Projects and Blessings

Progress ongoing on several projects.  Several meetings with partners to keep things moving.  We love to visit the schools and mingle with the kids.  Teachers here work so hard to help the students learn.  The younger grades usually have to split into two sessions with some grades going for 3-4 hours in the morning and other grades going 3-4 hours in the afternoon. 

The church provided these preschoolers with these tables and chairs.  It was so fun to deliver them.  They really don't learn much English until 2nd grade. 

One of the 7th grades had a math problem on the board so Grandpa had to show them how to solve it.  But the answer didn't make sense so I realized I had multiplied wrong!  The kids got a kick out of my mistake.  After I fixed it and solved it correctly, I told them I had gone to college in Math.  Pretty funny!

Grandpa jump roping with kids at the Lupani School after checking on the progress of the classroom building.  

 After dropping the school supplies off, there was a small zoo just down the street so stopped to see.

Zebras were just wandering around.  Was tempted to see if I could ride it.

Very friendly, ugly gal.

An albino porcupine in with a dozen other ones.

We are really enjoying our mission.  We see God's hand in this work on every front.  From the humanitarian projects that help improve educational opportunities, health, and self-reliance to the missionary work that our young people are doing.  We marvel at how the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ is blessing lives as we witness lives changed and people striving to become better disciples of Christ.  We wish we could share all the Zambian pioneer stories we hear.  We are all truly blessed in so many ways as we embrace the gospel, repent, study scriptures, pray, follow the prophets, and draw closer to God.

Baptism of a man and two young boys by Elder Latola from South Africa and Elder Davis from Gilbert Arizona.  The boy's parents were baptized a few weeks ago.  Can't you see those two young men serving as missionaries in a few years?  Many of the young men here do serve missions.