Return to Cameroon!

Praise the Lord for his grace in the last few months of our lives!  We are very excited about beginning our second term in Cameroon!  I am sorry for the month-long silence, but the internet here has been terrible, not to mention our lives have been busy and crazy.  We are almost back to normal although as I type Abby is unpacking some of our luggage from the return trip! 

Just a few things...

I hope you enjoyed the last prayer letter.  If you don't get it, you can email me for it, and I would be glad to put you on the list. 

Abby is finally better.  We are suspecting that the Ndop water supply was contaminated, though we think they have cleaned or treated the tanks of water.  Somehow Chloe and Abby got sick the most, while Elena and Elias had mild problems.  I had my major sickness in Sabga before coming to Ndop and have thus far been spared from this fever and stomach bug.  Lots of people in town have been getting this sickness. 

Let me post some pictures from February including our journey after Scotland and update that way... 

Arriving in Brussels from Edinburgh! 

After leaving Edinburgh, we landed in Brussels, Belgium where we had a hotel reservation for the night. We had to get two separate rooms as they don't do things large in Europe!

Trying to find the departure gate for Cameroon via the Brussels airport the next morning!

Happy to have found our gate for Cameroon and especially to see lots of Cameroonians headed back too!  The lady I sat by had been a student in Ukraine and was finally returning home to Cameroon!

 We landed and thanked the Lord for all our bags having arrived!  The heat was very noticable!  We took several taxis with the help of bro. Ezekiel and headed for a great night's rest at Shiloh House, a missionary retreat center in the nation's capital!  This is the statue that Elena was terrified of the first time we came to Cameroon in 2009! 

 Tom Needham flew down to Yaounde to pick us up, saving us a long 7 hour drive!  It was about an hour plus flight. 

Using my new zoon lens to capture one of Tom's landings in Sabga as he brought in another visitor.

 Tore Mitchell is from my sending church in Oshkosh, and he led the annual inspections of our planes this year. 

 Bro. Tore getting ready to leave for America...

 Elena calls this girl her "tiny" Fulani friend. 

 We had a great time sleeping in the bungalo at the Needham's house for about a week and a half while we adjusted, worked on the planes, and finished cleaning our house 30 minutes away. 

Bro. Godlove and his wife Maureen.  Pray for them as he is planting a church in a French-speaking part of Cameroon.  Pray that the government would reopen the airfield in the city where he ministers.  We would love to be able to fly down often and help him in his work.  I need to practise my French too!