Spring Break and Good News

This past week was Spring Break for Joey so we headed up to Bear Lake to work for the week. We actually had a lot of fun. We have been going up to Bear Lake on our free weekends to help Chuck and Ginger (Joey's brother and sister-in-law) work on their house. The original remodeling was for the master bathroom but since the house is full of construction supplies and they are living somewhere else for the time being they decided that they wanted to change the texture of the walls and do some other small projects. We spent the week painting closets and skimming and adding texture to the walls and ceilings of the master bedroom, kitchen, and the living room.While there we had a power outage one night, it didn't last too long but it was still fun to sit around in the dark talking about how long we would last without electricity.
Spring Break can't all be about work so we had to have some fun. We invited a bunch of people up to Bear Lake to stay at a cabin and have a movie marathon. Friday ended up being Joey and I just hanging around watching Psych but that night we had some friends show up and we watched movies and chowed down on snacks! It was a lot of fun.

Saturday Morning we saw Moose on the side of the road.

Saturday night we had a Birthday Party for 3 babies turning 1 year old. It was a lot of fun to see all the presents they got and to watch them "eat" their cake. Zaxton and James were a little hesitant and didn't want anything to do with the cake, while Gracie was having fun shoving her hands into the cake.

Zaxton, Gracie, and James with their cake.

Acting a little more interested.

Now to the Good News:

  While we were in Ghana, Joey gave a loan to Dompreh who was the manager of a Pharmacy in Abomosu. We got news the other day that he has paid off his loan! We were super excited to hear this wonderful news! We have also got updates on the other loans, almost everyone is making their monthly payments only with a few who have missed a payment here or there but everything looks very optimistic except for the loan for a Sugar Cane farm for Ben Boadu. The rainy season was very bad for him and his farm was flooded and he was unable to save his crops. His family has moved to Accra the Capital of Ghana to find work and Ben still travels to Abomosu once a week to check on his farm and see if there is anything he can do. We knew the farm would be a hit or a miss but since many of the loan candidates were looking into expanding their farms we thought it would be worth while to loan one farm to see how beneficial it would be.

Dompreh's Pharmacy

Abbie, Spencer, Dompreh, Joey, and Em