4-19-08

This week has been pretty encouraging. Definitely has not gone as expected, but things are going well. We came into the city for a few things and it ended up taking much longer then we expected. We are trying to locate this huge shipment that we sent from America over two months ago and there was some mistake that made the computer say our items are in Bangladesh. But we finally got it resolved and we know where are items are, we just have to get to them now. Pray that that goes smooth.

We got back to the Shamba after a very crowed bus ride from the city to the river. We had a very pleasant 10 kilometer walk through the savannah to the school. The stars were spectacular and the crazy noises we heard were far enough away from us. One of my friends and I switched off carrying 3 gallons of petroleum on our head. That was fun.

Paul and I did some teaching in both form one and form two classes. It is so amazing how eager these kids are to learn. It is like they see something in knowledge that hardly anyone in our high school did. It is definitely a pleaser teaching them.

We were able to plaster for a day. We helped gather the sand from this huge hole, rocks from a pile that they have, and bags of cement from the class room. After mixing it all together, we through it on the wall and spread it out even. It sounds fairly easy. It is so not. There is like a swooping motion that you have to get down before the cement will stick properly. I got lots of cement on my face and I pretty much changed my blue shirt to grey, thanks to the splattering. Exciting.

Thursday afternoon Paul started feeling sick. He went to bed, but that night he wasn’t getting better. Hezekiah decided it would be important to get him to a doctor so that they can treat whatever he has before it gets worse. That’s sounds good and all, but remember, we are out at the shamba and it is night time. The teachers and Hezekia did some calling around and got a motorcycle to come pick us up and take us to the river, then one of the kids paddled us across, then Hezekia met us at the village with a big land rover. After about an hour and a half of very bumpy roads, we got to the doctor and they said it is not malaria. Thank you Jesus. But it is an infection that needs some antibiotics to help fight. So now, Paul is looking much better and feeling close to normal. God is so good. Thank you for your prayers.

So we are at the city center until Monday and it has been cool seeing how God uses us here. We have been able to show some of the staff here a few programs on the computer that will help them tremendously. We have been hanging out with some of the littler kids and they have been teaching us Swahili and we have been teaching them English. We have also gotten the chance to teach them some of our favorite worship songs.

We have a lot to do at the Shamba and we are ready to do it. It has been awesome talking to Hezekia about his dreams for this place. It will definitely take a lot of faith and time, but with God, it is so possible.

Thank you so much for your support and prayers.

We love you all and can’t wait to see you when we return.