Yeah!

Jake made it home safe and sound on Wednesday, it was so good to see him and of course the boys went crazy. Jude just stared at him :). Jake says that he's changed so much in the two weeks, that Jude's a lot bigger, he now has his top two teeth and he's crawling too. Anyway it's soooo nice to be back as a family again. Jake had an awesome time in India, he was kinda expecting it to be like Africa but it wasn't at all. A lot more built up in the cities and a lot poorer in the villages. People weren't quite as friendly and they never shout out at you as they do all the time in Cameroon (White Man!). But they were really receptive and had great turn outs to the crusades at night. They saw hundreds of people saved, so the pastors are super busy following up all the new converts. Jake got to be Pharmacist during the medical outreaches. He said he had a hard time with the language, he wanted to speak French to everyone that didn't speak English and of course they had no idea what he was talking about :).

Jake also got to meet Praveen (child in top picture, and oh yes, that is sweat!). He's an orphan that we've sponsored for the last few years, we always pray for him and get his letters but it was so awesome that Jake got to meet and spend some time with him. How cute is he!

Also the bottom picture is Jake with a water buffalo, he said they're everywhere. It funny because Jake was kinda scared of them and this is about as close as he would get to them (and he grew up on the farm). There was a lady on the team that is in her mid 70's (a real trooper) and Jake was looking though her pictures and she had one with her arm over a buffalo's neck :). Jake was pretty impressed.

Thursday we will be back on the road heading to Texas. Since Jake got back we've been visiting a lot of people, been really good. Had a lovely lunch with a family from Church today that support us, they're a real blessing! Great to have "family" wherever you go.