June: Some other fun things that happened

It was a busy month as we finished school, continued our service and studies, and prepared for convention.  Madi and Ty had some fun dressing up as Grecian people like Paul would have seen.

As you may have noticed, Madi got her hair cut:

And Ty pulled his out on his own his first tooth (he had the bottom 2 taken out at the dentist)!

Right before we left, Raymond took a couple of sisters in the Spanish hall back on some interest he had found while working territory in English.  One of the sisters also speaks Ngobe (the local Native Indian dialect):

It was pretty muddy, so they had to wash off their feet when they got in the boat:

It has been definitely the rainy season..I think it began mid June, went straight through July, and is supposed to start letting up here in mid August...we shall see.  Now although we are from Seattle and I spent a lot of my childhood in the midwest, I have never seen any rain like this...it even filled up the ditch right by the futbol (soccer) field into the middle of the street!

We also had some nice impromtu fun when we came across one of the grandchildren in the park playing baseball...Ty of course jumped right on in:)

The last three shots there were at a nice gathering some of the visiting friends threw at their rented house.  It was such a nice visit and we really miss them.  The entire congregation had fun playing cards, kayaking, yakking:)

The last meeting before we headed to the US was in a form of Guari Guari (pronounced Wadi Wadi), a local Creole.  It is sort of a blend between Jamaican and Belizian Creoles and English. It was amazing especially since we had just completed a survey of the local area about this language.  Many of our visitors loved that this was in "their" language as they stated it.  They felt totally at ease and comfortable listening to the talk:) I have a video, but it doesn't want to download for you to hear:(