Smorgus-Board Sunday

Day 13

Today we arrived to church on time! The church service was much easier to understand today, I think it’s a mix of us getting use to the accent and the speaker today was a much slower speaker. The singing and sermon were great. After church we headed back the Hamby house to make our lunch. Lunch and dinner today were a combination (smorgus-board) of leftovers because Lenard (our cook) is not available.

After lunch a group of us headed over to the Havens to work on their capstone projects. I decided to go along and help since I need the hours, and I enjoy working with the babies. After working on the projects for a while we headed over to Haven 3 just for fun to say hey to all the kids there. Even though they are the sick ones, they are so much fun.

When we finished up with Haven 3 we meet some boys outside of Eric’s house (which is a home for the older orphaned children) They had a soccer ball and so we walked with them back to the soccer field and played soccer for the rest of the afternoon. I also got attacked by 6ish little boys after Bryan jumped on my back and yelled, “Get him” Lucky for me the boys are the perfect size to pick up and twirl around, and they loved the extra attention.

After soccer I cleaned up and then helped make dinner. We again had leftovers, so really I did nothing, but I was there in the kitchen if needed. After dinner we went back to the church and enjoyed more singing and a lesson.

Once church was finished we headed back to our house. Tessa and I decided to build a card house which surprisingly turned out to be successful. I never thought we would finish. There were many pictures taken during the process of building and also during the process of tearing it down. Tearing it down went much faster.

Tonight four planets align in a row, so the group is waking up at 4:30 a.m. to see it happen. Hopefully we can see it and then get some rest before our busy Monday.

Thank you for all of your prayers! Our group has remained in high spirits and in good health. Please continue to pray for us as we continue to serve the people here.

Thank you.

Ben