Gabon Days 4 and 5 Here...

This is one of the three girls sleeping room

here is the guys sleeping room, also our walk through Area

ATTENTION PARENTS: Your teens want you to comment on the blog. They really want to hear from you, so write something, I let them read it.

That out of the way here is what has gone on the past two days.

First is a big prayer request: Today while playing soccer Steve either dilocated his little toe or broke it. It just kinda dangles and is all purple and swollen now. The medical system here is like, not good, so we will wait the 10 day till we get home. I have been doing the nurse things I can like checking color,warm, movement, pain, numbness, tingling and know there is not much to do but tape it to his other toes and wear a firm bottom shoe at thos point. He's hobbling around but in good spirits. Not bad for an almost 50 year old guy. Just so you know he continued to play soccer for 15 minutes after it happened.

Yesterday was a planning day for an outreach we are assisting with. We did the planning with the Roche Youth group and talk about a difficult job to do. The didn't speak english and we didn't speak french. It was fun and frustrating trying to plan games to play at the outreach. Then we had to go to the Market to buy stuff for the outreach. We had 4 groups and were each given 10000 African Francs or about $5 tobuy the stuff. We told the teens not to bring anything with them, not even their cameras but I didn't do that. I put the little digital camera Steve just bought in my pocket because I am the Photodocumenter and...... one minute into the market I was pick pocketed and Steve no longer has a little digital camera. The Market was so frustrating for us. Very crowded and not being able to communicate even with the Gabonese teens on our team was just a bigheadache but a great lesson. God being God well, it all worked out and we got what we needed. Became better mimes. Last night then we had the Pastor who will be taking us into the jungle, to a small village about 30 klm south and 15 east of here on Tuesday. Wewill be doing various things but a good portion will be medical. More on a future date about how to pray for that day. It was a very good day, yet exhausting from the aspect of communication.

Today was a day of just relaxation. First we went to catch a boat to this beach across from Libreville. The place where we caught the boat IS where SURVIVOR took off from to start this season and where daily they pick up supplies. So..... here is a picture of me standing where Survivor kicks off. Can you say it will be in my next Video App that I am stalking them.

We got to the beach around 10:30 AM and claimed our territory in front of a verey small hotel. We started swimming, playing soccer on the beach (the accident with Steve happened late in the day there),walking the beachand for Matt and I taking a lot of Pics. We had a wonderful lunch on the beach that Meredith prepared for us. Gee, I need to take a picture of Tim and Meredith so you can know who we are talking about. The teens ate like we never had feed them before. I guess the sun just zaps all the energy from them. The afternoon was spent .....

taking naps and cutting hair????



jumping off the pier ....... it was a lot of fun and we all did it


and being swallowed by the waves .....

The waves were HUGE, over Big Whips head but a blast to play in. I got a lot of sand in my bathing suit as did everyone who frolicked in the waves. there were about 14 of us that did. Only 4 of us females were braveor stupid enough to do this. Mind you, the only injury came playing soccer, so jumping off piers and hugeous (word I made up) waves are not dangerous.

PRAYER REQUEST for TOMORROW: Our Outreach with the Roche(the Gabonese church here) Youth group. We will be going door to door at 10 AM (5 AM your time) to invite kids 3-18 to come. Then at 2PM (9AM) we will start with a short time of worship and then play games ina soccer field with the kids that come. we planned a lot of American type games like 3 legged races, relay race stuff so pray we can convey the how to to the Gabonese children. At the End we will be inviting them to come to church the next day and we will be there too. Several of our teens wil be sharing their testimony so pray for them in this. That God would speak through them to these kids. Thanks forreading and mainly for all your Prayers. Keep it up, we feel it.

NOW leaVe a COMmeNT TO Your TEeN!!!