Saturday, October 31, 2009

Neighborhood kids

We gathered a crowd while we were unloading the truck for the move. Kids love to have their picture taken and then look at their picture on the camera.

New residence

This is their new place. A little bigger and a lot dryer.

Neighborhood

This is the the door off the street and the neighbors to the brother and sister we moved.

Not all places look like this but many people live in these circumstances

Moving day

One of our first tasks when we arrived was to help move these two people out of this little hut they have lived in for 2 years. It is about 4X6 with newspapers to keep the rain out of the holes. They are brother and sister and the brother is blind. He was just accepted into the local university.

Hello from Nairobi Keyna

We are in Nairobi this weekend for some meetings. It is like Heaven compared to where we are located, but we do like Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Nairobi actually has internet service that we can update our blog. Ethiopia is very restrictive and shuts down blogs so we can't even pull it up. So it looks like either we send pictures and updates to Danielle and she does it or it won't get done. We can send her pictures, 2 at a time, but it takes about 30 minutes to scan them in.

We flew into Nairobi on Friday and today we went with the Christensens to an animal park near the city. It is about 80 square miles with any African animal there is, except it doesn't have elephants. We had a guide who drove us through the area while we looked for animals and then took a 100 pictures. We will try to put some on the blog before we leave on Monday.

First Ethiopian meal


We were invited the first day we landed in Addis Ababa to one of the Church leaders home for Injera and all the "stuff" that goes with it. Some of the missionaries who also attended.
Injera isn't very good.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Not your typical horse and carriage...

Here is a horse cart in Awassa outside a rented church building.  I wonder if Vaughn has taken a stab at driving one of those...

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Finally some photos!

Vaughn and Ann are doing great! Vaughn sent me some photos to post on the blog becasue he was having so many problems.  He said that the Hilton hotel claims to have high speed internet, but he still isn't convinced that it exsists in Ethiopia!  From now on I will be posting their photos for everyone to enjoy, however it doesn't seem like it will happen too often.  Here's the first two of the photos, enjoy!
-Danielle

These are photos of the LDS chapel at Megenagna, Addis Ababa.  This is the only property the church owns; all other branches meet in rented houses.

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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Responsibility


Those who are responsible for all this and the example they set with two missions to Africa.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Food at the MTC


We liked the food at the MTC

Fall in Park City

A break from the MTC and a trip to Brent's house in Park City to view the changing of the fall colors