Yesterday we got a little better settled in and were thankful for a good night's sleep in a horizontal position. Jenny, the cook, prepared some more delicious food...all made from scratch. Her crescent rolls are out of this world.
We met some more missionaries. Bill and Leah DeLaughter and daughters Katrina and Heather are from Arusha, in the northern part of Tanzania. If all works out, they plan to relocate to Dar in a year or so. Also met Sheelah O'Dwyer and children Marcus and Nicola. Sheelah and her husband Jamie are natives of Ireland, and they also serve in Dar.
In the afternoon our other teammates came over from the Ziem house for awhile and Jan and the Petersons worked on the Marriage Enrichment materials. The plan is for the M.E. to start late this afternoon with the missionary couples staying at a local hotel for the meetings. One more couple (Tanzanians) will join them.
In the meantime, we are caring for all the missionaries' children. There are 4 little girls, ages 3-6, at the Buckner house plus 2-yr-old Joey. The older children are staying at the Ziem's.
The kids are adorable, well-behaved, and fun. In addition, 4 1/2-yr-old Danielle is helping us with our Swahili! Tonight we had all 4 little girls in the tub together getting scrubbed up before bedtime. They looked so cute, we had to snap a picture before tucking them in under their mosquito netting.
When the children were in bed, we began unloading the 13 suitcases of "stuff" we brought with us. We stocked up Rochelle's pantry until we ran out of space. The men are looking into building more storage shelves, in addition to other things on the "to-do" list.
Sarah, the other domestic helper, insisted on washing our dirty laundry by hand.
She hangs all the clothes outside to dry.
Early this morning, from our balcony, we could see fishermen casting their nets...not unlike the Galilean fishermen of long ago. We pray that the fishing for souls here will be fruitful now and in the future. Pastor Alphonce has 30 people from a village congregation ready to be baptized, but there is no baptistery available. No, the Indian Ocean is not suitable for this. We hope to be able to remedy this situation. Can you imagine what a sight that would be!
Don is going to show me how to attach pictures when the M.E. is over. We've taken tons already.
2 comments:
wow! Everything is so interesting! I enjoy reading your posts. I wish I sent more bows with Kallie!
I hope it's not at hot there as it is here! It was 93 degrees today!
I wondered where you were going to store all of the contents of the suitcases! I will write more later.
Love, Les
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