The Dyrud's Great Adventure

Daddy and Justice getting ready to play in the rain A pretty blue lizard; one of the more 'exotic' animals we've seen around our place. Another exotic animal here...... oh wait, it's only Justice and one of our fellow missionaries kitties :-) It's been great to have Rodney home for several weeks as we are still getting settled in to our house here in Bunia. Next week, he leaves on Tuesday morning for Uganda where he and another pilot will complete an inspection on our Cessna 206 airplane. He will return to Bunia on Thursday afternoon, Lord willing. This is one of the many reasons why I am blessed to have a great team of friends here as I am still working on figuring out how to cook from scratch, run our generator, keep tabs on our batteries that run our house, pump rain water from our bottom tank to our top tank when it rains, etc. (They didn't tell the wives that we needed an electrical course before we arrived). I am also blessed to have a husband who can do a...

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Our new house in Bunia! Already feeling big and hot at 25 weeks.... still have a ways to go ;-) Justice enjoying his new room. Rodney helping with a medical emergency flight on his first day! Well, we've been in Bunia since the 3rd week of January and we are still getting settled in to our house and making lots of cultural adjustments. It's great that we have a wonderful team here who is helping us to go shopping, figure out where to get furniture made (one piece at a time) and recommending people who can help us with gardening and house work. Rodney has started flying already and many of his 'training days' have turned into full work days so he's jumping in with both feet! There never seems to be a dull moment here :-) Thank you so much for your prayers and encouragement; they mean so much! Love, Tammi for the 4 of us