VISIT TO CAIA, NAMPULA and LUAHA in JANUARY 2015

 You will see in the next few pictures that the drive north to Nampula was just beautiful.

 This began our journey outside of Dondo on  EN 1.  (This is a main road [1 of 2] to Marromeu)

 We drove about 300 kilometers on this road to reach Caia.

 As you can see, even when we had some oil. it was still 'off-roading'

 President and Sister Kretly visited with this group of villagers on Sunday morning.  They were such a happy group of people.

 It just poured rain as the meeting ended.  They all lined up in the shelter of the thatch overhang to see us off to Luaha.

 We crossed the Zambeze River.  The rains hadn't come heavy yet, but when they do this area is about 3 times larger.  The toll bridge was built by South Africa.

 This is the Luaha group.  They are a large family unit and have built themselves a nice meeting hut in the center of their village.  It was so much fun to be there.  They love President and Sister Kretly!

 Here I'm visiting with President Lucas.  He is the patriarch of the family.  He joined the church as a young man in Portugal.  All the members of his family married and were baptized two years ago and President Kretly created their group.

 Sister Kretly

 As we were leaving, President Lucas had 4 young men carry over a huge sack of corn.  They raise corn as their main food and income source. He gave it to President Kretly as their offering to the Church and President Monson.  What a sacrifice that is for them, they have so little and live such humble lives.  But they were so happy and wonderful to be with for 2 days.

They loved seeing my pictures of our family.  They were all impressed with our 7 children, spouses and grandchildren.  They were also impressed with the fact that we had been married for 46 years.  They liked that I wore a capulana and tied one on my head.