But we had a lovely welcome celebration at Home of Love on Sunday and today we met each of the classes at the primary school. The experiences were overwhelming to Grace, exciting to Ana, and normal to Noah who just went about his explorations as if nothing different were happening.
The roads around us are mostly dirt, although the main road from the capital through our city is paved. Josh is doing a great job driving a borrowed 15 passenger van on the LEFT side of the road, avoiding the many many bikes, motorcycles, and pedestrians.
We have electricity for a few hours a day – enough to charge up our computers and wish for a little more! It’s fine now, because the weather is very cool at night – down to low 70’s. (We'll get a generator before the hot season sets in!) We, unfortunately, have to keep heavy curtains pulled and the windows closed at night for security reasons so we don’t get to feel the lovely breeze while we sleep. (It is the custom in many parts of Africa to close up the house tightly when the sun sets.)
We have friendly geckos in the house but otherwise, very few critters and bugs at this time of year (end of the rainy season). We’ve been eating rice and beans and eggs and produce – I made a yummy ground nut (peanut) sauce to go on the rice and beans yesterday!
My verse this week has been: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, with prayer and petition, with THANKSGIVING, present your requests to God.” Phil 2:6
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