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| We were in the Katuba Stake looking at a house where they raise chickens, these were some of the kids that live at the house. They have never seen Mormon Missionaries before. |
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| This is a picture of the street where the kids live, very muddy as it had just rained. |
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| This girl was getting water in the Village of Lumata. This is a hand dug well and they pull the water out with a bucket on a strap. |
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| This is the same girl only close up, this was the best smile we could get, but when we had her look at her picture in the camera she cracked up. |
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| This was probably the best picture from our trip to the Village of Lumata. We had walked through the village and down the train tracks to look at a water tower. We were walking back to the truck and noticed that Sister Bowers had about 50 of her newest friends following her. It must have been the game she played with them, "heads, shoulders, knees and toes". |
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| This is one of the goats in the village, because the village is so far into the country there is plenty of feed, we saw many goats. |
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| We saw this little boy standing on a dirt road, we would trying to find the farmer outside of the village to get permission to look on his property for water. Nice big smile! |
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| This is one of the village pigs looking for food. |
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| Here is a picture of the farmers land showing the lake in distance. |
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| This is more of the farmers land, he has about fifty head of cattle, each hectare (about 15 acres) cost $700.00 USD. He only spoke Swahili so we don't know how many acres he owned, but we drove through his farm for about 3 miles trying to find a water source for the village. Beautiful land with lake. |
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| Here is what walking in the African bush looks like. We found two springs feeding the lake, unfortunately they are on the wrong side the hill to do the village any good. Wendy walks ahead looking for snakes. |
LOVE all these pictures! I especially love all those sweet little kids following Wendy. Love hearing about all your adventures! Oh, and true love for Wendy to be the snake scout. What a woman. Bob, still waiting to see you in a picture....
ReplyDeleteGood morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Democratic Republic of Congo? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Democratic Republic of Congo in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and a original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com, where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely