Elder Moon working on an eye machine. We followed the doctor to get to the clinic but knew we would have to come back on our own. We drew a map as we drove marking every landmark we could see hoping we would not get lost. That map will have to have a place in our scrap book as it served us well!

This is one of our former sister missionaries. Her fiance worked while she served her mission so they would have enough money to get married. It was fun to experience a Congolese wedding. The ceremony itself took place in the chapel and was very reverent with lots of talks and some music from the choir. Afterwards, everyone moved into the cultural hall where the bridesmaids came dancing in, and there was much merriment! As many of the guests greeted the bride and groom, there was alot of whistle blowing, chanting and singing.

This little flower girl was just precious! She looked like a mini bride.

Here's a group of our fantastic missionaries. Oh how we love them!

In October we had a Sisters' Conference. We had a wonderful breakfast, learned to make some colorful cards, listened to talks and had an all out great time. We have the best sister missionaries!

They love to get up close and personal to have their pictures taken!

Wish you could see the cards better. They are in three D. They are of Congolese women in their colorful fabrics with hair and beads, etc attached.

Sister Livingstone tried some of the hair we were using. What do you think? Should she become a brunette?

Everyone had a great time!

This cute little bird showed up on our window sill and watched us for quite a while. There are many beautiful and colorful birds here.

We went to this really nice boutique to look at local artisans work. They have beautiful gardens with birds, lizards, peacocks, statues etc. It was so peaceful walking through the lush gardens and observing the different wildlife.

This albino peacock was so beautiful! He really liked to strut around with feathers fully spread.


This bird has a really interesting head dress! Notice the fun statues around.

Elder Moon working on a camera that broke. He couldn't get replacement parts so he had to make some along with some tools because he couldn't find any small enough.

This was a well project that the Barlows did. It was fascinating to see how they hand dug the wells, formed the rings in the ground with cement, and then dropped the pipes down in the well. Villagers are so thrilled to get these wells!

Elder Moon working on one of the Braille machines that the church donated to a Blind and Handicap Center.

Elder Moon basically had to take each of the machines apart an clean and fix them. They are older machines but he says they are built well and should last for years.

Here is one of the crews that repaired all of the benches in one of the ward buildings. They did a great job!

This cute little girl was my shadow one day as we fixed benches at one of the ward buildings. Her English was pretty good and we had some great discussions. She wanted her picture taken every few minutes. She loved closing one eye each time. What a fun personality she had!

Don't you love the hair!

This was taken a few months ago. It is a picture of our English class.

The Rest of the Luputa Trip

O.K. so I don't have this blogging thing down very good. And the last six weeks our internet has been broken but they finally came and really fixed it this time so we will try again. The man holding the stick in the trench is showing how they measure to make sure the trench for the water pipes is deep and wide enough. Most of the trench has been hand dug by the villagers. This is all apart of the huge water project the church is doing in Luputa. The first phase is almost finished. It will bless the lives of thousands of villagers from the water source along a twenty mile pipeline to Luputa. Water will be distributed all along the way. It will be such a blessing to have clean water and to have it come right to their village.

The group of beautiful African women are teachers at a monastery we stopped to visit.

Elder and Sister Moon with Sister Parmley in the vehicle we traveled in. Bouncing around in the back of this truck on the roads to Luputa was a real adventure. Alot of people would pay good money for a four wheeling trip like that! Just harder to do in missionary clothes!! You should have seen Elder Moon's white shirts. They were covered in red dust!