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Hello everyone, I am blogging via email again, but it really is me!
So after the cyclone last week we went to Vaz on Saturday morning and there wasnt too much obvious damage, and people werent talking about it. We visited a couple of our guys houses and they looked ok, so that is great. Apparently though the places Soph and I were planning on visiting have been flattened so we are trying to get in contact with our hostels! The weatehr has finally brightened up again today after a week of grey and rain which is nice but we found out last night that Beira would be experiencing severe water shortages for the next two weeks which will be lots of fun I am sure!
We are leaving Beira in less than three weeks! That is scary close, we have t start sorting stuff out soon like packing and saying goodbye and present buying and all sorts! its like getting readfy to come here all over again, we are even having to start thinking about debrief and readsing up about reverse culture shock!
The girls ahad a really horrible time at Manga the other day (i was poorly:( ). it weas the day of the cyclone so the kids were really excitable, but all was going reasonable until they handed out pens for drawing. Normally we take pencils and there isnt a problem but they think that it was the sight of pens that set the kids off, suddenly they were surrounded by all of the kids begging them for pens, like they do for mnoney in town, and when they dropped soem the kids would all leap at them grabbing. They kept trying to tell them to sit sdown and that they would all get a pen, but they wouldn't and the girls found it really hard. When Pastor Manuel came back in the kids settled down though and he explained a lot of stuff about them, like how some are just thrown out of their houses for months and forced to go and beg. Its such a shame that it happened though as we were really starting to get into our work there and I think that it wil be strnage going back this week so please pray that all goes well and that we have the confidence to do it!
In complete contrast Em and I had a really ghreat time with ur youth group on Friday afternoon. They came round to visit us and we ended up spending about three hopurs playing games asinging songs hearing a message and praying together, it was just like a youth group at home. We discovered that Miquitaio really likes the Kooks and Marcelena likes James Blunt. Best bit wa sthat Euridice came in to join us, despite being completely emabarrassed by Rosa introducing her as 'this thing that lives in my house but doesnt like going to church', and then she came with us to church yesterday!
Speaking of I gave 'a word' in church yesterday, not even remotely cheesy like last time. It was very scary but i Spoke on Philippians 4v13 'I can do all things thourgh him who strengthens me' , which is quit a confidence booster. It aklso helped that Euridice had gone though it with me before hand and helped put it into proper Portuguese! So all went well and there was amen-ing involved! Emmas turn next week :)
So thats about it for now byexxxx
So after the cyclone last week we went to Vaz on Saturday morning and there wasnt too much obvious damage, and people werent talking about it. We visited a couple of our guys houses and they looked ok, so that is great. Apparently though the places Soph and I were planning on visiting have been flattened so we are trying to get in contact with our hostels! The weatehr has finally brightened up again today after a week of grey and rain which is nice but we found out last night that Beira would be experiencing severe water shortages for the next two weeks which will be lots of fun I am sure!
We are leaving Beira in less than three weeks! That is scary close, we have t start sorting stuff out soon like packing and saying goodbye and present buying and all sorts! its like getting readfy to come here all over again, we are even having to start thinking about debrief and readsing up about reverse culture shock!
The girls ahad a really horrible time at Manga the other day (i was poorly:( ). it weas the day of the cyclone so the kids were really excitable, but all was going reasonable until they handed out pens for drawing. Normally we take pencils and there isnt a problem but they think that it was the sight of pens that set the kids off, suddenly they were surrounded by all of the kids begging them for pens, like they do for mnoney in town, and when they dropped soem the kids would all leap at them grabbing. They kept trying to tell them to sit sdown and that they would all get a pen, but they wouldn't and the girls found it really hard. When Pastor Manuel came back in the kids settled down though and he explained a lot of stuff about them, like how some are just thrown out of their houses for months and forced to go and beg. Its such a shame that it happened though as we were really starting to get into our work there and I think that it wil be strnage going back this week so please pray that all goes well and that we have the confidence to do it!
In complete contrast Em and I had a really ghreat time with ur youth group on Friday afternoon. They came round to visit us and we ended up spending about three hopurs playing games asinging songs hearing a message and praying together, it was just like a youth group at home. We discovered that Miquitaio really likes the Kooks and Marcelena likes James Blunt. Best bit wa sthat Euridice came in to join us, despite being completely emabarrassed by Rosa introducing her as 'this thing that lives in my house but doesnt like going to church', and then she came with us to church yesterday!
Speaking of I gave 'a word' in church yesterday, not even remotely cheesy like last time. It was very scary but i Spoke on Philippians 4v13 'I can do all things thourgh him who strengthens me' , which is quit a confidence booster. It aklso helped that Euridice had gone though it with me before hand and helped put it into proper Portuguese! So all went well and there was amen-ing involved! Emmas turn next week :)
So thats about it for now byexxxx
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