So, how was your weekend? Did you do anything particularly exciting? Ours wasn’t exactly exciting, but it was busy. Saturday I spent at least half the day in the kitchen, preparing food for both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday evening George, Jacob and I went to town to pick up Charles, our translator, along with his new bride! They were so cute together; Charles had the biggest grin on his face and his bride, Editha, kept smiling and shyly ducking her head. We took them home and left them with a few groceries to have for the evening. If you want to see a picture of the happy couple, go to our latest travelblog entry.
Sunday services were fairly typical. There is no real Bible class time. We began by singing a few songs, then the sermon was presented, followed by the Lord’s Supper. Then there is a closing song, a prayer, announcements, and then an exit song. Everything except for one prayer was in Swahili only. Charles and Editha rode with us to and from services (about a 25 minute drive), and we invited them to come to our house for lunch after services. I fixed curry coconut chicken, rice, green beans, sliced homemade bread, and banana pieces. Kind of a combination between Tanzanian and American food. Pretty good if I say so myself!
For the afternoon, we all kind of laid around and relaxed or took a nap. Since our ice cream maker has been repaired thanks to George, Linz had the bright idea of making homemade lemon ice cream. The kids worked on that and after it was finished, our family had a devotion time of singing. We’ve found that it’s harder for us to sing the English songs now, because the Swahili songs have very little range as far as high and low notes. After singing, we had a bite of supper, followed by homemade ice cream. It was GOOD! We ran out of water in our top tank, and the power was out, which means we would have to run the generator in order to pump water from our cistern to the small tank on our house, so dishes had to wait. Oh well. Then we went over to the Samfords and watched a couple of National Geographic shows on African wildlife. How appropriate! We returned home and got ready for bed with the aid of our oil lanterns. It was a peaceful way to end the Lord’s day.
Have a great week, everyone!
Your weekend sounds lovely! We spent all day Saturday at Dustin's Lego Robotics Tournament. We had a wonderful time and his team did really well, and most especially enjoyed themselves. The Robotics has been a great learning experience for Dustin. David and Daniel worked on plumbing, then we had a yummy dinner Saturday evening that Shari Goring sent, so no one had to cook. This was the first Sunday of the new quarter, and I got to be in the adult class where Lance is doing an excellent job teaching on Corinthians. Sunday afternoon found us doing a bit of cleaning to start the week off minus chaos, then wonderful evening worship at Darren and Shauna's house. It is so uplifting to get to worship with Shauna again and hear her sweet voice blending with ours in praises to God. Dudley gave a very informative lesson on the falsely so called "Jehovah Witness" religion. Just a great weekend.
I love you, Joy. Thanks for sharing your weekend with us! xoxo
~Debbie
Our weekend was exciting! We had a engagement party at our house (pictures are on our blog 🙂 on Saturday. Sunday, we had a wonderful worship service and napped that afternoon (your Sunday afternoons sound like ours! ;). Sunday night, was our 4th Sunday singing night, which is always fabulous. 😉
Yummy! I love homemade ice cream! I know Lindsey did a great job.
Marli
Sounds lovely!
We went to Affirming the Faith and it was oh-so wonderful and uplifting. On Sunday we had a baptism (even more uplifting) and Jeremy preached a really great lesson Sunday night (the morning lesson was good too… The evening was great ;o) ). That was our weekend!!
Our weekend was pretty quiet. I did some scrapbooking on Friday night and Aaron played with James. We had a bible discussion group Saturday night on the book of Mark. Sunday afternoon, I rested after lunch and then we had a friend over for a movie Sunday evening. Sorry you were out of water! 🙁 I am very glad to hear Charles and Editha were able to marry. I hope you have a good week.