Two More Weeks!

We're down to the two week countdown! Ashley and I have been having such a wonderful time, but we'll be ready to be home in two weeks.

This week we had the bible study on Wednesday which we planned quite quickly because as I said we weren't sure if we were supposed to plan it or not..so we just wanted it there in case they asked us. Turns out we weren't supposed to plan it..which is lucky because it was my turn to lead the bible study part and I planned it so fast it was really quite lame. So, I was happy to be given longer..if they ask us to do it again..we're not sure..as usual.

Thursday we hung out in the morning, then women's group in the afternoon. Sleepless in Seattle was on TV for the "chick flick" movie (which is every thursday) at 8 pm and that was a nice treat :)

Friday we had another survey day. We walked to the church at 9 am and people showed up when they felt like it...we stayed until about 3 when the last one came back with the completed surveys and then walked home. I made the mistake of going out to the outhouse while we were waiting at the church and the neighborhood kids saw that we were there and proceded to be as obnoxious as possible. They were banging on the door, slaming it open and running away yelling at us through the windows. We were trying to plan our weekend activities so it was really quite distracting but talking to them at all just made the game more fun. So we tried..kind of unsuccesfully to ignore them. Luckily the pastor came back soon and her very presence scared them away.

We came home and watched Shrek 3 then had dinner and went to bed.

Now today was another strange day. Yesterday we mentioned to the pastor that we wanted to hang some drawings up that the kids did last week-we wanted permission to do this in the church. It turned into a conversation about the kids activity and she was surprised to hear we wanted to do it again today, she thought it was just a one time thing. So she said they would have to announce it in church again on Sunday, and we'd do it next week-she said today we wouldn't have any kids because it wasn't announced last week. So that was a bummer, but then Ashley was worried some of the kids would show up since we told them to come back last week and Catherine assumed we would be going and told Chilando (her nephew) to get ready to go with us this morning. So we decided to walk down there and sure enough we had about 8 or 9 kids waiting for us. But no translator...and the REALLY weird thing was that the Pastor's children were there. We can't figure that one out-she told us no one would come because they didn't know about it so we cancelled it, and then somehow her children were there...they like to keep us on our toes..
Without a translator it was hard to do the full lesson Ashley planned, so we taught them some songs and played games, and talked a bit about the lesson, as much as we thought they would understand and then we went through some English words etc. Then games outside and then we went home.

We've been hanging out around the house most of the day-we have no water right now, so we went and bought some bottled water in the hopes it will come back on soon. Everyone in the area seems to have no water though-when we were walking to church we saw lots of people walking carrying water jugs etc. It's been two days now..so hopefully soon it will come back..