...and another Update

Saturday-Feb. 5^th  -  Another good rain last night.  The weather is so pleasant.  The sun is shining so brightly and the temperature is 70-72 degrees.  We don't miss the cold and snows you are having back home.

Kim and Faye have gone to a ladies meeting at the church and Tim and I are going to town on some errands:  Internet Cafe, post office, electric company buy a one burner propane stove, voda phone and Bharat's camera shop.  This took about 3 hours.  No one gets in a hurry.  And this is Saturday and I think the whole population (150,000) of Tabora was in town.

Most of our afternoon was spent reading. Mama Shani, from one of the schools and a good friend of Tim and Kim came to the house for a visit.  We are invited to her house next Saturday for dinner.

At 6 p.m. the power came on so we watched tv in the evening.  We go to bed around 9:30 – 10:00 p.m.

Sunday-Feb 6^th -  We were awakened during the night by heavy rain and thundering.  Since many are having to buy water for washing, cleaning and bathing the rains help the water supply.  All of our drinking and cooking water is purchased bottled water.

We went to the village of Ndevelwa for church today.  It is 10 miles from Tabora but seeemed like 100.  The road is sandy with many potholes, washed out places.  Those holes were full of water after the heavy rain.  A man in town sent a vehicle and driver to take us to the village.  If people from the states could see these roads they would never complain about their County Judges again.

There were 34 people from the area came to church.  About half of them were children between 2 and 10 years old.  We really sensed the need for more workers.  Two men were saved and two came for baptism that had been saved recently.  One of those two saved was the father of the child who died Friday.  Bro. John preached a simple, powerful salvation message.

After lunch we all had a nap.  Sunday evening services begin at 5:00 p.m. so the afternoon went by rather quickly.

Sunday night is popcorn night.  Arriving home we were surprised to find the power still on.  (It was scheduled to  go off at 6:00 p.m.)  Tim very quickly began to pop the corn.  He filled a  dish pan full before the power was cut off.  So we were able to keep the Sunday night tradition.  While we were enjoying the popcorn a man (electrician) whom we had met 2 ½ years ago, came with his three little boys to greet the visitors from America.

Tim and I stayed up to watch the Super Bowl.  It came on at 2:30 a.m. here but it was a live telecast.  The game ended at 6:00 a.m.  Now it is 6:15 a.m. so OFF TO BED!!