Photos!

To save weight, I didn't bring my camera this trip (also because we have so many people here with cameras!). But I can't resist taking photos, so my BlackBerry and its totally inferior camera have been pressed into action. The good thing is that these are much smaller files, so I don't worry too much about exceeding our data limits with them. Here are photos of Darius (aka Manyigugu) and his tools, a generous gift from some Missouri friends of Lui Diocese last summer, and of the new generator, which the Diocese of Missouri funded in September when the old one broke and was unfixable.


Here is Darius, standing by the office with his tools at his feet. Then some closeups of the tools, which include a socket set, lots of wrenches, a grinding wheel, a filter wrench (well, something for getting a filter off), and a few other things I don't remember. The goal still is to outfit him fully and build him a shop with a very strong lock so he can offer roadside assistance -- and earn money -- here on the "highway" from Juba to Rumbek and on to Khartoum.

If you use precision tools, you might not be surprised that this is $500 worth of tools. I looked at the price tags and was amazed. Of course things are more expensive in Juba than they are at home because it costs so much to import them...






Recognizing how shallow this is of me, I have to say I love the look of the new generator! It is so sleek and high-tech :)

Meanwhile, I will just say that we are having a nice, calm Saturday. The final art project is happening with the Fraser Cathedral Sunday School right now, and the parish nurses are addressing the pastors. I am installing Firefox and AVG on various laptops in the office, and I'm trying to figure out why the diocesan emails won't receive mail. Big day.