Feeling too overwhelmed right now to write anything interesting, but life itself is constantly interesting so I will just share the events of our Sunday here.

1) attended the village Pentecostal church beacause of Daniel, the pastor, and our new indoor worker. The service was 2 1/2 hours long and we found out part way through it that I was the featured preacher!! Talk about a surprise. I gave a short text from Jeremiah, the part where God tells Jeremiah to go out and speak His words and Jeremiah protests that He is only a child and has nothing to say. I told them, vulnerably, how like a small child I am here – I do not know the simplest things about how to survive here- and how I argued with God about coming. I told them that God loves them so much and that He sent us here as a constant reminder of His great love for them. I prayed hard through the whole thing so I pray that the Spirit will use it in people’s hearts.

2) Lunch at home with Bright Patrick, a ten year old boy who told me that he has been watching out for his four siblings while his mother is in the hospital. He had no food in his home so I sent beans and rice home with him.

3) greeted visitors needing loans or wanting money for seeds, etc.

4) fended off mountains of local children while trying to have some family down time

5) Were taken by Nekson to see his cocoa trees and the rest of his property, greeted his extended family in their homes or yards, saw cocoa, coffee, sweet potato, and sugar cane growing. Got to try our first sugar cane in the home of him and his wife.

6) walked home and checked in with team friends who had found a six foot long black snake in their home that day!! Saw the hole in the ceiling where the snake had come through. Locals claim it is a cobra but we are not sure. Feeling creepy crawly last night and today. Our ceiling is half exposed and the former resident of this home claim to have found a big snake skin in the attic. The snakes like the heat and the rats in the attics here. Pray for us to have peace about this!

7) enjoyed a late dinner of roasted pumpkin and made from scratch pigs in a blanket with real American mustard!!!!! (wow, and I never used to like mustard but it tasted so . . . Well, American!!)

curled up (all four of us, the family bed is great when you need it!) inside our cozy mosquito netted bed and were swallowed by the deep darkness of the night here, heard a large and loud owl calling from the back yard as we drifted off to sleep