Today we had our commissioning at the "Ten" at church. It's hard to believe we are leaving in 2 days! wow! I'm not sure about the rest of the group, but I have started my malaria meds today. I'm sure the others have as well. We are allowed 1 bag and I have been wrestling with trying not to overload it. :) Some have decided to bless Seifu and will carry books in another bag to Ethiopia for his village. About 3 years ago my class gathered about 1,500 books for Seifu's village of Archebar. We are still trying to get all the books there!...little by little!
Please pray for us as we prepare to leave. Pray that we will make wise decisions and discern what the Holy Spirit has to tell us. And, of course, pray for safety in travels. (If you know me, you know I am terrified of flying.) Yes, I can feel my blood pressure go up as I even think about it. Ugh. You'd think I'd be over this fear of flying - but I'm not.
We hope to take turns updating the blog while there. I've seen the pictures of the hotels we will stay at and they should have internet access. I am not bringing my computer, but others in the group will. This will be one of the few mission trips I have actually stayed in a hotel.
My fondest (ha) memory of staying in Africa was my first trip to Mozambique where I stayed with the Schmidts. The shower was shared by men and women and on the upstairs patio. There was no lock on the door, so our clue for use was light on - used - light off - empty. The shower was a bathroom/shower in one. So basically you stood in front of the toilet and took a shower. The morning before the shower was freeeeezzzing. So, I decided to get wet, turn off the water, suds up, turn on the water and quickly rinse. Imagine my surprise - 5:30 am, light on, in the shower, and I just finished sudsing up. The power went off. Not only that, the water went off as well. So here I stood all sudsed up, in the dark, with no way to rinse. All I could think of was "light off - empty". I could imagine someone opening up the door for their turn and what a surprise they'd get. I tried to turn the water on and all I could get was a slow trickle down the wall...so I cupped my hand and in the dark tried to splash it on my hair to get out as much shampoo as I could. I then ignored all the soap and tried to dry off, while making a bunch of noise so that no one would think it was empty. :) Yes, I was laughing at myself and thinking...only in Africa. :)
Pam
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