These are the new missionaries that arrived last week at the DR Congo Mission! They are excited to be here and I know they will be great missionaries!!!

Dr. Crouch, Sis Preece, Mrs. Ngoyi, Dr Ngoyi and Dr. Preece pose for a picture after dinner. They taught hundreds of doctors in Africa how to get babies to breath after the are born. Neonatal Resuscitation. There efforts have already saved the lives of many babies!!!

The Nakales are having a birthday celebration. The father, David, is getting help from his 2 boys blowing out the candles.

Yes, Elder Moon is blowing out his candles with a wind turbine (his hand). It really works! You should try it. Elder Moon's mother taught it to him.

These missionaries have served an honorable mission and are getting one last picture before going home. They are diligent, hard workers who have seen tremendous success.

This is a typical market with cooking stoves, charcoal, soap, food, and anything you can imagine.

Sister Moon and Sister Livingstone pose with Sister Bokala at their home on the Kinshasa University Campus.

We had dinner with the Kinshasa Stake Patriarch, Elder Bokala, and his wife, shown in the previous picture. After dinner, 6 of their 7 sons and their daughter sang several chuch hymns for the Livingstones and us. They sounded fantastic!!!

This beautiful bird crashed into the window at the mission office. We brought it in, photographed it, and after a few minutes, it was well enough to fly off (in the office) Pascal was able to get it outside and it flew away.

The "mission" sewing machine broke. The speed control foot peddle uses the principle of a carbon pile. Those are all the disks on the white papers on the table. After considerable work I was able to restore the speed control capability. Before repairs it had only one speed, maximum speed.

The Moody couple have been wonderful!!! We see them at the office almost every day and have Friday night dinner and movies with them.
President and Sister Livingstone

at Bonobo Park.

Elder Moody with Stacy and Steven.

Sister Moon with Johann.

Yes, they have heavy equipment here. This D-9 Catepillar hasn't moved for several years, but it greets everyone at the entrance to the Bonobo Park.

Playing in the Park!

Sister Moody enjoying time with Stacy and Steven Ilunga.

Here is the whole Ilunga family. From left to right: Mamie, Johann, Eustache, Stacy, and Steven.

These women are in an acre area that is sequestered from the rest of Bonobo Park by an electric fence. The new born Bonobos live in this area and are cared for by the monkeys mothers and also the four women shown in the photo. All of the 60 Bonobos in the park have names and all the attendants know them by name.

We are in our jungle outfits for the Bonobo experience.

This is George. The attendant told us all about his personality. He is cranky in the morning, but perks up in the afternoon. He loves to tease the mothers and enjoys tossing dirt at us.

Lunch!

Stacy's hairdo for the day! Stacy is Eustache and Mamie's little girl.

The autoclave at St Joseph's hospital broke. Since replacement parts were not available, I had to go to the local hardware store, shown in the photo, and buy "parts".

The autoclave was repaired at the hospital. Basically all the electrical parts had to be replaced.
The maternity ward is in the open door behind me.

Elder Moody, one half of the Humanitarian Couple in the DR Congo (and Republic of Congo and Cameroon), and I pose with the finished autoclave makeover product. Please note the new gravity operated door latch. The door stays shut because of a dead weight, made from a heavy lock, that rotates on a gate hinge. We are applying for a patent on it.


We took our 2nd excursion in a year, to Bonobo Park. It is a Bonob0 monkey semi-open reserve about 30 kilometers from Kinshasa. This little water fall is at the park.

Walking at Bonobo Park. Annette is holding Eustache's baby Johann. Eustache is the glue that holds the office together, along with Pascal, and he is in the background.