November team report! Guess the theme!
November Report (not October or December)
Hello Oasis UK,
Here is our November report:
It is a good report of November
So here you go, a report, all about November
We are actually going to write it now all about November……
November report, part one
Living arrangements- see report from October, the month before November, as this is actually our November report not October, and we are still living in the same places as October, even though it is now November. We had a bit of an issue in Sophie and Ambers house when it rained, in November, as the rain was coming in to their room but this was sorted with the aid of a board, good. Lizzie and Rachel are now adjusting to the water situation, and have plucked up the courage to just ask for it. Apparently there is a switch, which they didn’t know about in October, but found out about in November, also good. Our families are really great and sophie and amber are encouraged to dance lots to this really cool shonna cd. Edgar (their dad) speaks really good english but seems to like talking a lot about thieves (or teeths as he says) and was on top form when lizzy and rachel came for dinner the other night.
November report, part two
Work activities- unlike in October, unfortunately Lizzie has not been able to go to Vaz much so Rachel has had to go on her own, with various people accompanying her. This has been ok, but a bit tiring and occasionally frustrating. However the work is going really well and good relationships are being built up with the youth there.
Sophie and Amber are enjoying the work in November and are going to Nhamatanda with people from their church this weekend to visit people and the churches there. They have been involved with a good evangelism programme which has really encouraged the youth to get involved. We are all enjoying going to Lee’s and playing with the kids as well which we only started in this month. Which is November.
November report, part three
Relationships with overseers- despite the fact that it is now November, to be fair it has been November for a few weeks and will soon be December, but anyways, despite it being November, we still all really love marina. She is brilliant! And a really good cook. As for our overseers at church….two out of the three at Sophie and Amber’s church have moved to plant new churches, but the Pastor is great and looking after them well. The relationships with the Vaz overseers are really good, they giggle a lot, and Pastor Samuel has been really encouraging in his talks with Marina.
November report, part four
Well being of the team- Well….you can probably tell we are in a bit of a crazy mood today, maybe due to the fact that we spent half an hour drawing pictures of missionaries and giving them random names. You can blame Jim for this, as this was after his talk. However it makes a change to yesterday when we were all crying about various things (but that did mean we got to go to the nice café and have amazing cakes for training today). We are all going through the 6 week stage as marina calls it, even though its been 7 weeks now- we are being African and being late. Can’t wait till savanne next week! Lizzy is still ill its been nearly three weeks now and they still don’t really know whats wrong with her. She has been on loads of medication and had many trips to the doctors. One of which thought she was an ex Russian girlfriend coming back to haunt him…we think not. But November is a happy month and we are all still giggling a lot about random stuff, must be the time of year, which just so happens to be November! As well as culture shock, we blame everything on that. But it is ambers birthday next week yey! Party(the last day of November incidentally- a great day to finish off a great month)
November report, part five
Finance- As in October, we have done a finance report for November which sophie will send after retreat to include that. Which incidentally will be the beginning of December so will include the whole of November- aren’t you lucky!
November report, part six
Problems and issues- other than the fact that we are going slowly insane…we are having various ups and downs but mainly ups which is cool. We are all really looking forward to a few days break next week. Even though we get back on the last day of November, which is quite sad, the end of an era almost….
There was a food trauma the other day- on the whole the food has been good however sophie and amber sat down for dinner the other night and there were these weird brown things. They asked what they were and apparently they were goats stomach wrapped in liver- a delicacy over here!! Needless to say it wasn’t their favourite food of their time here. Sister betty and Raquel have also been fed some dried fish stuff which was in their words inedible. At least we have cakes to fall back on.
Sophie and Amber had soul survivor in their living room last weekend! 20 people from their families church were sprawled on the floor when they came back at 9pm on Friday night. They remained in the same positions until approx 9am Sunday morning when they went to church. Despite their lack of sleep, the girls found the whole event quite amusing and even enjoyed being woken up to their singing at 4am! Rachel was walking past at 7.30am on sat morning and could hear them…even though they are actually situated on the 5th floor of the building! No wonder the neighbours have previously thought there was a thief (teeth) in their house. We all hope that this is only an experience that occurs in November, not future months, such as December, January, February or March. After that we will be home so it won’t actually affect them a great deal.
November report, part seven
Prayer requests-here are our prayer requests for the month of November (not june)
Lizzy- health, that the doctors will be able to prescribe her with the correct medication to make her better. Also that she will be filled with peace about the situation and won’t feel discouraged and frustrated.
Sophie- homesickness as she is really feeling at the minute, with little things reminding her of home. Also the poverty is really getting to her again so pray for strength to deal with it.
Amber – she has changed her mind about what course she wants to do at uni but it is proving difficult to try and sort it out. Also for homesickness aswell.
Rachel- she is finding the work challenging and tiring going to vaz on her own and really really needs this retreat. Please pray for motivation and energy for her work and that she can really relax next week.
General – language: we are all improving but still finding it hard.
That sophie and amber will have a safe journey to Nhamatanda this weekend (sat-sun) and will have a good time there.
Retreat – we can all have a really relaxing time and have some good God time aswell so we come back to Beira really inspired.
