Hello Friends
I must admit I am feeling a bit guilty as I haven’t been able to get a response back to all the emails we have gotten over the last little while. I promise I will get to them, sometime.
This last week was my first week flying solo. So far I can go to about a dozen strips out of the almost 300 that MAF serves here. My first flight was a medivac and by the end of the week I had done three. Two of them had to do with complications after child birth. In the attached photo you can see us getting ready to put the patient in the airplane for the 15 minute flight back to Mt Hagen. She was not in very good shape a sore had gone unnoticed and got real bad and I suspect by this time she was suffering from blood poison. At least the new baby was alive and well the second women’s baby did not fair as well.
For the last couple weeks we have been helping out a Bible Translation family who is out in a village by doing their shopping for them usually veggies and other odds and ends. Then usually I drop in and deliver the veggies and a newspaper. WE sure appreciate being able to help out in this way knowing we would never be able to do a bible translation. This last week we also added buying veggies for one of the single MAF pilots who lives down on the coast and doesn’t have access to a good source of veggies. Life is fairly quiet here on the compound as two families have gone back to Australia to have babies before returning later this year. So for the next 6 weeks it is us and the Fasnachts, who will fly out on the 26th of June back to Switzerland. Esther is doing well and for the most part life has settled down. Please remember this family in your prayers especially the children.
As for us we are all doing very well Sue and the kids continue to spend most of the day working on Homeschool and Morgan has finished most of her gr 1 stuff so has started to work on gr 2. Josh continues to play hard outside and hates to wear shoes so his feet look terrible I think it has something to do with being unable to climb trees with them on. Here is a picture of him up a tree working on another project and one of Morgan and Gioia working on another craft.
Love you all and thanks for your prayers!
# posted by Ebel's Blogmail @ 11:35 PM
