Our Internet has Returned!

Catherine arrived back late late late Friday night and we finally have our internet back! I'm not sure where to even really start on an update, lots has happened in the past two and half weeks!

We started doing our survey work at with one of the congregations, and so far they have gone to about 100 houses, they had their third day in the community this week, so we'll see how many more survey's later today that they got done! We planned and executed our first bible study, as well as our first Children's activity. Both went well, we started out with 10 kids and by the end we had 27 (neighborhood kids came and joined) We taught them red light green light and they didn't want to stop playing! We colored and sang and had a blast with them!

We also ventured out to Ndola for the Trade Fair. We got up REALLY early to catch a bus to Kitwe and then another bus to Ndola. We got lucky because here, you get on a bus and just wait until it's full before you leave. So you could be sitting there a mighty long time but every bus we got on left pretty quickly! We got to Ndola at about 9:30 and had to find are way a bit and ended up at Muso's (Catherine's son, who went with us) aunt's house. We visited with them for a bit and had tea and watched part of the Devil Wear's Prada..and then at about 11:15 we took a taxi to the trade fair. At first it didn't seem like much, there were lots of people but no booths or anything and we were confused on what it even was. But the longer we walked around the more stuff we found-we bought a LOT of stuff by the end of the day. They had cotton candy and horse rides and a train driving around for the kids and ice cream-it had a lot of the components of a fair-even a couple little kid rides, but it would not be recognized as a fair to anyone from the States. We had a really really good day though! We had to wait a bit for our bus on the way back but we arrived home about 6:45 and started making dinner. It was the 4th of July and Ashley and I decided to try and make some celebration foods. We managed hot dogs, creamed corn, fruit salad, baked beans, and brownies for dessert. Everyone here seemed to like the food..but we'll never know for sure. We made garlic bread for them one night and they loved it!

We also had an adventure going to Ndola this past Friday to train another congregation to do surveys...but that story must be told in person..

Really we never know what's going on. When you don't speak the language it leaves you in the dark a lot, and there are times when we'll show up for some event and it will just not happen. No one else will show up and you'll never know what happened. They keep us on our toes though!

We've had two youth group acitivities now, our third one will be today. We had planned a "lesson" last week and then we offered the opportunity for them to ask questions about our culture and it ended up taking up the entire time!

We're having such a great time, and it's hard to believe that we're only three weeks away from coming home! There is more to write, but it's time for breakfast!!