June 29th, 2007 (written by Jason)

Hey all. Back again with a brand new addition! After a large snow storm earlier this week we are in town for the funeral of our village mother. It is a weird time for us as we have not really thought about what that would be like and what that would entail. Janeen was just saying that she had kind of dealt with it (as we found out about her passing on June 9th) but now that we are about to go and see our village again, that she is unsure how she will react.

I know that it will be a difficult time as this is the first real death that we have had to deal with. It is a strange feeling as we think of death in totally different perspective than than they do here. We have had friends lose some family members from home and the perspective that the people here have on it is, get over it. It is just death after all. I mean we see funerals every weekend as they are publicized with the huge rented tents that people get to honor the family members.

Anyway, this is on the heels of some other rather disappointing news. We found out this week that the Lesotho government has put an indefinite hold on all adoptions both in country and international. This comes as a surprise to us and it is a little disheartening as we had really gotten excited about the possibility. We have not given up hope yet but we are not really sure where this will put us in 18 months. So some prayers and petitions on our behalf would go a long way right now.

We do have a small (or rather large) bright spot in our future. We are headed to the islands of Mauritius in little less than 2 weeks. It will be a nice break from the inconsistent and some what bitter cold of Lesotho. We are going with some friends of ours here and are really excited. I think I am even going to finally get to try Kite Surfing (pending the wifes approval).

Anyway that is pretty much the scoop this week. Hope you are all well and happy.

All the Best
Jason