I can’t believe that my time in Rwanda is almost over 🙁 I absoulutely love Rwanda and can see myself coming back here. I have some great friends here that I am going to miss very much. I would like to tell you about some of the things that I have done while being here and then share with you what God has been doing in my life this month. During our last week here Pastor took us to a lake near the DRC boarder. We tried to cross over into the DRC but they wanted way to much money so we were not able to but, my feet actually touched DRC soil!!! After trying to go into DRC we went to the lake. Oh my goodness!! This was so much fun I get excited just typing about it!! Before going swimming we got into a boat that took us across the lake to an island that had hot spring on it. This was so cool because I have never seen this before. Let me tell you the water was literally boiling it was so hot! Now normally I would not even swim in water that I could not see through but I don’t know what happened because I was swimming like a little fish in a lake that I had no idea what was under the water. I have to say that I was proud of myself for doing this haha. We had one of our friends Bosco with us who did not know how to swim so we got the opportunity to teach him how to swim and he now knows how to swim. We were driving in a minivan smaller than the ones we have in America so on the way home me and Tommy took the bus home with Bosco. This was so much fun to me because I am a relational person and I got to sit next to Bosco the whole way back and we talked for pretty much he whole time of 3 hours. This is a day that I will never forget. One of my favorite times of day is hanging out with my boys after evening service at church. They all come over to the house we are staying at and pile in the guest room of the guest house and we just hangout and talk. We have taught them to do high and lows of each day so we normally go around and do that. One night I was talking with Methode and he told me that my face looked like gravy. I was thinking excuse me!! I asked him what that meant and he told me that it meant that I looked cute. Who knew!! This month we have been preaching like crazy!! Some days I even have to preach twice. If you know me at all you would know that preaching is not my cup of tea. This month has definetly pushed me out of my comfort zone and I have seen God use this to build my confidence. Looking at myself today I see a completely different person than at day one of the race. It has came to the point that I actually like preaching HaHa! God has been teaching me a lot about patience not so much with others but with God. You see I want God to change me today right now but He is starting to teach me that I have to wait for His timing. God has also been teaching me not to leave my heart here in Africa. I am going to have to make a choice in a couple of days to bring my heart with me to Asia and then to Europe and not let my body just go. I know that I am going to miss Africa inparticular Rwanda so very much. It has really taken my heart in just 3 and a half weeks. It is going to be a very hard to not only transition to a whole new contenent but also having to transition into a whole new team. Yep this is the last week that I will be with Embers of Hope (EOH) it is sad but exciting at the same time. I am sad to loose these people as my team but I am also excited to get to know other people on the squad on a deeper level. So it is going to be bittersweet moment. I am so thankful for all my supporters. If it was not for you supporting me with prayer and financially I would not be learning as much as I am. I would not be growing as much in my walk with Jesus. I can’t thank you enough for your support. I am about $3000 from being fully funded for the world race so I still need your help. In order for me to stay for the full 11 months and get the chance to see what all God has planned for me on this race I need to raise $3000 by January to continue on the race. Again I thank you so much for your support it means so much to me!! Love Jaime
