On the Move

Yes that's right, we have moved again!

We are still in the same congregation and territory, just a new neighborhood and house.

Our new place is extremely quiet, and no animals, except our kitten Mayson.

Our new landlord lives upstairs and is only here one to two months a year. There is a small house with caretaker and gardener, on the back of the property so we are not alone in the compound.

Hunter has no more rashes or boils since we moved, the animals at the other compound were too many for his allergies. Lorelle is also breathing much better.

We feel like we are in air conditioning here at night, Shelby says she is cold! , we are high up on the hillside, with lots of cool ocean breezes and mountain air from Regent Village that comes through the valley. There are nearly no mosquitos with the cooler air and breeze.

It is still very warm even though it is supposed to be rainy season, the car registered 100 degrees last week. It is typically in the high 80's now, evenings get cooler with the rains.

Service is continuing to go well. Kadi, who works for us and has two year old Jessica, has become an unbaptized publisher, she has already started two studies. Kadi and Jessica are living with us, this new house is huge, we have 6 bedrooms and four bathrooms, a large dining room, huge parlor and big Kitchen. Kadi and Jessica have their own room with it's own outside entrance and full bath. It is bigger than any panbody, tin hut, she has ever had, she has never had running water. We have verandas surrounding two sides of the house, on any given day you can see anywhere from 10 to 50 miles out to the ocean, depending on cloud cover. The kids saw some huge ships pass way out to sea the other day, they used their binoculars to watch.

Last week we had a stomach flu that went through the family, Shelby got it the worse and ended up dehydrated. She was admitted to the hospital for four days of IV drips. She is much better now, and back to her good ole self.

Yesterday Dennis and I were cooking together, the pot handle broke on the pot holding the frying oil, it spilt on my left hand, wrist and up the arm a bit, and burned, it is not as bad as it could have been if the oil had been boiling, or if we weren't so close to water, but sure hurts and will take some time to heal. We were able to easily get burn ointment from the pharmacy down the road.

The Branch overseer and his wife visited the other day, they had never seen the view from so high up, they really enjoyed it. They said that the house is truly a blessing from Jehovah as we can get the rest we need more easily in this quiet community. They also were amazed at how clean the compound is and the wonderful gardens well cared for.

Dennis sold his worktruck in the US last time he visited, a true surprise for us and blessing. As we were now able to purchase a vehicle here, which enables us to get to more outlying territories and to move to this home.

We send our love and greetings to all!
Swifts