Hey again everyone! Good news for those of you not on Facebook! They got the internet up and running, but unfortunately my mom is having trouble accessing the blog from there. She has asked me to update the blog with the Facebook post so don't worry about not getting to know whats going on! Anyway here is her first post!
-Connor

Bon soile, (I think is how you spell it), good afternoon from hope clinic! We are well and fully enjoying the African lifestyle! We are finally beginning to be on the right time zone and are adjusting to the heat and extremely high humidity. Fortunately, it is actually the very beginning of the rainy season so we have experienced the drenching rain storms that lighten the humidity for short periods of time. The thunder was a little overwhelming last night! I've had a lizard jump out of a cupboard at me, sending me screaming/running and sending Dawn OpBroek jumping to the counter, a spider crawling down from my hair over my eye while eye was getting water from the special filter, again much screaming and water ending up everywhere!! The children here are amazingly beautiful and cheerful here, even the little boy carrying a live rat by the tail and playing with it like a pet! We are being treated like royalty; is hard to accept sometimes. It feels so undeserved when we see how little they have here. Jeff, Marc McAllister, and Dawn are seeing many patients, Caden has helped me and Rachel in the storeroom as we unloaded and checked in all the bags of supplies we were able to bring. It made them soooo happy! We will be unloading the laparoscopic equipment tomorrow and trying to get it installed and ready to go. I am able to teach English to the women on the clinic grounds and they are teaching me French! We love sharing Jesus' love with the patients waiting to see the docs. It's amazing, they sit on concrete benches ALL day waiting to be seen, for surgery, or for their family. No complaints, no whining, only smiles and joy as we say bonjour! and tickle the children! We enjoy chapel every morning, joining in their continual praise and worship. They are constantly grateful for what God is doing. We are so grateful to be here to encourage them that people in The Dalles, OR are loving them and praying for them ALL the way around the world. `THANK YOU ` for being a part of that, each and every one of you!! We are thankful for our health so far, our safety through the many days of difficult travel, and our ability to help and encourage here. Internet is very intermittent, so I will post when I can and will try to get some pics up next time! Until then, au revoir!