Tuesday at Walk in the Light

I forgot to tell more details from this weekend which I thought i should include! Saturday night before the talent show our chalet had a final chalet dinner. It was led by the two senior nurses in our chalet-"power mom" and "mom". They have been our older sisters and RA's throughout the entire trip and two people that Kat and I have become closest with. They prepared us bread, and spaghetti which are two foods that we have all been yearning for, we just are a tad sick of lamb! They finished the evening by giving us "kitten" awards. I received the "kitten that makes us always laugh" award. This is code for that I am too loud when they are trying to sleep. :)

Today we had a good day at Walk in the Light. It has continued to be exhausting though. It's been high eighties this week and I suffered a sunburn on my strap lines. Don't worry, I applied sun screen, I just missed the spot RIGHT on my tank top strap (this is before my nurse Auntie Nancy sends me an email lecturing me on skin caner....). I have found that doing some many days of labor is exhausting! We finished the trench after we had to go back and dig it again on Monday. Now we are working on the care center that is going to be finished by the time we are out of the work site by Friday I think! This is record time for ANYTHING in Africa. We had to clear out all of the trash that was taken from the care center to out front, and now is on the side of the building. We have been gardening and getting the ground ready to be gardened! That includes, shoveling cement and picking through to pull out tons of rocks. Racking, more hoeing, shoveling, wheelbarrowing and then repeating the process. It's tiring. This afternoon though I was thrilled when the time with the Go-go's came together. Last night I created a large 4x4 puzzle that had sixteen pieces and was the size of a chalkboard. We had the women draw pictures of their prayers, dreams or anything that was on their mind. There was a reoccurring theme of women drawing schools, homes, kids, and trees (something that Africa lacks in a township).  We connected all of the activity by talking about Jeremiah 29:11 and Romans where it talks about the body of Christ. Essentially, that each puzzle piece is not perfect and has to be put together in order to complete the puzzle. It was a fun activity to design and even more fun when it goes well with the women. Thank you Kurt and Peter for helping me learn how to teach  bible studies this summer. Pictures soon to come, they wouldn't all upload!