Sorry for such a long time between updates. We are so thankful for your continued prayers, love & support!
March 20th-31st: We were so thankful for some vacation time on a neighboring island. The weather was beautiful and we all enjoyed some time at the beach!
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| Allie loving the sand |
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| Beach time! |
We were also able to celebrate Ruth's 32nd birthday while we were on vacation. There was some flooding where we were staying, so our romantic dinner out ended up being stuck in a rental car for 2 hours followed by McDonald's!
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| Us in the rental car |
April 3rd-7th: Company meeting at local hotel. We had a wonderful time of fellowship and hearing how God is at work all over our island and on neighboring Indian Ocean islands!
The rest of April, we battled a lot of sickness as well as the Enemy’s many attempts at distracting & discouraging us from the task that we were called here for.
However, last weekend we were very blessed with an encouraging meeting with two ladies who are veteran missionaries on the island. They shed some light on many of our people groups and imparted wisdom in reaching the Malagasy. We were happy to have this new-found knowledge to begin to unfold the mystery of these smaller people groups.
One night, after the kids had gone to bed, disco died in our house.
One of our large lights came crashing to the ground! We discovered that the 15 pound light fixtures were being held in the concrete ceiling by 4 small screws, each only about 1-inch in length!
The Mahoney Mayhem!
Eli & Zoey really enjoyed their time with other MK’s at the meeting. Eli continues to do well with homeschooling, but has been missing family & friends from America. Zoey has been doing pretty well in the French school, but has not made the friends here that we would have hoped; like she did in Antsirabe. Please pray for God to provide them with close friendships with Malagasy children and other children at school.
Alleluia has been doing plenty of squats preparing to takeoff walking any day now. She has taken a step here and there usually when we are not paying close attention. Her personality is really coming out as she is beginning to express herself & try out her voice especially when we are sitting in traffic (for an hour at a time). We are trying to enjoy these moments since she is growing up so quickly!
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| her glass is plastic ;) |
