November 14, 2007

Just for the Fun of It!

Have you ever wondered what missionaries do for fun? You know, how do they let there hair down so to speak? Well some of us dress up funny, play games and sit around a fire roasting our bread. Sound like fun yet? These are pictures from our latest Harvest Party that takes the place of Halloween for us! We had a lot of fun that night. We all make Hobo dinners and wrap them up good and tight in foil and someone gets a fire going so we have good coals for cooking. After the coals are ready we place our foil wrapped dinners on to cook, it takes probably about 30 mins and then you have hot steaming dinners of possibly chicken and potatoes and various vegetables or whatever you would like to make your Hobo dinner out of. While we wait for them to cook we sit around and talk, love up some of our newest babies and toddlers and play games. We played the game where you spin around in circles with your head on top of a bat handle then try and walk a straight line back to your team for the next silly person to give it a try. This is a good game to do before you eat. There was some sack races and even a large sling shot to shoot water balloons. In the one picture we are sitting around the fire roasting our bread. This was a neat treat that our EBC (Evangelical Brothern Church) friends taught us. You make regular white bread dough, you find fresh, thin, green bamboo poles to wrap your bread on and then find a comfortable place around the fire and when you bread is done it should be a nice golden brown and will very easily slip off the end of your bamboo pole. The bread is very delicious! And to top off our evening there is always plenty of nice and naughty deserts brought and we always seem to have some marshmallows show up (thanks to you folks because we can't buy marshmallows here, they come from church family back home) and we have at time had all the right stuff to make s'mores. Maybe if you come for a visit some time you can join us for a Harvest Party. Anyone recognise the old lady in the picture above?

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