Eggciting new developments!!

1. Our electricity lines - our first chicken shed now has power!! Woohoo!!
2. Power - no more 3am mornings turning on the generator!!
3. Sinking the borehole - eventually!!!
4. Have you ever seen a spanner as big as this one??

The Team!!

Puff Adder!!

The workers found this enormous Puff Adder just outside our window!! Scott tries to put it out of it's misery by wacking it's head with a stick... It was a tough job! Eventually we managed to kill it and chop off it's head (with Dan's Leatherman!) but it's heart was still beating 2 hours later!!! (Even after Scott and Stephen skinned it!!) Amazing creature!!

An Update...

Life in Nampula, although stretching and challenging, is going extremely well!
Mutangaras - always full of smiles and encouragement, even when soapy water from an under ground pipe flooded their entire room two nights in a row. All your prayers are greatly appreciated!
Dan and I (Ruth) are so happy to be reunited after my 3 weeks in the UK for my sisters wedding and are loving the freedom and excitement that this opportunity brings! (Although I didn't recognise him at the airport because he had lost so much weight and grown such a huge beard!) Dan's Portuguese is now excellent!! Please pray for energy and good sleep!!
Marques - Loving being back after Brighton and wonderful 2 weeks in Zim. Kids loving being back on the farm - riding horses, tearing around on bikes, putting up with dogs roaming around their tent at night.
The chickens are now laying approximately 1100 eggs (ovos) per day and we are always 'sold out' two days in advance!! Please pray for an increase in laying as we are under peak production at the moment.
Church - Our regular Monday morning prayer meeting has been an excellent time of building unity and relationships! Scott is looking forward to Wednesday afternoon leaders meeting - connecting with the core group again. Please pray for a supernatural ability to learn Portuguese for all of us!!
It is so exciting to see some of the women from the local community (Rapale) coming to buy more and more eggs each day as their client base increases! (Their downcast faces changing to smiles of hope - and amusement at my terrible 'Portuguese'!) The workers also showed up proudly for work in their new clothes and shoes after the last payday!
So much change!!

Some Beautiful Quotes...

Give what you have; to someone it may be better than you dare to think.
-- Longfellow

We cannot all do great things but we can do small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa

Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.
-- Carlton Pearson

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.

-- Jim Elliot