The rains have finally come

This was our most comfortable run in the entire 6 months we have been here. When it rains hard the temperature drops way down, but it's still hot enough that it feels good to be wet. We hopefully have four more months of this kind of weather.

About every 3 months all of the young sister missionaries gather together at the mission home and they have some sort of life skill training and fun activity. All of the senior missionary sisters join in. Almost all of the young sister missionaries are from Africa . They have started sending sister missionaries from Fiji and Tonga here. I guess they feel they are hardy enough to survive the environment.

This is a project where we're adding a new school building, a new bathroom, and a water pump.

 

The school kids will use this water pump to fill up their water bottles and wash their lunch dishes. Hopefully they'll also wash their hands. It will be kept chained up so the community does not use it and wear it out. Because the pumps are sealed the water they get out of it is pretty clean.

We had another dinner with all of the senior missionaries in the mission. We have an addition. The couple with the short lady in the dark red top with her husband behind her. Their names are the Blanchards. They are the mission couple who run the mission office. They came out almost a year ago and then had to go back home for the last 6 months because their daughter became very sick. Sadly she passed away and they have now returned. It's fun having them here because they are in our same apartment complex. 

Much of the public transportation here is by motorcycle taxis. They are popular because they can weave in and out of traffic. On rainy days they use these umbrellas that keeps the driver and the passenger pretty dry. The driver also uses a plastic windshield to keep the rain off of him. They can use these things because they rarely go over 20 miles an hour.