Five weeks ago we got here at Harbu Chulule, Ethiopia. We are working with an organization called Hope Ethiopia. We live in a compound on site and it is an orphanage. There are 28 kids that live here ranging in age from 3 to 16. We are also all squad here for the first time since month one, so I haven’t seen some of my squad mates in two months. So there has been a lot of change all here within the last two weeks.
Since we have been here I have had the opportunity to work at a vets office a couple times, which had been really awesome. It’s crazy seeing the way that things work here, like the way that they tie up their livestock by putting a rope between a front leg and a back leg. In the mornings I have team ministry at a reforestation site which has been really fun. But this week I walk the little kids to school, so by the time I get back the guys have already had to leave so I help out some of the other teams with their stuff. Then in the afternoons our ministry is to be here and pour into the kids. Being here has been so great so far and the kids are awesome.
On the mornings that I got back from walking the kids I would hop in and help some of the other teams with their ministries, which consisted a lot of cutting grass and trees and digging. I helped dig a ditch for a garden wall. Then the next couple days I helped do road repair. That was a lot of carrying bricks across the property, busting them, and filling in holes. We also had to move dirt around to level it out.
On Friday I was helping to clean up around a fish pond with another team of all girls. While cutting grass we saw something move under the tarp and thought it was like a squirrel or something.
Found out it most definitely not what we thought. I ran it out from under the tarp and it was a honey badger. It was massive and it freaked us out a little cause we weren’t expecting that. After that one ran out we looked and found another one and some of the Ethiopians that were around killed it because it was eating the chickens and fish. Things here are crazy though, and I love it so much here.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
We celebrated Christmas as a whole squad, twice so it was pretty awesome. The Ethiopian Christmas is in January so that was a lot of fun.
I am $1200 away from being fully funded so if you could help me out that would be great.
Love you all, and God Bless.
