Everyone loves our pool

The missionaries are now teaching Janu and Zelia in our apartment. The challenge is that Zelia only speaks Tetun. So the missionaries speak in English and Janu translated into Tetun.  Because the missionaries are speaking in English Cheryl and I can participate.  Like most Timorese couples they are living together without being officially married. Weddings are complicated here. Once they get that taken care of at least Janu will join the church very quickly.
We have had Janu and Zelia and some of their neighbors as well as Domingas and her family over to go swimming. The problem is no one knows how to swim. Everyone stays in the shallow area. In this country there are very few lakes and most of the rivers are very shallow. The ocean is very shallow for a long distance and so no one swims. Most of the people are afraid to go too deep in the ocean because of the crocodiles. There are very few swimming pools here and so no one knows how to swim.
I am a member of the United States Embassy Security Group. We meet about every six months with one of the members of the embassy staff and review security issues. They ask for input from us. I am not a big contributor here. Most other members are heads of larger organizations. It is comforting that the issues we talk about are very minor. Most of the problems here are just nuisance types of problems. At the present time this is a pretty safe place to be.
I was running and tripped over this little pipe. Got a lot of scabs from this accident.

Today was Easter Sunday. Cheryl brought all the members of the congregation a little Easter gift of chocolate eggs. They don't do that sort of thing in this country so everyone was quite surprised and grateful to get the gift.

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