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Ellyn

Ellyn has spent quite a bit of time the past couple months helping some of the other ladies decorate their homes. She's very good at that, and the results are always amazing to see. We live in a remote place without all the 'comforts' of the US, so it's important to make one's home a comfortable haven. Ellyn knows how to do that, and likes to share that ability. Besides all that, she also continues to serve some of the single missionaries with a meal once or twice a week. It's easy for her to make a little more than we'll eat as a family, and then deliver that to Bruce, Faith, or Joy. Oh, I can't forget to mention that she is the room mom for Dustin's class, and teaches art to the first-second and third-fourth grade classes.

I can remember way back in July of 2000, when we first arrived in Shell. I came into the house at the end of that first week to find Ellyn standing over the kitchen sink sobbing. Shopping for groceries in a foreign language, cleaning the vegetables--it was all overwhelming. But she's come a long way, and if you're new around here, or need some help, Ellyn will be right there.

It's been a while, but here's a story about an opportunity she had to fly into the jungle a while ago with MAF pilot Sandy Toomer. What an experience!