Going to Church

 

Since I arrived in Bulima I have been attending the local church about 5 minutes from home. The problem I have is that the service is entirely in Swahili, and I only understand here and there a word, this means that my mind starts to drift and I don't focus. For myself this month I will be focusing and praying about the "will of God" I am thinking of not going to church or to search for an English service. This Sunday I am actually thinking of going to another service, "which sometimes is in English" I was told by my two German friends who I climb the little "Koppie" with on a Sunday evening to look at the sunset.

I also go up the "Koppie" on a Saturday as part of my walk, last week we decided to go around the "Koppie" thinking that it will take us away from the town a bit, well to say the least we walked straight into a local high school which took us back into town. We then just decided to walk to the lake to make up some distance, the "Koppie is about a 200 meters high and very steep which make up for a lack of distance. This past week I was out at night standing at a Duca (house shop) and I had all these small kids touching me and running away laughing. Early that morning I actually had a little boy who ran away screaming when he saw me "maybe it was the hat I am wearing".

The work in the library is progressing nice as I input books onto the system, the goal is to input 1000 books a week. I am still working on getting the librarians to work on the system on their own, they seem to be lacking confidence, but I still have time to fine tune their mindset. We have now moved all the books to where I want it to be so from here on forward it is just a question of getting a few things which a library need and training the students. Yesterday I went to Mwanza to try and sort out the work permit issue, and hopefully I do not have to go in again to do more paperwork as the trip is long and arduous with lots of people on the side of the road etc which makes for a dangerous journey.

Work wise things are going well and everything is in place as I would like it to be, I still come to the library 7 days a week to work (half days on Sundays and shorter hours on Saturdays). I might take next weekend off just to give body a break from working so hard. The idea is to go to visit another missionary in the Mwanza area, this will mean that this coming week and next week I will work doubly hard as I do not want to fall behind schedule. I think 1 of the reasons I am feeling so tired is because I was not taking in enough fluids, well that has now changed and I make sure I have a water-bottle with me all the time. Yesterday in Mwanza I had about 4 sodas which I drank like water, the guys who was with me just could not understand how I could drink the sodas like that!!! whereas they struggled to finish theirs.

PRAYER REQUEST

1.It is my goal to serve God in Africa, please pray that God will open doors for me in Africa when my time here comes to an end to serve him elsewhere where their is a need.

2. For the well being of my family back home that everything will go well with them