No rhyme or reason - just pictures

 This cute little girl and her mother were waiting at the church house in Palmeira.  

 Typical street scene throughout our area.

 Shopping is along the side of the roads.  The wares are placed out every morning and most close shop around 8 in the evening.  Some have plastic overhead in case of rain, some do not.

 These handcarts are used for everything, as you can see.

 Had to throw this one in...our mission van us usually full of Elders going somewhere from something.  Elders Lynn, Ensolado, Cummings, Bender, Stubbs, Galland,  Ebmeyer ,Stubbs and Allen.

 This is Zone Conference the 28th of March at the Palmeiras Chapel.

 Are these two little ones so cute?

 The little boys play with tires and  bicycle rims.

 We see everything tied to the top of the chapella (the bus system) and off they go.

This is President Kretly.  We were at the Matola (in the Maputo area) chapel for an open house and he spent at least 20 minutes with these children.  They are so cute.

Church Garden

When we first saw the grounds around the Manga chapel, we were a little dismayed.  The space on each side and the back looked unkempt and over-grown.  We wondered about it because the rest of the grounds were lovely and well manicured.  

We have posted pictures of the rest of the grounds before (with the chameleon) in older posts.  

In another post I showed this spot with a woman from one of the branches who was pulling rice from this area.  The rice was growing throughout and just after the rainy season.  Now it has these wonderful garden greens growing.

We see members leaving every Sunday (that we are there)  with their hands full of produce.  It is really great!  I think it is a great use of the area.  

Scenes

Couldn't resist taking this shot.  I have had several items sewn here.  The tailors (alfaiate) or seamstress (costureira) I've used have a small tiny shops, but many are just set up under the trees where they have a little shade and oft as not, it is in a different spot next time.

We buy our tangerines and oranges from sellers like this along the streets.  This is Sister Snelson and look at those cute little girls sitting on the wall.

When we arrived at church on Sunday, I went ahead and Larry got stopped by this little girl.  She came right up and hugged his arm and talked and talked.  

I'm not a huge shrimp fan, but I do eat then.  This is called a Camarao Azul (Blue shrimp).  They are huge and have these long blue front legs.  They are fresh water shrimp and are caught in the rivers up between us and Chimoio.  It looked terrible to me and we paid Paulo to clean them for us.  I broiled them in garlic butter and they were really good.  A lighter taste than our other shrimp from the ocean here.