6 Years and Counting

So Saturday is our 6 year Anniversary! This is just a little list that tells a little something about our past 6 years.

6 Years:

10 moves
9 jobs
8 pets
7 trips to the beach
6 cars
5 Christmas's
4 cell phones
3 countries (lived in)
2 states
1 happy couple



So we will be going to the capital city of Cameroon, which is Yaounde, for our anniversary. It is only a 2 1/2 hour drive away and the only place close by to find a decent restaurant and hotel. We will be staying at one of nicest hotels in Yaounde (Mont Febe) on Friday night and we plan to have dinner at a restaurant called Cafe de Yaounde. I already know what I am going to order: Le capitain forestier, haricot verts, et pommes frites ( a really good fish in a white cream sauce, with green beans and french fries) Yummy!! I'm sure it's going to be a great week-end!


Now for an update:

We are finally in our house in Ebolowa. We are getting settled in. We finally got some living room furniture after being in our house for over two weeks, but it's not like we can just run to the nearest furniture store and pick-out some stuff. We had our furniture hand made and the wood it is made out of was actually a tree in the rain forest only a couple of weeks ago. We have a small little stove and a really big refrigerator (american size) which works when we have power (which hasn't been very often lately). We have a well and running water, but no hot water. We actually have a nice bed and dresser that we were able to buy from some other missionaries and we even have a guest bed ready for whenever you want to come visit. Our house is really nice and roomy. It is located just outside of town, in a village that is becoming part of the town now. It isn't a very long walk to our market, where they sell all sorts of fruits, veggies, fish, plantains, and all sorts of just stuff. We really love our house and our neighbors. Everyone seems to be really friendly and there are several families from the church that live in our neighborhood. So God has really been good to us and provided all of our needs. With that said I would also like to say a big "Thank You" to the sunday school classes and all the people who have sent us money to help set-up our house. We really appreciate it.

The beginning of October we have our Book of Hope training and then we will be setting up and training in our city to have a Book of Hope distribution in the schools. We will also begin traveling to all of the churches in the Southern Province of Cameroon, which is our main area of ministry, since we are the only missionaries in the south. We have vision to really encourage and help the churches that are established as well as planting new churches that are so desperately needed in so many villages. Please continue to pray for us that God will give us favor and open the doors to the schools for Book of Hope and that He will give us wisdom and guideance as we begin to plant new churches.

Clarification concerning the 3 things list

In reference to three things lists comment listed below, we are sorry if we offended any mother in laws or anyone in general with the comment. It was meant only as a joke and we really love our mother in laws and listen to almost everything they say.

Thanks Moms for all you do for us. We love you!

Joel and Kristen