Goings On

We have been busy with school activities and, you guessed it, language. Here is the latest: Faith turned 8 and celebrated it with 11 girls from her class. We had a "Princess Picnic" birthday party at the house. It was a lot of fun.

Zach competed in a middle school "Petites Poteaux" tournament (soccer inside a concrete court - kind of like indoor soccer played on concrete). he also went on a middle school outreach where they painted a wall of a local hospital and cleaned the trash out the ditch in front of the wall. The kids did a great job and it looks great! This weekend Zach is on the middle school retreat.

Luke competed in a handball intramurals (like ultimate frisbee with a ball) for the last two weeks. Luke playing and enjoying the handball tournament is an answer to prayer. He has not connected as much with the kids in his class because most of them love playing soccer at lunch and after school. Luke's favorite memories of soccer in Youngsville are generally the snack after the game each week. So, he tends to hang out with all the younger kids. He is really good at entertaining them, but we also want him to connect with kids his own age. When he signed up for this, we were excited. The first week he didn't enjoy it because no one passed it to him, but this week he was aggressive and active and he did great. He scored 2 goals and was great on both offense and defense. More importantly, he had fun and wants to practice and get better. This is his first real go at athletics, and this is a very sports oriented school - there isn't a whole lot else to do here!

Here is Luke playing handball.

On our ministry outing we went back and visited the public hospital where the boys painted the wall. We went into the maternity building - here is the picture of the delivery room.

Here is a horse cart that carried all of the trash out of the ditch.

The before:

The after:

Here are some local kids getting in on the fun.

Here is Zach at the end of the day - they had a little fun with the paint after they finished.

Zach heading the ball in the Petits Poteaux tournament.

This picture is for Bob Murray - sorry if this offends any cat lovers. This cat is right outside the office where we have language class. For days, we could not understand why it was so smelly. THEN we noticed the dead cat! We are sorry that it is not a scratch-n-sniff picture.