Another busy week.

Hi All

Sorry it's almost Thursday and still I have not written anything. Please pray for strength to get everything done. Along with the work load I need to get some form of a budget done by early next week so please pray that I find enough hours to do this each day. Sorry for those who are due letters or emails but these are rather behind I have some 230 email to sort out but with the work load at present I am not getting time to do much. Anyway in a months time it will be all over and things will then ease up I hope.

Edith was off school today as Gabriella has not been well, she has been having some fever and coughing, a malaria test today came up negative so please pray that whatever it is will it will heal up very soon. John-Luke is doing well though he is not totally settled at school yet. His home work now includes reading and some maths, surprising or not so he seems to do better at the maths than the reading.

Thanks again for all your prayers and support.

God Bless love form us all

Greeting from Tanzania

Hello everyone.

This week looks like another busy week as we continue to settle in here in Dodoma. As the container arrived last week we are still unpacking everything out of the boxes. Edith is busy with the school, but we are grateful to have our own car now as she had been borrowing the programme manager's car each day to get to school except last week when we were with the car in Dar so had to get a taxi each day from Monday to Wednesday. Paul is busy in finance and this weeks needs to finish the file for June and try and complete July accounts as well and if all goes well start on the 2011 budget as well.

The children are doing well at school and enjoying life here though they miss friends from Mongolia at times.

Thanks for your prayers and support for us all.

God Bless and love form Paul, Edith, John-Luke and Gabriella

Last Week

Sorry for not having sent you any news this week.

Paul travelled down to Dar es Salaam on Monday with Ian the programme manager to visit the MAF office in Dar, it is around 450km and about six hours driving. As well as visiting the office Paul went to look for a car for us here. Ian travelled back on Wednesday but Paul stayed on as he had found a car and waiting for it to be registered. The guy registering it thought it might take until Friday but actually finished it on Wednesday which was very fast. So on Thursday Paul drove back with the car and Ruben the MAF IT manager who had come down to also work in the office to sort out some issues there. Ruben had managed to get a seat on a MAF flight and would have gone back on Friday with the plane but as he had finished decided to come back with Paul. They arrived back around 9pm Thursday night.

Then on Friday after many false starts our container arrived, though having asked several times of how they intended getting the container off the lorry here they turned up with nothing so our staff went to find a crane but in the process Paul decided to empty the container whilst it was still on the lorry so it would be lighter for the crane. They had just finished unloading and moving the boxes etc to the house when the crane arrived so they could move the container to the place we needed it put. They had been worried as the crane was only meant to lift 3 tones and the container with things in came to 3.7 Tonnes so it worked out well unloading it.

Please pray for our family in particular Paul's Auntie Mary and his Cousins, his Uncle Richard died very suddenly this week. Please pray for strength and the Lord's comfort at this time of lose.

Thanks for your prayers and support.

School Starts

This week School starts so today John-Luke and Gabriella both started a new year at School. John-Luke has started in year 1 and Gabriella Preschool. Gabriella has as one of her Teachers Miss Edith also known as Mummy. So today was Edith's first day back at teaching after preparing last week.

As for Paul this week he needs to try and catch up a bit. He has June accounts to finish off and complete and July to start as well as start to prepare for the 2011 budget. In addition he has management meetings with the management team and possibly next week he will travel with Ian the New Programme Manager to Dar Es Salaam to visit our office there as also try and find a car to purchase.

Please pray for us all as we start all these New jobs that we will be given wisdom as to what to do first, as we learn new systems. Please also pray that we might see our container this week, it was due to leave the docks on Friday but we still have not heard anything anything definite and finally please pray that we are able to find a suitable car that will service us well whilst here in Tanzania.

Thank you so much for your love, prayers and support.

God Bless you all.