Visitors from Indiana & An African Wedding Experience

Thursday before we left for Israel Daddy got a call from some former Amish in Indiana.  We met these friends while we were in Jasper, Texas last year.  They were coming to Lancaster County to visit some of their family and friends so we invited them to come spend Friday night at our house.

 

Susan and I & Emma and Lillia

 

 Joy and Mary

 

 Two families came to visit; Ike and Mary & Samuel and Hannah

 

 Samuel and Jonas decided that they were going to learn to unicycle and in the short time they were here they learned!

 

 Samuel decided to try the giraffe unicycle too

 

 Samuel, Jonas, and Joshua

 

 A total of fourteen came to visit...

Isaac and Mary came with five of their fourteen children, Emma, Samuel, Mary, Levi, and Elisabeth.

Samuel and Hannah and their three children, Suzie, Levi, and Elisabeth and Susan and Jonas, who live with Samuel and Hannah.

 

They left on Saturday morning to visit some of their family and friends in the area.

Daddy, Mommy, Joshua, Benjamin, and I left within the hour for a wedding in New Jersey!

 

 Faith's family, originally from Kenya, has gone to our church for years.
She married Thompson who is from Zimbabwe in a beautiful ceremony along a scenic river in New Jersey.

 

 Thompson & Faith with Faith's family

 

Joseph and Moses, two of Faith's brothers, with the couple.

 

Before Benjamin was born Faith's family moved so Sister Catherine had never gotten to see him.  Sister Catherine is such a sweet lady, she and mom have been good friends for years. Sometimes in church she would turn around and just take David when he was a baby and hold him during the service then give him back at the end!

 

We left the wedding and Mommy dropped us off at the airport to catch the

 9:30 p.m. flight to Tel Aviv, Israel!  The next posts will be about our trip :)

 

~Kaitlyn