The Latest Pictures from Aimée

 

 Kids!

 Enjoying life there

Mom's notes here.

We often tease Aimée to show us the smile we 'bought'....braces.

We have loved seeing this smile in the pictures of her that we have gotten.

It truly makes us very happy to be separated from her,

knowing that she is enjoying herself!

To most people she appears as a rather quiet and serious young woman.
Her family knows her in a much different way.

She is very competitive!!

She is studious!

She is an avid reader!!

She plays the piano and flute.

She can cook, bake, and clean the kitchen!

Her Bible is precious to her!
Sharing the Gospel is something she loves to do!

She can keep her brothers in line!

She can operate just about any lawn equipment.

And spent 10 years helping Todd with his business.

She can sew and cross stitch, and is always working on a project or two.

Being lazy would never be something Aimée could be called.

She is comfortable being uncomfortable.

She is a planner, organizer, and able to finish a task.

She is helpful, unselfish, and giving.

She is missed and deeply loved.

But we delight that she is our daughter!

She is our Aimée Noelle!

 

Proverbs 31:29-30

Many daughters have done virtuously,

but thou excellest them all.

Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain:

but a woman that feareth the LORD,

she shall be praised.

 

 

The tale of Conquering Rice Rock Ridge

AKA Being Conquered by it ;)

When seated on the Holt’s veranda the view of the surrounding hills is beautiful, at least in the rainy season when all is green and lush, the dry season might be a different story, will let you know!

Most of the hills are covered in trees, but this one hill, the one we have dubbed Rice Rock Ridge has some large rocks at the top, with light green rice growing all around. It is quite pretty.



 

 

The chicken coop is in the foreground. This is the only hill with rocks scattered on the side, it looks like someone just tossed the rocks into place.

Holly and I had talked about climbing this hill to see all of the village below, we thought it would have to be a great view.

On the 5^th of October, at 8:30 a.m the fun began. Alfred was our tour guide, and he proved to be a pretty good one!

But we were in for a surprise before we began to even ascend the hill, we had to cross the river to get there! I had briefly wondered about this, but figured Alfred knew away across. I was correct he did!

Only it was through the river, not around or over it! I forget the name of the river, but the name’s meaning is “Cold”, and that river was very cold!

Alfred tells us we have to cross and starts across, so we plunge in behind him and at one point I did literally plunge into the water. The current got stronger as we neared the other bank, I stepped wrong and got more of me wet than I had intended!

Once the water was behind us, we began to climb up the hill. It was rather steep, but we made it to the top without any major incidents.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there is nothing like seeing it in person! To the left is the Holt’s abode and off to the right is Baomahun.

Beautiful place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The descent was rather difficult, because of the steepness of the area. Not to mention we had a man leading us, who wanted to take a short cut and got us lost, so we had to back track!

We made it back to the bottom alive, in under an hour, and not overly beat up! I only had a few scratches.

It was certainly worth the time and effort to see the view! To think of all the people down in that village who need Jesus, who is more precious than all the gold they might ever find!

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Proverbs 16:16

Having thoughts of going up again, we will see!!

Aimée

A few new pictures from Sierra Leone

 

I took some Frisbees with me.

The kids enjoy playing with me.

I enjoy playing with them.

I sent my mom this picture,

she is still waiting for an explanation.

I will get to that soon...

hopefully.

 

Psalm 111:2

The works of the LORD are great

sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

Greetings from Baomahun,

 So much has happened in such a short time, it is hard to know what all to write about. It is hard to believe how fast the time has flown, October already.

It has been wonderful thus far and looks like it will continue. I am having a lot of fun teaching, the kids seem to remember much of what is taught. I have been teaching them some songs and love to hear them walk around singing “I’m in right, out right, up right down right,  happy all the time” WOW!

 

 Here is Moses standing by me, and Mustifia, being Mustifia in the background.
Mustifia who is smart, knows it and wants me to know he knows it all!! Very sweet boy, loves to play tic tac toe, falls on the ground, when he loses!

I just love this little guy, his name is Bobo (Small boy) he is so very good, falls asleep in class, but always has a smile, unless you have a camera in his face!!

 

 The class in Tendabu. David Johnny is in front of Holly, his younger brother James behind, and another teacher Abu is standing near me.

 

This is a group of the kids from Gumahun, who were following us after class!

I will try anything.

I have enjoyed many new tastes and flavors here!

I waited until I was nearly 24 to get my official Florida Drivers License.

My permit said it expired in 2014. I was waiting for that. ;)

I now know how to drive a standard shift 5 speed.

I enjoy holding all the babies.

This one is precious.

 

I feel like a celebrity when I walk through town, there are always kids to cling to you, to call “opatoo” (White man) it is just amazing.

 

Psalm 62:1

Truly my soul waited upon God:

from him cometh my salvation.

 

Aimée

Serving the Lord in Africa with Mtn Dew!

 

Psalm 34:8

O taste and see that the LORD is good:

blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

A couple new pictures of Aimée enjoying herself in Sierra Leone.

Having her hair braided

Teaching the children to play tic tac toe on her white board.

The children caught on to the game quickly,

and had a lot of fun!!

 

Psalm 89:1

I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever:

with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.