Kissy Renovation Photos

Building a sound cabinet.

Balancing buckets of sand. Yes, they walk with them with no hands!

Paint crew of young ones. Some held buckets for hours on their heads so the painters could get paint.

Patient little one, hanging on.

Preparing cook area.

Kissy Renovation has gone very well, it is the first one we have worked on here with the new program. The friends have been so hardworking. Many of the young ones come and work until time to go to school. There are so many children and not enough schools. Most schools have two sessions per day, morning class or afternoon class. They often have lessons on Saturday as well.

It was amazing to see little ones helping carry heavy buckets of sand on their heads. A couple of the sisters came with little 2 year olds, they were well behaved and patient while their moms worked. These sisters came everyday of the project.

Cooking is done outside over a wood fire, the pots we had for cooking rice hold, thirty cups of rice. Each day myself and two other sisters would go to market and purchase the needed ingredients for that days cook. It was fun to learn the new markets. I am learning the names of the different fish and fruits and vegetables. I did see mackerel and catfish and sheepshead fish that we are familiar with.

We are coming into dry season now, so the Mangos are coming to market more, oranges and grapefruits are starting to get scarce as are cucumbers. Carrots are hard to find all the time, and are expensive. We have been able to find large green sweet peppers, a bit pricey but worth it to have something familiar once in a while. Pineapples are amazing, we eat them nearly everyday. We enjoy Pawpaw too. We have a garden area around our home and are hoping to get seeds to plant rhubarb, zuccini, summer squash and other familiar summer food! We have grown some onions and spinach and lettuce.

We are enjoying our travels and getting to know different missionary couples in the country as well as the special pioneers. There were 8 special pioneer couples assigned to Sierra Leone and they are in outlying congregations or groups away from the city. It is a priveledge to see them and we are continually amazed at how they persevere in hard to reach territory.

Last year we posted pictures of our field service experience in Sussex, we are so pleased to let you know that they now have a congregation there. They don't have a Kingdom Hall yet, but they have an Elder and two Servants, about 20 publishers.

Please read the lower posts, I wrote the other one earlier today before posting pictures now and it explains more of our goings on.

Take care, Lorie