Tayah had a frog painted on her cheek
during the PNG Independance Day festivities.

Shooting a blow gun our language helper made

from bamboo in his village.

Rolanda's first homemade apple pie!

Rorik potty training. He still has his share of accidents

but is doing good. Can't shake that pink soother, though!

Aowyn is almost completely potty trained.

Hello again, how are you all doing?

We are doing good over here in PNG. We just had PNG Independance Day on September 16 and it was a fun day here at Lapilo. There was a small parade put on by the high school and there was even some candy thrown!

In the past few weeks we have continued to have language training and culture classes every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. We are making progress, but still have a long way to go. I can here our language helper telling people every we got that we know a "liklik tasol", a little only:)Rolanda's birthday is next week and some friends of hers threw her a party here on Friday. She really enjoyed it. She said later her throat was hurting because she had laughed so much.

I am feeling more and more settled at the finace office in Lapilo and at NTMA. There seems to be more talk that I will be at NTMA full-time in the future. We'll see what happens. There is need everywhere.

We experienced a little PNG culture just a couple days ago as a truck carrying a load of coffee hit the ditch across the road from the centre. A large fight and many small fights broke out as it appeared that some people attempted to protect the truck from theft and others tried to take the coffee. We are told that it is common practice to raid vehicles that are damaged on the road. Probably the only reason anybody protected it is because they knew the owner. There was a lot of alcohol involved it appeared and at one point a man with a machete attempted to re-join the fray, but a friend turned him back. We have been told that if we hit a pedestrian as we drive we are not to stop but to go strait to Lapilo, or strait to the police station as the people will react in anger and there is a good chance you would be killed with machete's.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read! Please continue to pray that we would be a blessing ot the missionaries on centre, the missionaries in villages preaching the good news of the grace of Jesus, and to the our neibouring PNG nationals.

God Bless!