So there you have it, our smashing novemberish report full of novembery type things and coming to you from us with loving novemberlike thoughts. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lots of love the great but slightly deranged moz team xxxxxxxxx
Hello Oasis UK,
Here is our November report:
It is a good report of November
So here you go, a report, all about November
We are actually going to write it now all about November……
November report, part one
Living arrangements- see report from October, the month before November, as this is actually our November report not October, and we are still living in the same places as October, even though it is now November. We had a bit of an issue in Sophie and Ambers house when it rained, in November, as the rain was coming in to their room but this was sorted with the aid of a board, good. Lizzie and Rachel are now adjusting to the water situation, and have plucked up the courage to just ask for it. Apparently there is a switch, which they didn’t know about in October, but found out about in November, also good. Our families are really great and sophie and amber are encouraged to dance lots to this really cool shonna cd. Edgar (their dad) speaks really good english but seems to like talking a lot about thieves (or teeths as he says) and was on top form when lizzy and rachel came for dinner the other night.
November report, part two
Work activities- unlike in October, unfortunately Lizzie has not been able to go to Vaz much so Rachel has had to go on her own, with various people accompanying her. This has been ok, but a bit tiring and occasionally frustrating. However the work is going really well and good relationships are being built up with the youth there.
Sophie and Amber are enjoying the work in November and are going to Nhamatanda with people from their church this weekend to visit people and the churches there. They have been involved with a good evangelism programme which has really encouraged the youth to get involved. We are all enjoying going to Lee’s and playing with the kids as well which we only started in this month. Which is November.
November report, part three
Relationships with overseers- despite the fact that it is now November, to be fair it has been November for a few weeks and will soon be December, but anyways, despite it being November, we still all really love marina. She is brilliant! And a really good cook. As for our overseers at church….two out of the three at Sophie and Amber’s church have moved to plant new churches, but the Pastor is great and looking after them well. The relationships with the Vaz overseers are really good, they giggle a lot, and Pastor Samuel has been really encouraging in his talks with Marina.
November report, part four
Well being of the team- Well….you can probably tell we are in a bit of a crazy mood today, maybe due to the fact that we spent half an hour drawing pictures of missionaries and giving them random names. You can blame Jim for this, as this was after his talk. However it makes a change to yesterday when we were all crying about various things (but that did mean we got to go to the nice café and have amazing cakes for training today). We are all going through the 6 week stage as marina calls it, even though its been 7 weeks now- we are being African and being late. Can’t wait till savanne next week! Lizzy is still ill its been nearly three weeks now and they still don’t really know whats wrong with her. She has been on loads of medication and had many trips to the doctors. One of which thought she was an ex Russian girlfriend coming back to haunt him…we think not. But November is a happy month and we are all still giggling a lot about random stuff, must be the time of year, which just so happens to be November! As well as culture shock, we blame everything on that. But it is ambers birthday next week yey! Party(the last day of November incidentally- a great day to finish off a great month)
November report, part five
Finance- As in October, we have done a finance report for November which sophie will send after retreat to include that. Which incidentally will be the beginning of December so will include the whole of November- aren’t you lucky!
November report, part six
Problems and issues- other than the fact that we are going slowly insane…we are having various ups and downs but mainly ups which is cool. We are all really looking forward to a few days break next week. Even though we get back on the last day of November, which is quite sad, the end of an era almost….
There was a food trauma the other day- on the whole the food has been good however sophie and amber sat down for dinner the other night and there were these weird brown things. They asked what they were and apparently they were goats stomach wrapped in liver- a delicacy over here!! Needless to say it wasn’t their favourite food of their time here. Sister betty and Raquel have also been fed some dried fish stuff which was in their words inedible. At least we have cakes to fall back on.
Sophie and Amber had soul survivor in their living room last weekend! 20 people from their families church were sprawled on the floor when they came back at 9pm on Friday night. They remained in the same positions until approx 9am Sunday morning when they went to church. Despite their lack of sleep, the girls found the whole event quite amusing and even enjoyed being woken up to their singing at 4am! Rachel was walking past at 7.30am on sat morning and could hear them…even though they are actually situated on the 5th floor of the building! No wonder the neighbours have previously thought there was a thief (teeth) in their house. We all hope that this is only an experience that occurs in November, not future months, such as December, January, February or March. After that we will be home so it won’t actually affect them a great deal.
November report, part seven
Prayer requests-here are our prayer requests for the month of November (not june)
Lizzy- health, that the doctors will be able to prescribe her with the correct medication to make her better. Also that she will be filled with peace about the situation and won’t feel discouraged and frustrated.
Sophie- homesickness as she is really feeling at the minute, with little things reminding her of home. Also the poverty is really getting to her again so pray for strength to deal with it.
Amber – she has changed her mind about what course she wants to do at uni but it is proving difficult to try and sort it out. Also for homesickness aswell.
Rachel- she is finding the work challenging and tiring going to vaz on her own and really really needs this retreat. Please pray for motivation and energy for her work and that she can really relax next week.
General – language: we are all improving but still finding it hard.
That sophie and amber will have a safe journey to Nhamatanda this weekend (sat-sun) and will have a good time there.
Retreat – we can all have a really relaxing time and have some good God time aswell so we come back to Beira really inspired.
So there you have it, our smashing novemberish report full of novembery type things and coming to you from us with loving novemberlike thoughts. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lots of love the great but slightly deranged moz team xxxxxxxxx
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