michael and i with the masks we bought at the market... bargaining was so much fun! (and i really didn't think i would like it!)
the girls last night... pajama party
a flower outside of linda's house
after we got off the airplane from south africa... welcome to zambia!!!
salvio showing off his painting today :)
one of the kids paintings... i absolutely adore all of them!
salvio... again. (i might be a little biased)
team africa outside of the rafiki village! this was right before our amazing walk a few days ago :)i can't believe our first week is over... it's gone by so fast! it's been REALLY great.. and i sort of don't want to go home (at least not yet). (although i do miss all of you :P)
today was a lot of fun! especially since i spent the entirety of yesterday in bed... really - i slept like 18 hours. but, i'm feeling so much better today... jesus is taking care of me :) todd thinks i probably just caught something from being in the market the day before. but, anyway! i feel better and it really helped me to appreciate today since i wasn't in bed for all of it. so woke up this morning around 6.30, still felt a little sick - but just being out and about really helped... but we did bible study - today is was about psalm 66. david always does a really good job of explaining things. today one of his examples was if an ant were to say to us that he was going to tear down our building all by himself... we would laugh at him. (and i'm sure everyone sees the parallel to christianity). anyway, i just really liked that part.
on a personal note (i feel like everyone has been posting something personal) i have kind of a weird analogy, also, this is the kind of thing that goes on in my head... most of the time. so, let's just say our hearts are nets (like fishermans big nets) and i feel like when i first got here satan was only letting bad fish in my net and i just couldn't shake them out... and jesus would put a few more good fish in my net, but the bad fish were just too overwhelming. and then just as the week has gone on jesus has overflowed my net with good (really good) fish! and has completely reliquinshed the bad fish. (i most always have a lot of imagery in my head, and this is how i make sense of some things)
but moving on to whats happened today... after bible study.
sara and i did painting with the kids... it was so neat! just being about to see the lord's creativity through these kids was really incredible! i put up a few pictures at the top of this, but they are from today. we took pictures of all of the paintings the kids painted... and are even taking some back home with us :) the kids here are so sweet... it's unbelievable!
after painting we just came back to the house and then we helped mike spackle the ceiling in the dining room (we'll paint it tomorrow).
susan and linda finished up the cooking for when the home office comes and michael helped mike work on the playground some more. i think it's a bigger task than they had orignally planned. but, they are doing a really great job with everything! and michael is realizing he actually is pretty handy :)
and todd had the most exciting day out of all of us! he got to go into chongwe (the nearby village) to examine some kids with nancy. except i won't explain it because that is going to have to be his job :) but it was sooo neat hearing about his day tonight!
we're just been sitting around the house tonight, we made popcorn and i think we're going to catch up on crossroads sermons online after i finish this... and then we'll probably sing. we always find something to entertain ourselves with at night.
i hope you liked the pictures! i only put up a few random ones, but i hope they make you smile :)
as always, thank you so much for praying for us... and i love you!
m.
today was a lot of fun! especially since i spent the entirety of yesterday in bed... really - i slept like 18 hours. but, i'm feeling so much better today... jesus is taking care of me :) todd thinks i probably just caught something from being in the market the day before. but, anyway! i feel better and it really helped me to appreciate today since i wasn't in bed for all of it. so woke up this morning around 6.30, still felt a little sick - but just being out and about really helped... but we did bible study - today is was about psalm 66. david always does a really good job of explaining things. today one of his examples was if an ant were to say to us that he was going to tear down our building all by himself... we would laugh at him. (and i'm sure everyone sees the parallel to christianity). anyway, i just really liked that part.
on a personal note (i feel like everyone has been posting something personal) i have kind of a weird analogy, also, this is the kind of thing that goes on in my head... most of the time. so, let's just say our hearts are nets (like fishermans big nets) and i feel like when i first got here satan was only letting bad fish in my net and i just couldn't shake them out... and jesus would put a few more good fish in my net, but the bad fish were just too overwhelming. and then just as the week has gone on jesus has overflowed my net with good (really good) fish! and has completely reliquinshed the bad fish. (i most always have a lot of imagery in my head, and this is how i make sense of some things)
but moving on to whats happened today... after bible study.
sara and i did painting with the kids... it was so neat! just being about to see the lord's creativity through these kids was really incredible! i put up a few pictures at the top of this, but they are from today. we took pictures of all of the paintings the kids painted... and are even taking some back home with us :) the kids here are so sweet... it's unbelievable!
after painting we just came back to the house and then we helped mike spackle the ceiling in the dining room (we'll paint it tomorrow).
susan and linda finished up the cooking for when the home office comes and michael helped mike work on the playground some more. i think it's a bigger task than they had orignally planned. but, they are doing a really great job with everything! and michael is realizing he actually is pretty handy :)
and todd had the most exciting day out of all of us! he got to go into chongwe (the nearby village) to examine some kids with nancy. except i won't explain it because that is going to have to be his job :) but it was sooo neat hearing about his day tonight!
we're just been sitting around the house tonight, we made popcorn and i think we're going to catch up on crossroads sermons online after i finish this... and then we'll probably sing. we always find something to entertain ourselves with at night.
i hope you liked the pictures! i only put up a few random ones, but i hope they make you smile :)
as always, thank you so much for praying for us... and i love you!
m.
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