Sabga hill on the right and the airstrip in the middle.
Our new house and the Bible study in Ndop is 10 miles away over the dark mountain ridge on the left. These are the cows we ate lunch with today.
Abby and I hope to take a hike one day to the top of the pencil thin waterfall on the right. Elena had a great time. She loves being outside and climbing up the mountain was great fun to her!
I am pointing at the bottom part of the airstrip that goes right to the Needhams place.
Abby and I went out for a "picnic" about a 5 minute drive from our house...the view here is incredible! 
Elena climbing a tree at the pottery.
Our house in Ndop from the front. 
Genesis and I discussing all the bills in what will eventually be our library.
An evening supper with everyone...
Elena and Abby baking...
One of Elena and Elias' favorite things to do at the Needhams...
"Uncle" Tom and Elias on the dirtbike
We did a lot of maintenance on the planes this week. I flew once with Tom and Tom flew quite a bit back in the bush.
I wanted to post some pictures that sort of shows our trip to E.G. I say “sort of” because there is a lot we cannot communicate through pictures. Wow, what a trip! It was exciting, long, hot, cramped, and very interesting. We are glad to be back in Cameroon. We are still praying for a long term solution to our visa needs.
The first picture is of the first bus from Bamenda, the capital of our province, to Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon.
The second picture of Elena and Mr. Ngi is at Shiloh House, where we like to rest in Yaoundé. She was terrified of “that man” when we first came to Cameroon 3 months ago, but now constantly talks about going to see “that little man” at the “Sucker’s” (should be Tucker’s) house.
The third picture is on the bus from Yaoundé to Equatorial Guinea. That trip took about 5 hours and then we just made the last bus from the border across EG to Bata where we spent the night.
The next two pictures are at a missionary guest house in Bata, EG. We all slept under nets to keep the mosquitoes and other bugs away. The kids enjoyed their bucket baths!
The sixth picture is our day walking along the ocean in Bata. We really enjoyed the rest and fellowship with a newly arrived American couple, missionaries to EG.
The seventh and eighth pictures are in the taxi we rented all to ourselves from the border of Cameroon back to the capital. This gave the kids a good opportunity to spread out and even nap. The driver only spoke French, so we arranged everything with him back at the border with a translator and then gave the phone to him when we got to Yaoundé so the Tuckers could give him directions in French to their place. We were stopped for about 45 minutes just outside Yaoundé as the President of the country returned from his visit to France.
The ninth and tenth pictures are us back in Yaoundé. We were so glad to be back in Cameroon on familiar turf. The Tuckers have a beautiful guest house for missionaries.
The next two pictures are on a very nice bus from Yaoundé, the political capital of Cameroon, to Douala, the commercial capital and largest city in Cameroon. We took a few days to visit the Hassmans.
The thirteenth and fourteenth pictures are at the coast in Limbe about an hour to so from Douala. We saw the spot where Alfred Saker arrived and founded the town of Victoria (now Limbe) in 1858. We also visited the church he planted across the street, still a functioning Baptist church.
The last few pictures are us at the zoo (primate sanctuary) there in Limbe. We had a great time there with the Hassmans and all the kids. There were so many monkeys and apes of many varieties there all hanging around and eating bananas…no joking!
We returned by airplane on Monday back to Sagba. Bro. Tom flew down to pick us up so we did not have to ride yet another bus!
We tried as much as possible to be missionaries along the way, but we were somewhat limited by language still. We passed out over 50 John/Romans in English, French, and Spanish to people we met along the way in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. People were very appreciative. We have a lot of stories that we hope to pass along…Thanks for praying for us!!!
Elias is walking everywhere today as he prepares to celebrate his first birthday. Abby is making a cake and some pizza for tonight as we conclude our birthday month for this year!
Thank you all for praying for our visa situation. We were unable to renew our visas as planned. It has been a long two weeks going from place to place and making plans to go even further away to try to get new visas. We are leaving for Equitorial Guinea next week to apply with Cameroon’s embassy there for new visas. This will be a Monday through Friday (ad)venture! Even if they give us new visas, it will only be a temporary solution to our process for getting long term visas and resident status.
Also, pray for our container to arrive before we leave for E.G…it is halfway here from Douala stuck with more paperwork.
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Yes, Elena had a great birthday celebration! She saw that daddy and mommy both had their own happy birthday cake, so she was looking forward to her own all day. Abby made Elena a nice cake. She was asking for a happy birthday cake with the “little fire” on it. Right before we opened some presents with the Needhams, Grammie (Sanderlin) called. When Elena heard she was on the phone, she raced as fast as she could to talk to her. She crashed going too fast around a corner, but got right up and ran to talk to Grammie! Thanks for all the notes and calls for her and us this month! Elias’ first birthday is right around the corner.
The first week of July has been busy with birthdays, 4th of July, ministry, and house hunting. Thanks for praying!
