The Donholm House

The Donholm house. Oct 25th

It is Friday and here is my first report. Last night Alan and I went to Pastor Lazarus and Elizabeth’s house. As we arrived at the living room door Jessica came out to meet us, so did Abby and then Desi.(their girls) It was good to see Jessica, she had grown much taller and she was not as shy as before. We had already been there in the morning and Carol was there to meet us. Carol is no longer living there but working as a house girl somewhere else. Jessica was at school and Abby and Desi were too shy in the morning to greet us.

We returned at night and brought them dinner and the nine of us ate together, Lazarus. Elizabeth, Laz’s mum, Victoria their house girl, Jessica, Abby and Desi, Alan and I. We brought them deep fried chicken which was almost everyone’s favourite and they enjoyed the meal. It was good to watch the children, Jessica was behaving like a very good older sister, she is now 14. They were sitting at one end of the living room together while the adults ate around the coffee table. Desi was sitting at Jessica’s lap, Jessica was eating and helping Abby as well as feeding Desi all at the same time. They look very happy together. They told us Jessica is doing well at school and that she is very smart. We will be going to visit Wilbroda today, the report is that she is recovering well and should be coming home. I don’t know if you all knew this, but the last two days before we left Toronto, Laz had been sending us emails telling us to urgently send money as Wilbroda was in hospital with pneumonia.( pneumonia is the 2 largest killer of children in Africa birth being the first)

A brief note to let you all know that we are alive and well, we did not get sick and I have recovered from the tiredness of the trip having slept 4 hours the day we arrived. Alan still needs to make up for lost sleep but he is running on God’s power . Please pray for Wilbroda.