Fall Fun

As the weather gets colder, our fun is just warming up!  I can't tell you how much I love fall and how much I've missed the change of seasons while living overseas.  I feel like I have to soak it up past saturation point in order to bring it back to Brazil with me :)  Here's some things we've been doing for fun:

Flying a plane out in a field...this picture was taken a few minutes before the plane crashed beyond repair.  At least we got a good picture :)

Bundling Up

I love this boy

And this one too!

I can't get enough of these breathtaking colors!!!

On our street

We visited a place called "Unusual Junction" that featured this abandoned train you could climb up on

Elijah just happened to have the right hat with us!

This town and tractors....inseparable!

 We also have been doing a ton of hiking in the woods.  Every weekend we go out for a long bike ride or hike, usually 1-2 hours!  It's been a ton of fun and we have to do it before Elijah can walk and doesn't want to be carried anymore!

And there is an absolutely beautiful old canal that you can go for a ride on here in town...we haven't gone but it looks like fun!

In the Hangar

There are a few interesting things happening at the hangar lately.  

The plane Jeyson has been working on since we arrived is complete and headed to Honduras right now.  

One of the projects Jeyson worked on was removing the nice carpeted floor and creating this wood floor system so the missionaries can tie down lots of cargo "truck style".   It has lots of panels so that if something needs to be fixed under the whole thing doesn't need to be removed.

This plane is also just about finished.  This is a homebuilt plane that a missionary who is just beginning a flight ministry in Mexico is working on.  He built most of it at home but just needed the structure of a shop (MMS) to finish up the rest.

So Ethan came over to MMS a few months ago and has been working on his plane at the hangar and is just putting the finishing details on it.  Now it's time for him to fly 40 hours in it locally before they take off for Mexico.

This big plane is a King Air and is owned by the equivalent of Billy Graham to the Chinese people in the United States.

He and his ministry team have a HUGE and very effective evangelism ministry that requires them to constantly travel all over the country.  The leader himself has a pilot's license and flies the team and MMS does all the maintenance for his planes.  It just headed out the door again the other day and is headed for more ministry.  Here's the interior...a fun project for everyone.