The Mahoneys on Mission: Many blessings...yet we wrestle

Many blessings...

Our move to our new house went very well. The house is beautiful, open, and has a great big backyard. And best of all there is absolutely no mold!!

Eli has continued to do great at the French school! Each day he works hard to do his homework and has even managed to teach his parents some French too. :) We are encouraged each week by great reports from his teacher! Praise God.

We have been incredibly blessed with 5 years with our Princess Zoey! She had a great time with her friends at her masquerade ball and she didn’t even turn into a pumpkin. :)

Alleluia is growing and learning new things all the time and is so much fun to watch. She gets into trouble faster than the other two did and she is definitely our loudest, but she always makes us laugh and smile! Despite her mama's unhappiness about it, she has become quite the daddy's girl!

Yet we wrestle.

I would love to tell you that we have been completely happy, content and satisfied, but alas, we are still wrestling with some things. Perhaps it is yet another transition that has caused old feelings to return or to become stronger, but we don't want to pretend with you. In short, our lives here in Tana are busy, crazy and hectic much of the time. Since our move in mid-Sept, Andy took a trip to the bush for 3-4 days, we had new personnel come through Tana, I prepared for & threw Zoey’s 5^th birthday party and Andy has been spending countless hours (for the last 4 weeks) in preparation for his board recertification exam scheduled for November 5th. We have also had some trials with our new home, with electrical & plumbing issues, but they seem to be resolved (for now). Our work & research among our PGs is still moving ahead very slowly because of these things and maybe also by nature of researching (especially something that has very little written about it, but must be explored firsthand).

First, we want to say that God IS answering your prayers, so please don't stop!! Secondly, we plead with you not to get tired of hearing us share our joys as well as our struggles because this is our real life and sometimes it is not always rosy, there are thorns that we encounter. Lastly, we are overwhelmed by your love, prayer, support and faithfulness to partner with us-- we absolutely could not do it without you!!

We love you all and we thank God for you!!