People-The Most Exciting Part.

This is Moses. The Smith's adopted him from Zambia when he was a baby. The adoption story is amazing and a miracle from God. His story can be found here. He is 5 now and living it up as a curious little boy in Africa.

This is Moses' oldest sister, Hannah. She is 12.

And this is their middle child, Mia. She is holding a bird with a hurt wing that she had great compassion on. She tried to save its life, but a day later she witnessed the cat eating it. It was very tragic for everyone, especially Mia.

This is Kara. She is my age and she has been in Ethiopia through SIM for 3 months. She just extended for another 2 months. She is a nurse and was such a blessing to be around. She is eating sugar cane like a champ.

The missionary compound has a ministry that takes in babies whose mother's have died in childbirth and they nurse them to health for 6 months until they can go back to their families. This is one of those babies. SO CUTE!

On a Saturday we decided to take a donkey cart ride to a nearby village and when I say donkey cart ride it means exactly what it says! Anytime foreigners (white people) go anywhere they attract a following. This is a picture of our donkey cart being followed by all types of natives.

The next 5 pictures are just random photos of people and kids that I saw on my trip. Nobody wears underwear in the bush and most kids don't wear pants so don't be to alarmed when you see a kid pantless...it is definitely part of the African experience.

This mother is carrying her child on her back, which is how all mothers transport their babies. It is fun to watch them get it all situated.

Below is a picture of the school I went to in a local village called Dawe. This would have been an amazing chance for pictures, but I hardly got any because me being white and being there was a huge distraction in itself to the learning process, so I had to be discreet with my camera.

To the right is the missionary who runs the Langano school, Ms. Joan. Beside her is a boy joing us on the way to the school in Dawe. Once a week she walks out to this school and teaches for them. It was about an hour walk.

This is a really nice guy we met in a souvenir shop. He laughed at our attempt to speak his language.

Few people ride horses in this area, but this woman did. She had ridden her horse to the clinic that day.