Books have arrived!

 

We are so thankful for BookEndsInternational that sends us books twice a year. We all look forward to new books coming in the mail!

Books and Homework go hand in hand... Naomi and Nathan doing homework together.... which involves reading for 15 minutes and writing sentences about what they read.

Guesthouse Ministry

 

Georgie, Rumbi, Fiona and I starting off the month of September of Independence celebration by wearing our Independence day meri blouses.

Giving guests the tour of the guesthouse so they know where to find breakfast, snacks and where to do laundry.

Sometimes we get to have good friends over to the guesthouse for meals too.

Naomi turns 9 years old! Birthdays!

 

It's hard to believe that our little Naomi turned 9 this month! We are very thankful for her!

Her favorite dessert is pumpkin pie, so that is what I made for dessert. :)

We enjoyed having Steffan and Julie over to celebrate... eating Naomi's favorite dinner, chicken nuggets, kaukau and pumpkin pie!

Uncle Nate sent a cockatoo that says, "Lukim you!" which means see you later.

I had a birthday too, 2 weeks before Naomi... and a few friends celebrated with us. I even got my own cake this year! Thank you to my good friend, and new neighbor, Julie!

Heading back to the Highlands

 

We had an extra passenger on the way back to Goroka, so the kids had to share a seat... not so comfortable, but they survived!

Back home to Saturday night campfires...

And ladies Bible studies...

Sepik Conference

 

At the Sepik Conference Skit night was all about Family Feud, Sepik Family feud. It was very funny!

Ready for dinner...

We ate dinners all together outside on the lawn.

Jonathan hanging out with some friends.

Many nights the guys would cook meat/onions/peppers on the grill for our dinner.

Chicken fajitas 

I helped prep food ahead of time and freeze it, so we could fly it down to conference. And then I helped with two dinners during conference.

Bratwurst and hot dogs for the Dads and kids while the Ladies were out to dinner.

Ladies night out to dinner in town.

We are thankful for God's reminder of his promises through rainbows!

All the people that attended the Sepik Conference

Men's night - Risk

The teaching sessions on Matchless Grace, testimonies and devotionals were so good.

The view from our porch.

Kids Carnival Day - fun, fun!

 

We even got to go to the beach for a few minutes.

We were thankful to have time with these friends. We lived next door to them in Wewak for many months. And our kids played together all the time. Now they have 2 more little girls!