The Agape Team

Here is a photo of the Agape Team after a 2 - 3 hour jungle hike. We are really enjoying our time with them! They brought ALOT of Twizzlers! We are so sad that they are leaving tomorrow!

A Friend

Here's a picture of one of our favorite friends here in Yaounde. This is Nicoline. She's a wonderful Cameroonian woman, great singer and excellent cook, and she speaks English. I used to call her "my mother" until she recently informed me that she's only 4 years older than I am (she has teen-aged kids...she started young), now I'm her little "sister"!

Fun at RFIS

RFIS stands for Rain Forest International School...we are staying in the guest housing on this campus and there are always fun things going on in the SIL and RFIS community. For example, the kids got to have alot of fun when the RFIS students set up a slip-n-slide during a fund raiser. I think that Asher went down 3 times as much as anyone else! I love his "hideously happy" expression.

The Big Boo-Boo

Estimated repairs at $6,000. We are hoping the responsible party will pay!

Happy (???) New Year...please pray

We just wanted to post a quick one and ask for your prayers. This evening, Nathan and I were in a car accident in Yaounde and the verdict looks grim for our Toyota Hilux. The car at fault was driving way too fast and claimed to have swerved so as to not hit a pedestrian, then hit the back of a small sedan which propelled him right at us in our lane, still at full speed. Nathan is having some back pain, but other than that we are ok and no one else was hurt in the accident (it is only by God's grace that the other truck did not hit any pedestrians on the busy sidewalk where it came to rest). Our front (mostly passenger side-front) is smashed pretty well and the truck was towed to the shop. We'll keep you posted.

PS - We spent most of the afternoon spraying Nandry's head with lice killer and combing out the eggs...pray that this gets cleared up quickly and doesn't spread to the rest of us (including our hairy little monkey)!