Last week

Our translation consultant, Pierre, was with us last week, and we were able to finish checking Isaiah and begin Jeremiah. The afternoons were hot - only once was the temperature under 40°C - but a real answer to prayer was that our cool mornings have continued until now! Beginning the day at 20°C is so much more pleasant than the 30°C we have at breakfast time when hot season really gets going.

Once again, I was very grateful for a good team where no one complains about the heat or gets irritable. Here they are (left to right: Philémon, Pastor Samuel, Pierre).



I was also grateful that the kids behaved themselves for Marc. He is used to having them all morning for school, but usually I look after them in the afternoons. So checking weeks are quite different for the family, since I work full-time for the week.

On Saturday evening we decided to have a rare treat, a meal out at a newish hotel the other side of Kandi, our nearest town. Despite their year in France, our kids do react like African village kids sometimes. As we went into the hotel, Benjy said, "Wow, it's so posh! They have tiles on the floor!" and after eating his meal glued to the Disney Channel on the television, Simon said, "It's as if we were in Cotonou!"