Hello to all. Sorry it has been a while since we have updated our blog. Here are a few random pictures of what has gone on here in the last few months.

Finishing the last set of curbs.

                                              This is a picture of a little girl in our congregation named Naomi. At every meeting I try hard to get her to talk to me and smile but I have yet to succeed. The little pink lamb she is holding is from my niece back in Georgia. Her name is Norah. She wanted her toy to go to someone special.

So we had a family day not too long ago. One of the skits was a reenactment of what happens at a construction committee meeting. We embelished upon some of the characteristics of our brothers....all in good fun. ...........Do you like Aaron with Gray hair?

So Jane (Aaron's mom) and Michelle have been here for almost 2 weeks now.....we have tried to show them as much of Liberia and the branch that we know.....I'm sure for the most of you you will get pictures and stories from them. Here is a little bit of what we have done with them.....

Toured the branch and construction site.......

                                      
We went out to eat with them at a restaurant name Palm Springs...

Took them to a beach at a resort....played some games and got sun kissed.....

Had them cook with us for the whole family here.....we cooked BBQ sandwiches , coleslaw, fries, and apple pie.

Also while they are here we had our C.A. so we brought them along to experience an African assembly.....

isn't she cute?!

This is the construction family as of last Friday. We are made up of 11 different nationalities. Liberia, Britian, USA, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Australia, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, and Switzerland.

 Every Friday we have 4 o'clock clean up.Everybody stops work and we meet together to get organized into groups to go clean up the site. So at the meeting we take advantage of the small time we have to lay back and relax!

 This is what we are currently working on. Roads. Lots of fun....

 This is the frontal view of the new dinning room/kitchen extension. We will offically be using it as of January 24th. The branch wanted it finished before the Zone visit which is Feb 18th. There is quite an excitement all around the branch about moving into the new dinning room.

We have major thunderstorms here in the rainy season.....not to long ago a brother sat out on his pourch during a storm and was able to capture a picture of the lightning.

 At our safety meeting, resting on the big pile of sand....

 Digging trenches and loving it!

 Making forms to cast a cover for a trench.....lots of fun

 Not all work and no play......

Hey there......where have you been I've been waiting on you! ...thats probably what you have been thinking about us updating our blog. Sorry I am horrible at this. Well what have we been up to since the district convention. Not to much.......this is where our crew is currently been working. This is the shipping/ literature warehouse. We have been working on the loading dock and the road and retaining wall in front.

 Here Aaron and some of the brothers on our crew are setting the caps on the retaining wall. Just so you know what I (krystal) have been up to on all of this, I formed and finished the caps and there is a drain that is right in front of the loading dock and there are these little dog bones that cross it made out of concrete. So thats my small contribution to all the work going on in this area.

 Another picture of the loading dock with the lift in it.

 Watching while we work.....

This is the service/office building. It is in current demo mode. Originally it was suppose to be just remolded and a new roof but they have discovered that the building is in worse shape than they thought so at the moment we are awaitng the word to find out what will happen to the building......no matter what this adds on to the length of the project so we will be here a little longer.....

 This is the new kitchen/dinning room extention. It is suppose to be completed in middle Jan and they sill move in and be fully functioning in Feb for the upcoming zone visit.

 Here is the inside of the extention...what you are looking at is what will be the dinning room area.

 And this is the shops building....still has a lot to be finished before we can completely turn it over to the branch because construction is using a lot of it for storage and a carpentry shop.

 This is a picture of our current crew from left to right is Henrik ( from Sweden), Toni (from Finland), Matthew, Dominic (a special pioneer), Rufus, and you know the other two.

      Before the District convention Jack Whiting left us.....we had a special breakfast set up for him the last morning he was with us......this is our current morning worship table. Sometime in Feb we will be in the new dinning room. So that you know who some of these  brothers and sisters are from 12 o'clock on is Tarnue and his wife Alice, then Jack, Varfee, Emanuel, Nathaniel and his wife Maude, Beniah, and then us.

 This is a family who has just came into our hall a couple months ago...our congregation took some territory from another and they came with it. They are a great family....had many experiences to tell us about serving as CO and DO during the war here in Liberia......for those of you who know Brother Clink he worked with them while they were here in Liberia.