Eton visit on Sunday

After RS ended they were all gathering across the street for lunch.

This is a pretty typical of where people would sleep

Inside their home , checking out the leaky roof/

The cookhouse, they have a separate building that they heat their food in.

Inside the cookhouse, they will light a fire, heat up rocks and then wrap the food in leaves and let it cook all night in the hot rocks.

Where we a;; gathered after church for lunch,

A mom and her youngest of 6 that we dined with,

The feast

This is how you take home the left overs..... find a large leaf, wrap and take!

This is where the women had prepared a lot of th food and they just stayed there and ate.

Our visit to the island of Tanna

These happy faces caught a ride in the back of our truck!! All very legit in Vanuatu

This is an active Volcano, Mt. Yasur. You can go right up on the rim and look in but we did not have time this trip.

You can see the volcano smoking in the back, you hear a rumble and then see the burst of ash,

The workers ready to build a new shelter.

The recipient of the new shelter, this is one of the two widows, this is their home that will be replaced,

This is the gas station on Tanna. the pump runs of a tank that is filled up from barrels of diesel.

The barrels, How do they get these barrels you might ask?

 That's right, they just push those barrels of the ship and some people swim out and push them into shore. Then they just carry them up to the gas station!

The Banyan trees grow everywhere here. The tree does not grow from a seed falling on the ground but must fall on a nearby tree. It then starts to grow on the tree sending roots down and growing until it finally kills the tree it has taken over,

Our first Sunday in Eton

Our chapel

When we arrived at church we were to;d that church would be in the afternoon because a baby had died in the night and that they would be having the funeral first. 

Everything was done right then, service, burial and filled in the grave and cemented the top.

Arrival Week Vanuatu

Lounging on the deck in the new homestead

Our new abode

The view from the deck

Love the children

Shelters to be replaced

The shelters we are building for people whose homes were wrecked in cyclone Pam,

Helping his dad

Hauling the "timber" as they call it

One area we need to cross a small river on this very stable bamboo bridge.

Area President came to check out the project

It can be a bit of an adventure just finding some places