Thankful Week

A group from LDS Charities came to train Midwifes to train others on Maternal and Newborn care.  Enjoyed taking them to church, feeding them, and helping them get everything set up.  We wish we could stay for the whole training but we have to go to a senior couples conference.  

 At the beginning of the Midwife training, they sang an opening song and had a prayer.  Loved this song.  Wish we knew what the words meant. 

The Dr. showing the uterus contraption they use in the training. 

Just had to eat here.  (Janet's maiden name is Bushman)

We wondered how they made charcoal.  Here's a charcoal mound burning in a low oxygen environment.  Many people here cook with charcoal.  

Had a great Thanksgiving feast.  An American family who works at the US embassy invited the couples and many of their coworker families.  In October they brought the turkey and ham from the U.S.  Really great traditional thanksgiving dinner but we missed our Family.  The day after Thanksgiving the roads were completely clogged and upon asking why we found it was because of Black Friday.  They celebrate that here even though they don't celebrate Thanksgiving.  

We are working to put a borehole in for a school so they can have clean accessible water.   First two pictures below shows the engineer doing the borehole siting study to figure out the best place for the well.  They put stakes into the ground hooked to wires that run to that machine in the briefcase then run current through it and measure conductivity then repeat the process moving the stakes out further and further in different directions.  

This was the school's water source.  Just a hole dug in a ravine.  It wasn't so muddy and dirty before the heavy rains this week.  

 The best teeter-totter ever at this school. 

A bit of the farmland out in the bush on our way to the school.  We have to use 4 wheel drive on the road to get there.  So fun!  Who gets to go 4x4ing on their mission??