a weekend with friends

This weekend our friends Ian & Nadia and their little boy Jonathan came up to Ukarumpa for a visit. They enjoyed the nice cool temperatures here in the Highlands after living in the humid heat of Lae. We all enjoyed a Greek meal together on Friday evening, along with Gavin & Carrie Jones and their son Isaac. Jonathan provided comedy relief through out the weekend (see photo of Jonathan using cereal box as a hat!)
We also enjoyed our visit with the Wildeboers who are fellow Canadians!

the missionary life...

It was just such a nice sunny day and so warm that we couldn't eat inside!
So we took our plates outside and had a yummy lunch on the back steps of our house!














photo taken last week

all the flowers of the feild

a few blooms from our yard

mumu

Last week Paul and the survey team were invited to a nearby village to join in a goodbye celebration for one of the teachers, Donna, who's going on furlough. The village had a mumu (pronounced "moomoo") for Donna. A mumu is cooking food (cooking bananas, sweet potato, corn, squash, greens,chicken, lamb, or pig) on hot rocks that have been heated in the fire, either in a hole in the ground, or covered in banana leaves. As you can see in the photos, the village ladies made a lot of food!

Tupela poroman "two friends"