January 29, 2010

We are finished our first week of class! This week was really incredible. Today we just spent the entire morning first writing down the passions God has given us, and then our teacher for the week prayed over each of us individually and we all just prayed over each other and spoke to each other about how God wants to use us. It was a really awesome time of people just dreaming of what’s after these five months and what they can do with the rest of their lives. It really helped me to see once again the passion God has given me for children that have been quieted and shut out- those who need someone to open them up to talk and play and simply live. I still have no idea how to do that but the spark has been started again haha.

Yesterday a bunch of us spent the afternoon in town- we got some snacks, greasy KFC, and mango J It was fun to actually get off base and spend time out in the community. We have the afternoon off again so we are all catching up on emails, sleep, and journaling. And highlight of today- the work with the bricks is done!! Yay! No more hauling bricks- we hope at least! Haha

January 30, 2010

New phrase of my life: TIA- this is Africa….Today we had planned to help run a VBS at a local Church nearby. So- We are sitting around ready to go and we find out that we are leaving a half hour later than we thought. So we make a sweet video of ourselves to kill time. Then a half hour later we find out we aren’t going at all…But there is a possibility of us going on a prayer walk in the communities nearby. So we sit and wait to hear about that. Soon we are sitting in a truck going to the Church for the prayer walk J-TIA- But it was really good. The group that I was with ended up meeting a soccer team that was in the middle of practice and first we prayed for them, and then they prayed for us. Lennon- from our DTS team- was in our group and he is from the community we were in so it was really interesting to hear him talking about the people and the problems that they face.

February 1, 2010

Well the rain has left and it has become stinkin hot- TIA. Yesterday we went to Church and some of us had an interesting experience....so we this little girl sits next to us and starts playing with me- fun, right? Well soon this little girl with the sweet little smile is pulling at our hair, taking our water bottles and cameras and then trying to bite us when we take our things back, putting her hand around our throat and squeezing, and so many other wonderful friends….haha great J Then last night we had community night- the theme of the night was dreams. We shared with each other what our one dream would be if we money was no option. Then we each made bracelets and gave them to someone else to symbolize the fact that we are going to hold on to our dreams and that relationships and community are a key part of our dream. This morning during all base worship we continued on with the theme of dreams. We drew pictures of our dreams and hung them all up. On another note, a picture of what we do for fun in Africa- we spent about half an hour looking at this huge spider in its web and feeding it moths- yeah things are different here J

Today we started our second week of classes- the theme for the week is “Father Heart of God.” The rumor is that it’s a tough week- a lot of realizing our misconceptions of God and changing our views. Then we had our first real community outreach today! We went into the feeding center that this woman Elizabeth runs. While waiting for the kids to come back from school some of us went over to the day care next door- only to be bombarded by a ton of children all wanting to hug us and to be held J Then we helped/hung out with the kids at the feeding program. A highlight of the afternoon- I am now an African women complete with braids covering my head J haha