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Hi again everyone, we trust this finds you well.

We don’t have nearly the stories we had last time, but give us a month or two!! The past few weeks have brought many different things in our path. First of all, Rich is back at work again. It was a bit of an adjustment as we have had him with us at home for 5 months. So we were a bit sad to see him go, but it was time for things to begin so to speak.

He began in his first week, with studying. He studied and did some orientation things around the hanger. Monday a week after he began he was off to Port Moresby the PNG’s capital to write his Air Law exam so he can fly in the country. While in Port Moresby, he was told, that Port Moresby was ranked one of the worlds most dangerous cities!! He managed fine, without trouble and passed his exam! Thank you Lord!. He was even able to find me some chocolate chips, something that you can’t find here in Mt. Hagen. So that was a treat, I didn’t think I would get excited over groceries!! He brought a few things for the kids too. They were just excited to have him home again.

As of yesterday he is legal to fly here. So this morning he was going flying with one of the check pilots, this is phase one and it is just to get familiar with the airplane and flying in PNG. For now he is flying the Cessna Turbo 206, then in a couple of weeks he will get some training on the Airvan (phase two). That is the plane he will fly from Kawito.

Speaking of Kawito, we have been told they are planning on sending us down around the 20^th of March. Our drums have arrived in country so we are glad about that. We are sort of hoping we get them through Customs in time for us to get to Kawito, if they come too soon, we may be tempted to open them! We have heard they are working on our house to get it ready for us, like some painting, etc. So we are glad they are looking after some things like that for us.

The kids are back into a full routine with school work, and it seems to be working well. They are doing very good, and we are moving ahead, I think there is a chance we will be done either before June or just on time. So that is good considering the year we have had.

For those of you wondering about my toe, it is doing great. I am amazed how it has healed up and pretty much back to normal. It looks a bit funny, but I am able to walk and pretty much function as normal. So I am thankful for that, certainly didn’t think it would be the same again!!

Well, that’s about all for us here in Papua New Guinea. Feel free to write us anytime we love to get mail. The kids are beginning to have more interest in who is writing us an email, and they are beginning to write their own,

Talk to you all again soon,

Rich, Sue, Josh and Morgan Ebel

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