Canning Fun

This past week I have been having fun learning how to can meat. Growing up I helped my mom can fruit and vegetables, but never meat. Thankfully we found a large pressure cooker in one of our storage rooms here at the mission and it has been working great.
Then a missionary friend had some extra jars and was willing to let me borrow them.
It has really been amazing to see God work in providing the things that we need.
You may ask, why am I canning all this meat??
This summer we have a group of 31 dutch people coming for 2 1/2 weeks. We will be staying in Atrel for that time. Since we are not living there yet, we will all be sleeping in the school and we will not have any electricity or refrigeration. This has caused me to get creative and figure out how we can have some meat with our meals. We will be purchasing some meat fresh from the market but they only have market 2 times a week (Friday and Saturday) and with the heat up there it would not take long for meat to spoil.
These are going to be stretching days for our family. Our whole family will be traveling with the group and staying in the school along with them. We are praying that during this time we will be able to get to know more of the people in the community and learn more about the needs that are there, so we can better prepare for moving there.
Our goal is to move to Atrel by the summer of 2010. We are still praying that God provides the funds in His timing. We currently have about 20% of the needed funds.

Some ground beef and chicken that I have canned.