POINTE NOIRE MISSIONARY LIFE 2

Dwelling in the neighborhood.

Fish for dinner, a la Congolaise.

A table.

Free for all.

Setting the table.

A game the elders play. If you get caught by the "sign" you must do a push-up. Blocking is done by a single or double eye sign. Too complicated to explain here.

Fish in preparation with garlic and herb stuffing.

Deep fry the fish.

Foo Foo, corn meal rolled into balls.

Oseille in preparation. It is Sorrel, cooked with onion, tomato, and oil and blended. It is eaten with the foo foo to give it some flavor.

New Elder Van Ausdel flew in from Yaounde, after the MTC in Ghana.

Cooks at work.

Elder Mukadi and Elder Brockbank.

Making the corn meal foo foo.

Missionaries at rest at our apartment.

Here's looking at you.

Every day we fill 12 bidons to pour into the cistern. Good exercise. Patrice, our guard comes along to help.

The whole group of elders.

Cooked fish.

African Elders eat with their natural forks after carefully washing them.

Beans, sorrel, fish, and foo foo.

Garbage dump in the neighborhood.

POINTE NOIRE MISSIONARY LIFE 1

Elder Wheatley, Elder Lavering, Ntambwe

The water tower is a landmark for navigation around the city.

Rented building for the Pointe Noire Branch, Mvou-Mvou area.

Entrance to the Pointe Noire Branch building.

Greetings.

Chapel area. The building was remodeled for use by Elder Gates when he served here, I was told.

English class.

How about that T-shirt.

English class students.

Elder Lundberg and Elder Johnson and class members.

Unfinished building across the street from our residence. Buildings are built and completed little-by-little as funds are available.

Well project funded by the Church and supervised by Elder Gates I was told.

Balcony at Church between meetings.

Unknown fruit. The vendor had no idea what it was called. I did not buy or taste.

We found a dugout pirogue abandoned on the beach. The other side was broken away.

A sea urchin the size of a quarter, a sign of ocean life stranded on the beach. The only other living thing we saw were some ghost crabs.

Worker making concrete pots at the beach.

Releasing the mold.

Raelism star representing matter and swastika representing time.

Our friend Misere who is the Raelist.

Hiatt Hotel.

Flower beds maintained by the Church gardener.

Monday morning missionary basketball.

Transfer distribution.

Reading the transfer letters amid much enthusiastic conversation.

Everyone is happy with the changes.

Group picture. Elders (L-R) Johnson, Lundberg, Lavering, Mukadi, kid from the branch, Elder Wheatley, Sister Wheatley, Elder Brockbank, Elder Baker, below Gracia (branch missionary, just got his passport for a f-t mission), Elder Ntambwe,  

The group.

Train station viewed from the phone company entrance.

Art for sale outside the post office.

Closeup of elephant painting that I liked.

We notice more stray dogs here than in Kinshasa.

Post office. We paid the POB bill here. The Wheatleys say packages arrive chewed to pieces by rats and that parents should never send packages because they cost to retrieve them.

Casino Grocery store close to the internet store, the small store with the red banner sign where we pay for the network which is pretty good when it is up. I was able to download Libre Office which I had tried to download several times in Kinshasa without success.

Closer view of Casino SM, and the internet store.

Fish drying in the yard of Max and Lodi where we were invited to dinner.

Lodi and daughter Divine.

Max, Lodi, Nante, Divine, Prince (budding artist)

The lake, laundry, swimming hole that we visited.

The lake.

Panorama. Compressed Lodi's face who was standing too close by extremity right.

Max and Divine.

Evening sky.

Kids and dad rode in the back.

Dinner started with avocado onion salad, very good.

Lodi made clothes for the Wheatleys who are departing.

Al together.

A bit out of focus, but look at those pig tails, such a darling.