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Dear Friends and Family,

Already our time here in Africa is coming to a close!!! We leave for Lilongwe airport tomorrow at 6am. This week has been pretty hectic, and we're really sorry that we are just now getting to post some stuff. Anyway, here are some pictures from this past week with captions for you to enjoy:


Monica making a big pot of Nsima for dinner one night this week.


Two of our favorite kids, Nellice and Stanley. We love this picture because Nellice has the most infectious and adorable laugh ever! Just looking at this picture makes us remember her laugh.


Uncle Nick singing "we are walking in the light of God." The kids here just adore their "Uncle Nicky" and they seem to follow him around where ever he goes. Sometimes in the evenings we can hear the kids talking in their cottages, and we often hear long strings of tumbuka with "Uncle Neeky" or "Auntie Reybeykah" thrown in the middle of it, followed by giggles and laughter.


Rebecca and one of her kindergartners, Eves. Eves and others did Rebecca's lovely hair.


Some singing during Gazebo music time on Wednesday. Mama Alice is leading this Tumbuka song. The words to this song ask "how low can you bow down in prayer to the Lord Jesus?" Its kind of a "how low can you go" game with a spiritual twist. I love it. :-)


Music class on Thursday. "We are dancing in the light of God." Rebecca is wearing a typical Malawian Chitenji, and and Nick is wearing his matching traditional Malawian shirt.


Starting weith Rebecca and going clockwise: Auntie Rebecca, Nellice, Bright (the crazy one) Gerald, Yamikani, and Maria. Winnie and Stanley are hiding in the middle.


Starting with Nick and going clockwise: Uncle Nicky, Stanley, Bertha, Winnie, Justina

In the van on the way to the Crisis Nursery. The Crisis Nursery is a place that takes babies in dire situations and cares for them until they are 18 months old, at which point they are either sent back to their families or sent to other facilities. Rafiki in Malawi has gotten 3 babies from here. Once in a while we take some of the Rafiki kids to go play with the babies. It is very touching and precious to see our children comfort and love these little babies, because the Rafiki kids came out of situations not unlike the babies from the nursery.

A Crisis Nursery baby looks up to a Tiwonge, a Rafiki child. This was such a touching moment.

Rebecca and Nick in a sea of babies. :-)

(To the Frye Fam - don't you think Rebecca looks like Aunt Deedy in this picture?)

Rebecca playing with a Crisis Nursery baby.

The African sunset behind our house. The colors are pretty accurate - the sun was even more deep of an orange, though. On a clear night the colors are breath taking - you'd think you were watching the Lion King, or something.

So there's some happenings from this week. The kids also put on a Noah's Ark pageant on Friday, arranged and directed by Nick and Rebecca. We will put those pictures up as soon as we can.

Thank you so much for your support over the past month. Please pray for safe travels for us, and say an extra prayer for the safety of our luggage. The past few missionaries to fly out of Lilongwe have had luggage troubles. Tawonga Chomene! (Thank you very much in Tumbuka)

Love, Nick and Rebecca