Home Depot Mozambican Style

This is a typical style of building here.  The walls are filled with small stones.  Some are later plastered over and others are not.  This is a typical size of home.

Piles of wood for purchase

Grass mats for walls, roofs and fences.

This is bundles of thatching for roofs and we have seen some huts that have this on the walls also.

Here are piles of the rocks for sale.  

This woman's work is to break up the larger rocks into the correct size.  The bottom picture was along the roadway in the same area.  These pictures were taken on our drive from Maputo to Beira after out Couples Conference in Swaziland the first week in November.  We are in the Inhasssoro area on the coast.

PEOPLE, PEOPLE AND MORE PEOPLE

We received a new couple here in Beira.  Elder Enos and Sister Sonja De Castro Deus from Curtiba, Brazil.  They will be a  great asset here.  It has been so hard to do leadership training because of the language and they just breezed right in and took over.   We (Snelsons and us) gave a big sign of relief and hugs of gratitude.  He has been a bishop, stake president, temple sealer and now is a Patriarch.  What better couple to do the job!  No more elementary school approaches to training sessions.

Just had to put this picture in.  The tall girl in black and white in the middle is Marianna Agusto from here.  She is at the Provo Temple with her district on her way to Atlanta, Georgia for her mission.  The temple worker is a friend of Sister Snelson and sent this to us.

This is an example of a group of our young men that we just took to the airport to fly out to start their missions.

We see ladies like this every Sunday.  These ladies were walking home right outside our building in Manga.  I asked the lady with the baby if I could take her picture and the others stopped also.  Her little girl was so cute in her white hat!   Their church is called the Good News Church and seems to be very popular in our area.

We were visiting a branch in Magoanine (outside of the Maputo area) and took these pictures. These little babies are just the cutest!!! Here Larry is showing the Primary children the pictures he took of them sing.  

Catching Up

At the end of October we had a visit to our mission from Elder Clayton & Sister Clayton .  We had a wonderful missionary meeting in the morning, lunch and then training and a special adult meeting that afternoon.  It was a Monday afternoon and we sere so excited to see that over 500 people attended.  What a wonderful surprise it was because of a work day and and transportation is not very easy.  This is saying goodby to them at the airport on Tuesday morning.   Elder and Sister Ellis were also visiting, but due to flight problems had already flown out to Maputo.

These three pictures are of craftsmen here in Beira.  We purchased a nativity from then.  As you can see, it was a windy day, very pleasant. 

We just had to take this picture.  Usually the people are just standing, jam packed in the box of the trucks, but this  truck bed had plastic chairs?  Do you think he was able to charge more for the ride?

This is a typical picture (other than our daughter Melissa ) of what a piano lesson is like.  We usually set up 2 or 3 keyboards and other students practice while I give lessons at the bigger organ.  This is in the Manga Chapel.