These are the animals we walk past and live with. We've also seen a jackal but could not get a picture.

Whether is getting warmer and dust in air a little thicker. There are a few clouds each day. The rainy season is approaching, usually beginning mid March.

Walking the hospital compound we can hear multiple languages in just a few minutes. English, Pygeon English, Kom, French and sometimes other languages from the Fulani's or other ethnic groups. Our priest, nurses and many others move between 3 or 4 languages without any hesitation. It's amazing to hear.

Our day starts at 430 am to get ready for 6 am mass.  Michael assist most days and preaches on occasion.  The last few days we are working together in the outpatient clinic.  We see a wide variety of patients to include families.  Reneal is very good at taking doctors orders from Michael :), and Michael is enjoying that.  We go home for lunch and Michael returns to help in the compounding nurses clinic or on the ward until later afternoon and Reneal is spending time at the orphanage.

On Sunday we traveled with Fr Cletus to two of his several outstations/parish mission churches.  Michael assisted at the masses.  The women loved Reneal and gathered around her in a circle singing "greetings sister, welcome" in their native language.  On the way back we stopped at the Town marked and bought some fabric for an outfit Reneal hopes to have made by a local seamstress.

 5 yo girl carrying her sister to church

 

One of the larger parish outstation (mission parish) churches

View from steps of an outstation church

Reneal on our way to work

Michael with one of our little patients