Things that make you say: TIA (This is Africa!)
36 hour bus rides to the village we are in, and 36 hour bus rides back to the capital of Tanzania, before another 20 hour bus ride to Nairobi for our 5 day break from ministry. You learn to count your blessings really quick!
Carrying live chickens home from the market on a completely overly crowded bus and killing them in an open kitchen. (slicing their neck into an aluminum bowl and watching the blood shoot all over the place)
Buses so packed you literally have to hold other peoples children, put your faces into other peoples crevaces, and sit on complete strangers laps all while traveling down the most pothole filled roads you have ever seen (if they are even paved) and others that are dirt and have eroded from the rainy season. Crazy
Everyone travels by bicycle or motorcycle, and if you do not watch out for them you will get ran over… literally it happened to Jen Langes, thank God she is okay! We can laugh about it now…
Children flock to you because your white, and because we walk with God, and you are never alone because their are children everywhere!
Everyone is happy, for the most part, and greets you in Swahili with a smile. Its so promising to see people with so little and have so much Joy! We Americans need to shift our attitudes!
I get to work out with 10-15 african children following me around teaching me Swahili and urging me to keep going, my own fans if you will. Its great for pushing on in my workouts!
Open air preaching and baptizing people in the spirit to increase the Kingdom of God.
Loving on Children at an Orphanage.
Street evangelizing and preaching the Word of God.
Going to church for 2 hours dancing around with loads of Africans chanting in Swahili. Just having the Freedom to do so is eye opening and life changing.
Eating amazing African food. Beans and rice, Ugali, hard boiled eggs, Chippani bread, vegetables prepared for most meals, and all of it is super cheap and prepared over charcoal stoves in our home.
Sleeping on mattresses with the biggest spiders lurking in all 4 corners of the room! Seriously the size of my hand. I kill them on the regular, so its no biggy, bud dam are they scary!
Tanzania is amazing and will continue to be so for another 9 days until we split to Kenya and more great things happen!
Love all my family and friends. write me more. It may take time to write back due to lack of internet. Hopefully I will post pictures soon on this blog or my other one. I will be sure to update.
