but their babies were terrified of us.lol here we did two vbs and one night of the jesus film. other nights were rained out and our leader left us at one point(please pray about that situation). sunday was travis and my 7 month anniversary! haha im sure you all love to hear that,but im excited!we taught sunday school that day which was fun but not many were there because it had rained pretty hard all morning! we then left for the ds home in Vayanglay. this is probably the most remote place in africa. crazy to think huh. his family is amazing. especially his 5 year old michael! he snuggled with me and jen our last night and told his dad he was going with us to america! precious.but we did a vbs and two nights of jesus film here. it got harder as we went in the bush because most everybody speaks guil. so we often had to be translated. the last morning jen killed a chicken(gross) and they did a farewell service where they gave us wraps for our mothers and material for us to make a dress for us and a shirt for our dads. these people were very wonderful. we then had a ten hour drive to the southeast.you may ask why ten hours...there are no roads. like no pavement...so it was very bumpy and with little food it was very annoying! we were all very car sick by the time we made it to zwedru. we are currently staying in a family home...with thousands of large spiders. they say they wont hurt us...but when they are smart enough to get into your tucked in mosquito net...there are issues to be had. so we will see what happens. the schedule keeps changing but there should be another update soon! thank you for all of your prayers!!!

INTERNET FINALLY!!!

HEY EVERYBODY! I am here safe and sound. it only took about 20 hours in the air and 30 hours total travel! it was very exhausting! we had no trouble finding Rev. Johnson but then it was another hour drive to the place we were staying. once we got there we got peanut butter and bread to eat and fanta! what a great first meal! lol we had to get up the next day at 7 to eat breakfast! very hard and we went back to sleep after to be awoken 2 hours later by Big D our leader I guess you would say! we heard news of a pastor dying in Monrovia so our schedule was changed as to not disturb the mourning. We soon headed to Ganta, a 6 hour taxi drive! very long and we were very squished! lol once we got here we met Reverend Bayou and his wife and they took us to our home. WAY LIBERIAN! we have no running water, we have to pour water in the toilet to make it flush(at least we have one of those, already I had to use a liberian toilet, crazy experience), we bathe with a cup and bucket of water, only have electricity certain hours, and we cook on a coal stove. haha. i came with too many expectations! it has been vvery hard for me to be here but I am trying to make it through. The next day we did a VBS for the first time. It went over very well! and all the children are just precious. :D I already have a little girl who follows me around. Her name is monica and she is 3. I found out just today that as soon as her mother graduated high school she died leaving Monica and her brother. My heart is now broken for my sweet girl who falls asleep in my lap everytime I hold her! The next day we got to go to church! the children sunday school teacher had a motorbike accident(which we rode) so we taught! There were soo many children we were flowing out of the room! but it was great! and we showedt the passion for the first time klast night! it was so harsh for the children but we had not time for response that night. we have also gotten our hair platted(cornrowed) so we are much cooler now. our food is HOTTTT and has fish and rice mainly. thats too say I havent eaten a whole lot, but enough for me to live! Please continue to pray as we leave tomorrow for Karnplay for a week! I love you all!!!

-Dev