Happy goats

Today we spent the whole day hauling gravel and sand and cement. Then we hand mixed the concrete for half the barn. Tomorrow we will do the other half of the base and then we can start on the wooden part of the building.
The goats on the base seemed especially happy today. They must know that soon they will have a new home.

Building begins

Today we started on the construction of the much needed goat pen. Dean and Terry (the base director) went shopping for material on Saturday because the stores will be closed for holidays till Wed. The base was blessed with the funds to build this project from friends of the Fehr's. Who will be here today! Today they are preparing the base and hand mixing the concrete. Those of you who have ever mixed concrete by hand will know how much work that is. I will post pictures of the progress as I get them. Pray for good weather and no rain. We will need it.

mission kids

There are so many great reasons why people choose to go on missions. These are some of our reasons.

Fun day in the village

One of our favorite things that we have done is to bring a poleroid camera with us and take pictures of the kids and families to give them. Lots of people living in situations such as this have never had a picture of themselves that they can keep. It is a huge relationship builder. Everyone loves to see pictures of themselves. For them to be able to keep the picture instead of just to look at the picture on some ones camera is huge. The next day after taking the pictures they ran up to me saying "senora photo" they new me and wanted to hug me and walk with me and hold me hand.It is the most fun thing for me to be able to do. (Thanks Con and Lorraine!).




We spent another day in the village teaching the kids and having fun. It was neat to go the second day because the kids came running, knowing our names and wanting hugs. We took the kids to the beach for a couple of hours in the afternoon and played in the water and in the sand and fed them treats. We will miss them.

Visit to the indigenous village

This is the first KidzReach team in action.
Colton and Miranda had fun playing with the kids in the village. Colton made balloon animals. Miranda skipped with the kids and drew with them and they both showed them pictures from back home. The kids were very excited when I brought out the poleroid camera and took pictures of everyone in the village.


This is some of the houses in the village that we visited. They are all built up on stilts. Some of the house don't have walls all around them and babies sometimes fall off the edge.

Sun

Thank you God it is not raining today!!!!!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!! We have had a very different Christmas this year. You would expect that we would be having a very hot sunny Christmas. But this year we have had lots and lots of RAIN. Yes, rain 15-20 inches in the last few days. Everywhere we go is by boat because we are in a house far away from anywhere.
Today we decided to ignore the rain and go by boat to the nearest beach. We could have walked but it is an hour through the rain forest jungle by foot. So we jumped on the boat and headed over. It was a fun little excursion. We played in the sand and ate some coconut and watermelon and headed back. Tonight we will have a ham and potato supper made by our hosts.
We hope everyone has a very merry Christmas and we wish Don a very happy birthday.