Last weekend we also had 'Rock Of Hope' (Sunday School). About 20 children came along both from the dorm and children living on site. It went really well and it was really good to see them interacting and joining in discussions as opposed to having to listen to a long adult talk at church.
This week Jona has been helping out a bit with P.E lessons and unfortunately on Thursday hadn't quite realised how strong the sun was as it seemed a bit overcast-eek! He's now glowing red!!!
We had youth group on Thursday evening again- we were thankful that the rain held off (because you can't hear anybody if the rain hammers on the tin roof) and that the power stayed on! The youth group is optional for the kids but it was great that all of the secondaries chose to come (roughly 40). We voted on a new name and they chose 'T4:12' which represents the bible verse 1 Timothy 4:12 which talk about not letting anyone make you feel unimportant just because your young. We played lots of games and had a very messy demonstration (using old baked beans and gravy) to represent the gospel message. They seemed to really enjoy it :-)
Yesterday we visited immigration and got a 2 month extension on our visa's but were quite shocked to find out that we had to pay an additional 1million Kwacha- roughly 100 pounds as top-up fee's on our visa because of the new government! Eek. Oh well- at least we can stay in the country now!
We now have a nice free weekend together- enjoying doing nothing!! We had some friends over for dinner last night. The guy in yellow is called Jarret who I am working alongside doing youth work. All of the lovely ladies are from Ireland and are a combination of secondary and primary teachers. However, they all leave in April :-(
its fab to see your having a good time x
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