Overflowwing and then some....

Hello All,

Hope this post finds you healthy and happy. We are still fighting the cold/cough here from the dry air, but nothing serious anymore. All who had malaria have recovered very well. It only takes 1 to 3 days for the medicine to really help you feel better. The Malaria medicine here is for the type of malaria here, so it works fast and is very effective. Also no major side effects. Some of the missionaries here have never even had malaria, some say they got it once and then not again as they then have the immunities in their blood.

Overflowwing and then some... is in regard to meetings in our home. There were 192 in attendance on Sunday! Even the Tuesday night book study is overflowwing. They are now having two bookstudies *one upstairs and one downstairs, starting this week. The new KH is coming along well we hope to start meeting there in February.

Shelby, Lorelle and I will be starting the ASL, American Sign Language course in February. There are a lot of deaf here and even right around our house. We had started with the French group but learned at the district convention that the help really is needed with the ASL. As the French speaking in the area often know English or Krio as well as French, also many of the French that were here during the war time have since gone back to there countries no longer at war. We will all attend the ASL bookstudy on Saturday afternoons. The little ones especially enjoy learning and they really liked singing/signing the songs at convention.

At the District Convention an announcement was made for Bethel Volunteers needed and a meeting for those interested. Shelby attended and later filled out an application. This Monday she went in for her interview and was asked to work Mondays in the laundry with a single bethelite sister. There are many single sisters serving here. This was one of the first things I noticed on my first visit to Sierra Leone. I felt comfortable and safe here, because we know that Jehovahs Organizations would not assign single missionary sisters here if it were not safe.

Last Saturday we enjoyed a Pizza Party, yes Pizza! One of the traveling brothers who works on construction, built a brick oven at Bethel. They are Lisa and Rob, many there in NH know them, they say Hi! The kids all ate a lot of pizza! Hunter especially, he even helped Rob with making one. But not any others cause he was too busy eating :) It is still a major talking point with the kids, they had a great time, Lisa and Rob even showed them line dancing and an Elephant game they learned from either Central or South America, sorry can't remember the country. They have traveled alot the past 15 years.

The puppies are doing well, Shelby is teaching Ludo to listen to her in Mende. Eagle is doing english/english krio. I don't think any of us still speak straight English.

The kids are doing well with their school work. Lyam has really taken off with his reading, he completed 4 small chapter books this past couple weeks. We are so proud of him, it really took him a long time to learn, but seems to really have it down now. He even started some dictionary usage lessons this week.

Three weeks until Dennis comes home..... then time to party, we haven't had icecream since he left, so we will have a treat when he comes. Funny thing, Dennis' favorite is pistachio, and here they usually only have a few flavors in the supermarket, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, mango and pistachio! When we were in ND we had the hardest time finding pistachio, but here it is always available.

Yesterday, Hunter and I walked together to bring Shelby to Bethel, then we walked to the supermarket to refill the water jugs. He picked out a candy pack, I wasn't sure how it would be but we would try it. Low and behold it was just like peanut m n m's,
you can get m n m's here, but expensive, this candy was not expensive and was the same, just from a different country.

We have learned of some who have just found this site, please feel free to read back posts and make note of the post to find pictures that Dennis put on a site. Welcome to all, it is good to have contact with so many friends and family around the world.
You are welcome to send short personal emails to LS2N2@yahoo.com. Short only because sometimes the server here is very slow and we don't want to miss any communications. Shelby and Lorelle would love to receive emails as well as the rest of us :)

Keep warm, all those in the North East! Heard you have had record snows.

May Jehovah be will all,
Lorie