Ok, here is the house I am living in. The first picture is of the outside of the house and my room is in the back on the white side of the house. If you are wondering what the large cement structure is, that is the long drop, where the guards go to the bathroom. This is my bedroom, I didn't get a picture of it but there's another bed in the room for a guest! The next picture is my bathroom, very spacious as you can see! The orange bucket is incase we run out of water. And the last picture is the classroom. This is a great room with a desk for each student and a big book case that is full of our books. I will be posting the next portion of the house soon!
Verse this week is from Isaiah 41: 10 "fear not, for I am with you; do not be dismayed for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." This is the verse that the kids and I are memorizing this week for school. I thought it was a good one because of the events that unfolded last week.
Now it has been 2 weeks in Nampula and things are good. Steve left for the states on Tuesday so we are here without a man of the house. Honestly it is a little harder without him here. I am a little more jumpy at night. I guess I can't blame this on him completely though.
The first night Steve was gone, Sarah offered to let me sleep in one of the girls beds so that I could be on the same side of the house as them since my room is through the kitchen and the school room as well as a bathroom. I thought that I would be fine in my own room so at about 11:00 I headed that way. As I was about to go through the kitchen I decided to turn on the light so that I could just see what was ahead of me, see if there were any obstacles and then I was going to turn the light off. Well, right when I turned on the light I heard a noise above me, as I looked up a rat appeared and fell from the shelf. I tried not to scream as I jumped back because Amami and the rest of the family were sleeping not to far away. Unfortunately I woke Sarah, there was nothing we could do. The rat has shaken off his fall and run behind the fridge. That night I did not sleep well. I kept hearing sounds and waking up. So now I am sleeping in the girls room!
That was Tuesday night and since then we have been keeping ourselves busy with all sorts of activities during the day besides school. Oh, on Tuesday we also went to library at SIL which is the school for the missionary kids in the area. They have open library every Tuesday which is really nice. We got to meet some of the other mothers and were invited to a ladies lunch on Thursday.
On Wednesday though, our activity was to have guest over from Maputo. Some friends of the Sniders' were up doing some work and came over to have dinner. I can't tell you how nice it was to see familiar faces even if I had only seen them once or twice before. One of the men who came over, his name is Barbosa (sorry if I spelled it wrong), has been amazing for me. We had gone over to his house while we were still in Maputo a couple of times to have dinner with his wife and son. I don't know if I wrote about it but I have told many of you, he is the one who made us poa de quaju. They are little rolls that are mostly cheese. Everyone should have them at some time in their life. Anyway, he and I started talking and he was really encouraging and kind. I have been kind of over whelmed, I guess you could say because NOTHING is the same here as it is at home so my brain feels like mush. So the reason I am telling you this is he gave me lots of hugs (not nearly as good as your's, Dad but as good as it gets right now) and told me to call whenever I need to! What a guy!
Thursday: that is the day we went to the ladies lunch. That was good but overwhelming as well. Trying to remember all those names and faces to go with and who's kids are whose and who their husbands are. Even though it was over whelming it was nice to be with adults and to talk about what they are doing here and have time to pray. I am excited to get to know these women better! When we got home, the kids and I were walking down to a new friends home to see the puppies that are at there house. The puppies are 2 weeks old and are just starting to open their eyes. They are so cute, Lucy and Mia loved petting them. They are looking forward to going down to see them often. On our way to see the puppies we ran into two girls that were coming to meet us. There are 3 girls who live in an apartment who either teach at the school or are doing some language development here and they are my age. I am so excited to get to know them!
For dinner last night, we had home made tortillas. They are so good!
Friday morning started with coffee! It was our first real cup of coffee for about a month. Believe it or not but I thought it was good. It was a treat to have something familiar. During our wonderful cup of Starbucks coffee, Jamie the guy who works in the house, pulled down the mouse traps. He had caught 2 mice last night. I new he had caught at least one because I heard it scraping around in the night, but 2! Gross! he showed them to us and I was totally discussed!
The morning went on as normal. We had school and Kaleb and I went on our run. At 4:00 we all piled into the car and went out to Claire's house to got horse back riding. That was so fun. We just did a small ride because of the small kids and making sure that they love it before we go big. After riding I went over to some new friends house for dinner and a sleep over. They are some great girls. Angie and Allison are both from the states and have been here just over a year. Angie is a teacher at the school for the missionary kids and Allison works for the same orginization but does linguistics. She has the rare talent for learning languages easily. I had so much fun with them. We had dinner and talked and then watched a movie.
This morning they found out that thier gaurd was really sick and decided to take him some medication and money for food. Here, when you have a gaurd that is trust worth you keep him well. Also I should tell you that the guards are not for safety but for petty thefs. Any way to get to this guy we had to pick up his brother because he had a cell phone and could get us to the gaurds house then we drove a good 15 minutes through, what people call here, the stick villages verses the cement villages. When we got to the gaurds house his brother took us in and while Allison and Angie were explaning things to them the brother was translating into the tribal language so the wife could understand. Allison read a couple verses from Mark chapter one and then we prayed. That is an experince in and of it's self. Praying here, everyone prays at the same time, aloud. Just one more thing to adjust to.
