I live in Kigali, Rwanda this month in the village of Kabuga. I was in a fog the night we arrived. Sitting in a Mini Bis- taxi, curled up hovering over our backpacks as they sat on our laps, I thought to myself; here we go again, a new home, new people, new ministry, new stories and a new country! I was somewhere in the middle of being ecstatic at the fact that I was actually in Rwanda my sixth month and sixth country and feeling so tired that I wanted to be in the states in my bed.
Rwanda has been exhausting- so many people, so many cars and motorbikes but at the same time our home has just offered us so much rest. I live in a beautiful home this month. It’s a YELLOW house with white pillars on every corner and a huge gray brick wall surrounding it. The weather is beautiful, tropical. Our host mom Slyvie is phenomenal; she treats us as if we were her own children. At one point I was sick and she woke me up asking me if I wanted tea. She traveled all the way to the pharmacy to get me medicine. She has been extremely nurturing to us.
This is what my day looks like.
4:30 am – Wake up to loud Muslim prayer and dogs howling. YES every morning.
– Woken up by the family I live with; cooking, cleaning, showering, music….
– Talk to Jesus
– GET OUT OF BED
– Breakfast; Milk tea, Bread, Medium fat spread (duno, that’s what the label says)
– WALK up the hill, weave through crowds of humans/bikes/babies/women with things on their heads/rude men/locals yelling Mzungu; white person.
– Teach English to 100 children, some orphans, some neighbors
12:00 pm – LUNCH. Scrum-didili-usious !!!!
– Teach English to adults
– Teatime
– Maybe walk up a hill, maybe a road, maybe take a bus to PREACH! We dance. We hug people, pray for people. Sometimes people are healed, other times people are saved.
– Team feedback
8:30 – DINNER –aka- CARB overload
– Hang out
10:00 pm- SLEEP
This is not a set schedule most of the time we go on African time- slow and laid back!
Then we do it all over again!!!!!
Thank you to everyone who has partnered up with me on this mission either by payer or financial support. The Kingdom is being blessed and advanced.
Love
Daniela
