It has taken awhile, but my heart holds this truth -- There are no regrets, no mistakes, just anticipation of God's faithfulness and goodness. So here are the last slides, just found, of family and village friends. More stories with most pictures too.
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| Proof that once upon a time, Bill actually had hair. |
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| In front of our last house in Kathmandu. |
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| Jenny's 2nd birthday cake and celebration! |
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| Jenny's first birthday in the village: Grandma Leal was there and we all had homemade ice cream--the first the villagers had ever tasted.! |
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| I love this one. This was our kitchen in the village and our dearly loved Kunti is in it A British friend named Julie came to visit and painted the wall for us. Our sink was that pail at the end corner. We had straw mats on our cowdung and mud floors. |
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| This was how we got to the airstrip in Bharatpur to catch a flight to Kathmandu. We caught a bus in Tandi when there was one. That's Bill's Dad with Kunti, Jenny and I. |
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| Jonathan and I in Pokhara with the Himalayas behind us. |
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| Kathmandu from the air....1974 |
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| Another one of Jenny and the flowers. She's always loved them! |
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| Jonathan and Jenny introducing the two Henderson kids to one of the village goats. Dudley is a dentist and came down to the village to help the village people with their dental problems. He pulled a lot of teeth in our backyard! |
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| Jonathan and an amazing man we called Malidai. He worked for us five years and helped our garden to grow and so many other helpful things. |
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| Kissan and Hathani and their first two kids, Santa Kumar and Mina. |
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| Our landlord, ManSingh, had two wifes. We gave them fabric from the US and they made matching blouses. They didn't live for long in the same house. |
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| My mom came to Kathmandu when Jenny was born. 2 women I love very much! |
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| One of my favorites--kids in the flowers and Malidai in the distance tending our vegetables....and strawberry plants |
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| Not all bridges were safe to cross. |
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| Kissan, his dad and younger brother |
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| Bill and Kissan at work on analyzing the Tharu language. |
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| Kissan was baptized shortly after we left and followed Jesus all his life until he had a heart attack at age 50. We look forward to seeing him in Heaven! |
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| When we were expelled from Nepal, our whole group of 100 worked very hard 24 hours a day. We took shifts printing recently translated Scriptures. Here I'm working on the gospel of Mark in Tharu. |
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| Some precious village kids! |
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| Bill and Jonathan and I think one of our rabbits! Jonathan called them "hummies" and when we had to kill one to eat it, he combined his Nepali-English vocabulary to tell us, "Hummy sidhiyo" which means quite literally, "The bunny is all gone or finished." I love watching and listening to children's language development! |
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| Jonathan loved books from an early age. Anyone recognize the book? |
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| Jonathan pumping water for us from the one village pump we had installed. |
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| Bill's parents came to visit when Jenny turned one year old. :) |
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| Mom and Daughter in matching dresses |
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| Jenny and Melinda Hugoniot celebrating 2nd birthdays together. They were due the same day, and born 10 days apart. |
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| Jenny, tinker toy, and friendly chicken later to become dinner! |
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| Jonathan's tinker toy creation :) |
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| This was how we got places more quickly than walking. |
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| Wake up, Daddy! |
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| Christmas with Trudingers and Sewards--a roast pig on top of Trudingers' house. Our house is in the background. |
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