After we got back Sarah picked us all up and we went to a BBQ out at Claire's house. It was a whole bunch of families and their kids. It was fun but I am ready for a night to just chill.
Thanks for all of your prayers and thoughts. I am thinking of you too and miss you all. Please keep me updated on all the happenings of home!
Verse this week is from Isaiah 41: 10 "fear not, for I am with you; do not be dismayed for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." This is the verse that the kids and I are memorizing this week for school. I thought it was a good one because of the events that unfolded last week.
Now it has been 2 weeks in Nampula and things are good. Steve left for the states on Tuesday so we are here without a man of the house. Honestly it is a little harder without him here. I am a little more jumpy at night. I guess I can't blame this on him completely though.
The first night Steve was gone, Sarah offered to let me sleep in one of the girls beds so that I could be on the same side of the house as them since my room is through the kitchen and the school room as well as a bathroom. I thought that I would be fine in my own room so at about 11:00 I headed that way. As I was about to go through the kitchen I decided to turn on the light so that I could just see what was ahead of me, see if there were any obstacles and then I was going to turn the light off. Well, right when I turned on the light I heard a noise above me, as I looked up a rat appeared and fell from the shelf. I tried not to scream as I jumped back because Amami and the rest of the family were sleeping not to far away. Unfortunately I woke Sarah, there was nothing we could do. The rat has shaken off his fall and run behind the fridge. That night I did not sleep well. I kept hearing sounds and waking up. So now I am sleeping in the girls room!
That was Tuesday night and since then we have been keeping ourselves busy with all sorts of activities during the day besides school. Oh, on Tuesday we also went to library at SIL which is the school for the missionary kids in the area. They have open library every Tuesday which is really nice. We got to meet some of the other mothers and were invited to a ladies lunch on Thursday.
On Wednesday though, our activity was to have guest over from Maputo. Some friends of the Sniders' were up doing some work and came over to have dinner. I can't tell you how nice it was to see familiar faces even if I had only seen them once or twice before. One of the men who came over, his name is Barbosa (sorry if I spelled it wrong), has been amazing for me. We had gone over to his house while we were still in Maputo a couple of times to have dinner with his wife and son. I don't know if I wrote about it but I have told many of you, he is the one who made us poa de quaju. They are little rolls that are mostly cheese. Everyone should have them at some time in their life. Anyway, he and I started talking and he was really encouraging and kind. I have been kind of over whelmed, I guess you could say because NOTHING is the same here as it is at home so my brain feels like mush. So the reason I am telling you this is he gave me lots of hugs (not nearly as good as your's, Dad but as good as it gets right now) and told me to call whenever I need to! What a guy!
Thursday: that is the day we went to the ladies lunch. That was good but overwhelming as well. Trying to remember all those names and faces to go with and who's kids are whose and who their husbands are. Even though it was over whelming it was nice to be with adults and to talk about what they are doing here and have time to pray. I am excited to get to know these women better! When we got home, the kids and I were walking down to a new friends home to see the puppies that are at there house. The puppies are 2 weeks old and are just starting to open their eyes. They are so cute, Lucy and Mia loved petting them. They are looking forward to going down to see them often. On our way to see the puppies we ran into two girls that were coming to meet us. There are 3 girls who live in an apartment who either teach at the school or are doing some language development here and they are my age. I am so excited to get to know them!
For dinner last night, we had home made tortillas. They are so good!
Friday morning started with coffee! It was our first real cup of coffee for about a month. Believe it or not but I thought it was good. It was a treat to have something familiar. During our wonderful cup of Starbucks coffee, Jamie the guy who works in the house, pulled down the mouse traps. He had caught 2 mice last night. I new he had caught at least one because I heard it scraping around in the night, but 2! Gross! he showed them to us and I was totally discussed!
The morning went on as normal. We had school and Kaleb and I went on our run. At 4:00 we all piled into the car and went out to Claire's house to got horse back riding. That was so fun. We just did a small ride because of the small kids and making sure that they love it before we go big. After riding I went over to some new friends house for dinner and a sleep over. They are some great girls. Angie and Allison are both from the states and have been here just over a year. Angie is a teacher at the school for the missionary kids and Allison works for the same orginization but does linguistics. She has the rare talent for learning languages easily. I had so much fun with them. We had dinner and talked and then watched a movie.
This morning they found out that thier gaurd was really sick and decided to take him some medication and money for food. Here, when you have a gaurd that is trust worth you keep him well. Also I should tell you that the guards are not for safety but for petty thefs. Any way to get to this guy we had to pick up his brother because he had a cell phone and could get us to the gaurds house then we drove a good 15 minutes through, what people call here, the stick villages verses the cement villages. When we got to the gaurds house his brother took us in and while Allison and Angie were explaning things to them the brother was translating into the tribal language so the wife could understand. Allison read a couple verses from Mark chapter one and then we prayed. That is an experince in and of it's self. Praying here, everyone prays at the same time, aloud. Just one more thing to adjust to.
After we got back Sarah picked us all up and we went to a BBQ out at Claire's house. It was a whole bunch of families and their kids. It was fun but I am ready for a night to just chill.
Thanks for all of your prayers and thoughts. I am thinking of you too and miss you all. Please keep me updated on all the happenings of home!
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