Often people ask, so how is Grenada different than Mississippi? Well, there's no short answer - there are many differences --- and yet, there are way more similarities than differences. We are all one blood. We all have similar desires, needs and dreams. We all need Jesus!
Anyway, here are a few random pictures, explanations, and thoughts.
A Grenadian man comes around every Monday morning and sells Samosas (potatoes,chicken,and spices, wrapped in a tortilla like shell and deep fat fried). Since they are fried I know they would sell well in Mississippi! We love them. Morgan can almost down one by herself.
Marvin has been enjoying beekeeping again. He learned to know a beekeeper (Tinky) here and spent several days with him. He now has 2 hives of his own behind our house. In the evenings, we find several bees in our house that didn't make it back to their hive. Shawn stepped on one the other evening and limped around the next day.
On Independence Day our church made a traditional Grenadian pot called 'Oil Down' and took it to a playing field for supper. It took 4 hrs. for 4-5 people to cut up and prepare chicken, vegies, breadfruit (basically like a potato), and a bunch of other foods and seasonings for the 2 pots. It is cooked in coconut milk on an open fire for 1-1 1/2 hrs. Was it ever delicious!
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Kyla, Monique, Sophia, Kyle, and Conrad
Monique and Sophia are Sammy's girls (from our church)
Shawn had his 3rd birthday the 11th of Feb. and we started the day with a personalized pancake.
Then he helped mix up his cake.
Caleb, Nicki, and Conrad bought him this ball with their 'snow ice' money.
This is Afia's little boy, Jessie.
One Sat. night last month we had supper with the teacher's, Euran, and Sid out by our pavilion/shelter and then we came in the house and played games for a while.
The lady teacher's have a Bible Study with these girls every Monday night.
Morgan is into the 'pulling out and down everything she can' stage. If you look close, you can see the custard snow ice in little bags on the stove. That's what the children sell after school every day.
This crew of fine men came for a week to do work projects.
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Jared, Nick, Matt Orndorf (Leneord's son), Zac, and Scott
They were all from MD
They screened in the office and 2 bedrooms.
Screening in bedrooms means putting screened doors on the bedroom doors.
We are enjoying our nights with almost no mosquitos.
Shawn and Caden wanted to be involved as much as they could.
Pastor Marvin and Pastor Nelson fixed the fence that is in front of our house and the church.
Our wash line came off the wheels 3 times while the work crew was here. They got pretty good at putting back together.
This is showing you what a 4 week old cast looks like. It had soft spots already by the time we were home from the hospital. Her elbow had a big hole in it, too. They removed it with a simple scissors.
And........Here's little miss Morgan at 9 months old!
