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Stephen has been gone for two weeks now; it seems longer, but God has worked things out for us here at home, and Stephen is loving being in with the Maniwo. He is spending alot of time with them, so it's helping his language. The houses are starting to go up, too, so that's pretty exciting. He made a hike over to another family group of houses (the Maniwo spread out all over the area) that was about 8 hours away. Steve said he's never been so exhausted. He said the last two hours of the hike, his muscles were cramping up like crazy. They had a great time with the people there; they remembered him from last year when he was in that location. He over nighted there, and then hiked home the next day.   Our coworker Anderson and one of the Maniwo were with him as well.  The hike home was almost worse, because they didn't have enough time to recuperate from the hike the day before. By the time they got back home, Stephen had to crawl into the house, he wsa so exhausted. Can you imagine??  I'm glad he's ok, and he didn't get heat exhaustion or anything.  It is so nice being in touch with him via radio.

The girls and I are plugging away at school these days at home.   The first couple of weeks were pretty challenging, I thought, but it's going much smoother now.  A nice opportunity for us to interact more than we normally would. 

Stephen and Anderson come out on September 5th, and my Dad and brother Tim will go back in then to carry on. They decided it would be better to take turns being in there so that there is always someone in there moving things along with the house building and lumber cutting.  There is a group of national fellows doing that.

Well, I better run.  Have a great week!

Love, Carolyn