Travel and Visitors

Honey bees have an impressive diversity of local blooming trees to work for months around Jembo.

Monday about 5:10 am we left for Livingston to visit Immigration for the 9th time in the last 7 months. 

It worked out that we were able to give a ride to Bishop Judian's wife and young daughter. 

Garden tour

At Zimba mission we dropped off Mrs. Bishop and picked up her sister who would bring the daughter to Livingstone.

By 9:12 a.m. we met up with Reverend Benson at Immigration. He has helped some students here navigate Immigration.

Well not only was there paperwork still needed for Fritz's update, an important paper had not been submitted with Cory's 2-year work permit application and his temporary was canceled.

Last week when Cory was paying for the permits, which is the first step to submit a completed application,  the internet connection dropped right after the credit card was billed. So Kris' application did not get submitted and her temporary work permit remains valid.

Cory's chia not confined to a clay pot animal

Due to medical issues we were forced to wait until early afternoon for the staff in Lusaka to be able to send paperwork.

Thankfully, shortly after 4:30 p.m. we left with Fritz's passport stamped and a letter explaining Cory's situation so that we can leave on Feb. 27th for the USA.

We grabbed some good pizza and ice cream and then headed home.

Because we were so late we were able to help Mrs. Bishop return from Zimba, arriving back to Jembo shortly after 9 p.m.

Getting the remaining nursery trees ready for the
 long dry season

We were able to give Mrs. Bishop a garden tour on Tuesday morning between chapel and our Tonga lessons, which allowed her to see some of the plants she had been asking about as she had chauffeured Cory around Lusaka early in our time here.

Then today we toured the garden and orchards again with Dr. Henry and Dr. Alfred, here visiting for meetings.

Tomorrow Cory will have a short agricultural meeting with the Bishop and other members of the committee before Tonga class.

Friday we plan a short trip to a nearby school/church we've not seen, dropping off our Tonga teacher who needs to attend a meeting there; and once we return home Cory will change the oil in the truck.

Feb. 9

We will be leaving Zambia in less than two weeks so we will be busy working on our to-do list so we can leave well: planting a few plants, organizing nursery plants so that they can be watered easy; putting together a small notebook on jobs that need doing around the yard, garden, and orchards; one last class to teach, packing......

Lord willing we will be back here in early July to attend graduation and pick off where we left off. 

Sharing plants

P.S. Now looking back at our time here I think that the Lord intentionally allowed those 9 trips to Lusaka or Livingston just to get us out of Jembo. Every single of the first 8 trips we returned with the back of the truck full of trees and plants. Left to our own devices we'd not gone on so many trips or visited so many plant/tree nurseries. So there's the silver lining...along with other shopping.