First Sunday

Sunday morning we arrived an hour late to church. There was a miscommunication and we thought church started an hour later. Still the worship service was very enjoyable. The singing was great and we were able to sing alone to the ones in English and hum to the ones in Tonga. The sermon was hard to understand because of the thick African accent, but what I heard was very good. At the end of  the sermon we were told to introduce ourselves. We each went around and said are names and what we were studying. Meanwhile a lot of the church was giggling. After we handed back the microphone, the speaker said that he was very grateful we were here and that everyone should come meets us because all the heard over the microphone was shshshshshsh. Everyone laughed. I guess they can’t understand our English accent either.

After church we were in charge of making lunch. We kept it simple by making spaghetti and garlic toast. After lunch we unloaded the storage bin and got out all the CSD tools and books. It was like Christmas. We are all excited to take this over to the havens tomorrow so we can begin therapy. After our meeting we decided to go attempt to play soccer with the students. It started off with just Americans but more and more students came and joined us, and I’m sure some were just content with watching and laughing. Soccer was one of the most fun interactive activity I have had with the students thus far on the trip. I look forward to meeting more of them and creating relationships with the students here. After soccer, many of us cleaned up and prepared for dinner. I had my first shave in Zambia….it was cold.

After dinner we headed over to church where we had another service. It was great. The singing was even better and we could understand the speaker as well. After the service the whole church came over to where we live and they had 7 young people baptized. It was really neat to see it all and experience that with me. The singing was so enjoyable and just a great experience. After the baptisms our group still needed to take communion since we missed it in the morning, so we took communion together and then went to bed exhausted.

Tomorrow we are all really excited to start working. Continue to pray for our work here.

Thank you.

Ben