Some of the highlights from my MARVELOUS, MAGNIFICENT month in MALAWI:

Preaching inside a prision and God providing us with a translator (that was the first and only day we needed one…and we just happened to meet our now friends Rejoice and Stallone…coincidence, I think not!)



Riding in the bed of a truck while it's pouring rain and happily waving to the Malwian people



Squeezing in one of the vendor huts with local school children, random passerbys, and the carvers to have the very first Vendor Church Sunday service



Waiting in line at shoprite to get my loaf of bread. First you have to fight to get it, then shop for 40 minutes until it cools down enough to slice it



Going on a Bible hunt with half of nkhata bay (I'm telling you, people we never even met were coming up to us saying they could get us Bibles)



Watching the youth club lead the song oh lay lay and adding their own moves



Seeing my first rubber tree and full size rubberband football (we would call this a soccerball)



Cliff jumping…enough said



Having a nightly Bible study with the night guards and several other people that joined along the way

Eating what I thought was corn on the cob only to discover the kernels were barely cooked and therefore crunchy like peanuts


Listening to toddlers reciete a bible verse from memory…including the book, chapter, and verse number all in English



Offered a free plot of land in a remote mountain top village



Announcing to the youth club that it is swim time and watching the boys rip off all their clothes and dance on the beach naked

Witnessing God provide 257 Bibles for the people of Nkhata Bay



Making an obstacle course for the youth group. They had to finish the course in twos just like the animals from noahs ark



Sitting outside the prison talking and watching the football game with our prisioner friends (<3 michael and gift)



Swimming across a beautiful crystal clear lake in my freetime



Watching and being a part of 50 people accepting Christ into their hearts



Sitting on the side of the road playing the oh so popular game bao with some of my closest friends (James, Alex, and Black Chocolate)



Peeing outside my tent and getting caught by one of the night guards…and consequently peeing on myself



Tickling the feet of little African babies (fun fact: African babies aren't tickilish on their feet because they have so many caluses built up from walking around barefoot).



Doing my laundry in the lake…the waves hitting the beach acted as my rinse cycle

Praying for radical things to happen in and to Nkhata Bay and watching as every prayer got answered



Climbing up the ropes course and running up the slide with some of my disabled friends (wame miss you already)

Learning to call french fries, crisps



Experiencing the agility necessary and the assortment of smells that come from a compost toilet (word to the wise: never forget to shut the lid)

Socializing every night with our new friends from the lodge around the family style dinner table…it really felt like we were home this month



Partaking in a daily bible study out on the dock at sunset



Watching my new friends, Carvers FC, win their football game against the cocky…and obviously irrationnally so…Police Social



Tenting for the month and having ants infiltrate literally every crevace of my bag and our food (one day we had a lovely bowl of ant soup)



Learning that when Malawians walk away from you and say the expression I'm coming, it means that they will be back



Using milk powder aka white water in my cereal



Watching the boys in youth club cry during our entire lesson because it was our last day



Enjoying a night of live music with the waves from the lake crashing in the background



Eating a bag of casava chips (they taste like French fries) out of a plastic bag from a street vendor