I figure since I have the chance to update my blog right now, I will. (If you didn’t read my last post, you might want to skim over it so that you know what the heck I’m talking about in this one.)
Things have definitely changed in the past few days, for myself at least, and I’m going to say that it is completely a God thing because I couldn’t have done it on my own. So, you know how I was saying we were really frustrated and tired and angry a lot? Well on Tuesday of last week, that was true, BUT on Wednesday, for whatever reason, that completely changed. It was like a switch went off in me and all of the sudden I was totally chill about the whole thing. My attitude did a complete 180 degree turn. Now instead of being irritated by the smallest thing that the guy we are working for does, God is showing me all the good things that he is doing and working on. I’m so thankful though because it makes the day go a lot quicker when you’re not just bitter the whole time. For example, I was helping out at their house on Friday, and usually when 5:00 roles around, in my head I’m thinking, “Okay, my times up, I’m outta here.” But this time, 5:00 came and went and I was still looking for things to do and ways to help and I didn’t even notice it was 6:00 by the time I got out of there. So yes, I am thankful for the attitude switch to say the least.
Also, another answer to prayers is that the guy we’re working for has been a lot better at just asking us about ideas he has instead of saying that we have to do them whether we like it or not, and also, he has been doing better at giving us time off as well, we had both Saturday, and Sunday off this weekend. It was a great rest. Actually this weekend was even better, because not only was I able to just chill and do nothing for the day, I also got a package from my parents and on from my sister in the mail. Not that that is very important to you, but it made my day so I figured I’d share. J
So a little heads up, if I die from a tarantula bite, blame the people on my team. They found it while we were working in the fields, and now it’s in a little jar in our house. Although to be completely honest, I don’t mind at all, I think it’s actually kind of cool. It has these two HUGE fangs. I had no idea tarantulas had fangs like that! We have a tiny itty bitty little scorpion in a jar as well.
Now what else has been going on this week…? Hmm. Okay, here’s something for you guys. (Dog lovers, I would advise you skip this paragraph) So the other morning, like every morning, we went over to the missionary couple’s house for prayer. When we got in front of their house I saw this cute black dog. So I thought, “Aww, they got another dog, how nice.” So I get inside and I was talking to Melissa, and she says, “Ya, that dog outside, isn’t going to be their pet, it’s going to be their dinner!” So here I was thinking that this was just a joke and that they were trying to pull our legs, that was until we came home for lunch and there was meat on top of the fire, and the dog was nowhere to be found. So they sent us home with some ground dog meat for dinner, which I refused to eat. The story goes, that if you eat dogs meat, it does something inside of you that will keep you warm for days or weeks, or apparently even years. I don’t know if it’s true, but I was not about to find out.
(Okay, dog lovers, you can start reading again) So things in the school have been going really well, the kids are picking up the letters, and the sounds that they make, as well as colours, weather, emotions and a bunch of other stuff. They are always super excited to read the Bible stories every day which is fun to see. The only thing that is difficult, is that since we’ve been here, they’ve had sports day, children’s day, new years, teacher’s day, and random other days off, which leaves us with a lot less teaching time than we were expecting, which means we have to try to rush through things more, which means the kids aren’t learning the things we’re teaching them as well as we would like them to learn them.
This week we were also told that we will be splitting up into 4 groups of three, each group spending two days and one night in a home of one of the Christian families in the community. That means that we will be getting up early with them, eating with them, working with them all day, and sleeping in their houses. I’m partly nervous, and partly excited.
So, prayer requests for this week:
1. Most of our team still isn’t sleeping through the night, so pray for good, solid sleep.
2. Although God has changed my attitude, a lot of the team is still in, “GET ME OUT OF HERE!” Mode, so prayer that we can finish of the outreach strong, not just “make it through.”
3. That when we stay at the people houses, none of us will get sick from the food or water, and that we will have the energy to get through both days because I have a feeling they are going to be long working days.
So that’s about all I have to say for this little update, we finish outreach on the 26th or the 27th and then its back to the base for debrief, graduation is on the 3rd, and then I’ll be home a week and a half after that. Things are coming to an end quickly!
Today’s Fun Fact:
When you cook the bananas here, they turn pink-ish purple
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