The blog's been quiet for a while, but our lives have still been busy! As I'm sure you can imagine, balancing language study and daily life with 3 little kids fills our days to the max! It's been a while since I've shared a lot of pictures, so I'll let them do the talking about what we've been up to! :)
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| Some kids found a baby bat living in the siding of our house |
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| Corey, a missionary in training in the States, came to visit us for a week in early June |
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| We taught some village kids how to play "Duck, Duck, Goose" but our version is "Pig, Pig, Dog" :) |
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| We hiked 2.5 miles down to a lake to go spear fishing with the village |
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| The people beat a certain poisonous vine and put it into the water to make the fish float to the surface |
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| Clint speared 6 fish! |
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| Snack break at the lake :) |
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| Lance fell asleep in his carrier on the long hike home. We laid him down for a minute when we took a break :) |
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| The kids did such a great job on the hike, even though it was muddy and long! |
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| We celebrated my birthday with some homemade pork burgers! Soooo delicious! |
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| And we played a few rounds of our current favorite game. We've been playing it a lot in our free time :) |
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| As part of his language study, Clint has been building a small house next to ours where we can invite our friends over in a culturally familiar setting |
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| He's made several trips to the jungle with guys to collect materials |
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| These are bundles of roofing materials. The people call it "bobre" (boh-brey) |
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| Our friend Stanli taught us how to sew up the large panels of thatch for the roof |
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| Some teenagers helped Clint hang the bobre on the roof |
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| Almost done! Just needs some walls |
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| Ashlyn has been helping a little bit with medical needs in the village. This guy cut his leg when he was hollowing out a canoe |
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| Watching the river flood one day |
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| We had a language evaluation in early July. So thankful that we're halfway done with language study! |
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| We headed out to our mission base the day after our language evaluation for a break! |
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| Ashlyn passed the 20 week mark in pregnancy on the day we headed out to town |
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| We had so much fun driving around town as a family |
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| Our base is only a few minutes away from the beach |
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| Our base has some AMAZING mango trees that were in season while we were there |
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| These mangoes are called papaya mangoes, and they are the BEST! Not stringy at all and so sweet! |
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| The kids had lots of fun playing on the playground at the base |
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| We enjoyed going out to eat several times at restaurants in town |
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| One of the restaurants at a local hotel has a nice pool that's open at lunch time |
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| Unloading our supplies at the airstrip and watching the plane take off |
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| The water was really low heading back up river, but we made it fine |
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| Back to language study! Our friend, Ambi, is helping Clint translate recorded stories that we have gotten from our friends into the trade language so we can understand each of the words |
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| Our garden has been growing a lot! We have some papaya trees, pineapple plants, watermelon, and bananas that are almost ready for picking |
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| This stalk of bananas is almost ready! |
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| The kids have been enjoying going swimming in the river |
Hope you enjoyed a peek into our daily lives out here! :)
