June 24th (Sunday)

We had another very enjoyable and restful Sunday with the Christians here in Chitokoloki. We were again able to sleep later than usual and after a bit of breakfast we walked the few hundred meters to the hall. We got there about five minutes to 9:00am (which is when it starts) and the doors had yet to be opened. We chatted with Gordon and a few of the other men here from Canada helping to fix the roof on the Duplex.

We always enjoy the singing and I was trying to subtly record the beautiful music. The hall also has great acoustics for singing! After the gospel meeting was over (which is back-to-back to the breaking of bread service). We were invited to have nshima that the local women had been making in the chota just outside the hall over an open fire. We decided not to have the nshima and instead finish up our leftovers first.

We went back to our house and had a rest or read and listened to music. In addition to that we also had to catch up on doing the laundry and dishes. (Dishes is one of our least favourite chores, plus we say that we do have to employ Thomas and give him something to do, so why not have him do the dishes?) While hanging up some laundry in our screened-in back porch Nicole noticed a little scorpion on the ground. She called for Fiona and I, we took a picture of it and then Fiona went to get her sandal and killed it with a good smack.

We assisted with Sunday school (by sitting with the kids to make sure they behaved, and a stern glance usually does the trick in any language, hahaha). S.S. must have started early as it was very short (in our opinion anyways as we arrived at 3:00pm when it is suppose to start and it probably only lasted 15 minutes).

The Sunday night gathering was hosted by the Hanna’s this week and Tom gave a word of ministry. When we first walked up to the Hanna’s I noticed a dog and he was super friendly -turns out it was Duke the Alsatian (German Shepherd) that belongs to Joey and Kate. Joey had to take him back home. Owen was a little firecracker as always and he really enjoyed when I read to him a storybook about Jonah and the whale. There was also more cake served for Tiffany’s birthday. We all very much enjoyed having cake!//