Greetings from Africa!
Hi to our children, sweet grandchildren, and great friends back home! 
We hope things are going well for all of you. It's probably beautiful Fall weather back there now. It's just moving into Spring here and everyone is hoping for some very needed Spring rains. But, it hasn't happened for almost 3 years now. It's hard to imagine that by the time we finally get home from Africa and a week in France along the way that it will be almost winter in Boise!
Our strange experiences continue here all the time. Like wondering if the old washing machine and dryer in our missionary apartment here is going to finally give out. But, then just finding out that the other 8 tenants in this apartment complex do their washing in a tub on the roof and hang their clothes up there, too! That's rather ironic 
considering our apartment is one of the nicer ones in town and the tenants include people with cars and relatively wealthy people like a fishing boat captain, an Indian family, etc. We pile our trash with the others in small grocery store bags by the front fence and hope it get picked up weekly, which sometimes it doesn't It's also very nice that the guards wash our car every day or so!
There is a resident cost here and then there is a foreigner cost to people like us, which is about 5 times as high. The local businesses really see the whites coming and try pretty hard to make you pay top dollar and much more unless you are smart enough to bargain.
Whoops! Emergency phone call from the Red Cross...got to run!
Love you,
Dick and Lawana
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