It's been almost two weeks since I last posted, I apologize for anyone that was absolutely dying to read my updates. I'd say it won't happen again but realistically it will happen a lot more frequently in the next few months (keep reading and you'll find out why). I've been in an uninspired mood lately and have had no desire to write anything relevant. Today is different though.
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So, my last post mentioned that I was still in need of almost $1,000 to finish paying for my outreach fees. God totally provided and everything is covered and paid for! I'm still praying about money for bills while I'm away but thats another topic haha.
This may have been the greatest testimony of money coming out of nowhere to pay for this trip. In August of 2008 I sold a car to a family I know with the agreement that they'd pay it off as they had the money. They ended up unemployed 2 weeks later. We talked it over and agreed that they'd continue paying as soon as they could. They repaid the last $555 last week, the timing could not have been more perfect!
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Lunch on the weekends is the African equivalent to Top Ramen around here. Sometimes I eat it, sometimes I find new foods to try. This has become one of my favorites. It's called a Gatsby, and it's the biggest sandwich I've ever seen. It's enough to feed 3 starving men though it usually fills 4 people up just fine. At the price of R75 ($12), the price is just right when split between a couple people. They're usually filled with chips (french fries), lettuce, sauce of your choosing, and a main item. This one was chips and calamari and it took Ben and I two meals to finish it.
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Our speaker this week was a guy from Afghanistan. God called him there 9 years ago, when he was 18. It was a privilege to hear his stories of faith and inspiration directly from the mission field. We shared our classroom with another DTS (Discipleship Training School) from Worcester, South Africa and despite being a bit more crowded than usual, it was fantastic. I also met a girl from Placerville (about 45 minutes from my California home) who was one of the Worcester students! It's amazing how small the world gets when you step away from what you know.
Our team bought our airline tickets early this past week, so assuming our visa's come in on time (they will!) this next week is my last week in Africa for a few months. We had a slight change of plans for our stop on Ranike. We're joining up with a prayer team from the Norway that is already established in that area. They lead prayer hikes throughout a bunch of tiny Himalayan villages, so we're probably going to end up going on an 8 day journey in the foothills of some of the tallest mountains in the world. It's going to be an amazing stop on our trip!
Because of the amount of traveling we'll be doing and the areas we're planning on visiting, I won't be bringing my laptop with me. Except for our time hiking, we're expecting to be relatively close to internet cafe's the majority of the time. One of my teammates is bringing a computer along and we'll all have cameras so there will be plenty of pictures posted sometime in June! Updates from now on will be less frequent but I plan on being to post occasionally, we'll see how it works out...
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