Seated (left to right): Mallory, Nathan, Alan, Stan, Tommy
Standing (l-r): David, Jill, Stephanie, Sean


Tonight we (all the journeymen) went to the Dickard house for Nathan Dickard’s birthday. Nathan turned 10 years old today. So to celebrate the occasion we were invited over to eat the meal of Nathan’s choosing, “noodley stuff” as he called it. It was a great meal (like every meal at the Dickard house) that was topped off with a most excellent chocolate cake which was baked by Sean, one of Nathan’s older brothers. Sean is somewhat famous around here for his baking skills.

Sean putting candles in Nathan’s yummy birthday cake.



Nathan blowing out his candles.

Unfortunately, Nancy (Nathan’s mom) could not be here to celebrate with us. She left Sunday morning headed to the states for a few weeks. But I know she would be pleased with how the birthday supper went. Tonight was also fun because we had two out-of-town journeymen joining us…..David and Jill, who both live in Kasama (9 hours north). It is always nice to see those guys when they come in to Lusaka.

Stephanie and Jill.

Bright and early in the morning, 5:15am to be exact, we will be headed to the airport. A new journeyman, Chris, will be arriving. He will live here in Lusaka and work with Mallory heading up mountain bike survey kind of work. So you can pray for Chris and the adjustments he will need to make to his life in Africa.


This is me and Stephanie being really funny and showing off our creativity! We talked Mallory into making mother’s day cards with us and he left his on our table when he was finished. Well we decided to turn it into a sign for Chris when he arrives to his new house. Earlier in the week Mallory forbade us to make tooty-fruity girl signs to put up to welcome Chris. So tonight we did a little doctoring to Mallory’s card to his mother. Along with a few minor adjustments, we added glitter, and hearts, and the color pink, and changed “mom” to “Chris”. So now when Chris goes to open his door, he will see a cute little poster from his roomate Mallory welcoming him home that says “love, Mallory.” I hope he likes it because I know me and Stephanie sure do!