Happy New Year! It has been eventful thus far in Rwanda with church this morning and a full afternoon. Yesterday was actually our off-day so we hung out around the house for the morning. After breakfast, Pastor Moses informed us we were having our Rwandan naming ceremony. I am now Muhoza, which means encourager in Kay Rwanda. It was entertaining as they sang and danced for us before praying for us. We then had to dance for them, which might have been the funniest part.
We then settled back in to hang out before they came in to ask if any of us wanted to chop the head off the chicken we were having for dinner. None of us volunteered, but I did get some sweet video of Moses cutting its neck and then Paul and Jack beginning the plucking process.
Our afternoon we spent in town. I guess the Kigali bus companies missed that it was New Years Eve and it took us 3 hours of standing in the rain to catch a bus home last evening. We got home at 9pm and made some no bake chocolate oatmeal cookies and watched movies to ring in the new year.
This week is mostly preaching in the evening and I am now coaching basketball everyday at 4pm. I'll blog more about the cool doors God has opened in basketball over the next few days. I hope you are enjoying 2012 thus far. Thank you for tagging along for the journey in 2011 and I look forward to more cool stories in the months ahead.
