The beginning of our last week...

This week we have been going to different churches in the mornings to do a VBS full of singing, bible verse memorization, and health basics. It's been fun to see different churches and have a chance to interact with the kids. Then in the afternoons we have been meeting with youth at a different church and experience what a "youth meeting" is like here. They all have endless questions of what it's like to be in America. They all seem to have dreams of getting to America one day... they're all so sweet. Also, at lunch time we have been going to KFC with Adimi. It has been wonderful!! True American food for the first time in a long time. It's the only American food place here... I can't believe we didn't go sooner!

Yesterday, the VBS time was cancelled by the church for some reason, so Adimi took us souvenir shopping! It was lots of fun. We got to experience the "market" where people were selling fresh veggies, fruits, and fish. On the other side of the market there were venders selling homemade goods and souvenirs. It was a lot of fun to be able to watch people carving and making things by hand and to pick out those things for family and friends. It's amazing how hard the people work at making things and how talented they are.

Today we are leading a big youth meeting, consisting of two districts, and the topic is "A Day in the Life of a Nazarene Youth in America." Just as we had many stereotypes in our heads of what Mozambique would be like when coming here, the people here have a "perfect idea" of America. The way our churches (Nazarene) run are very similar and we hope to break those stereotypes for them today. It will be fun to show them how similar we all are. Their youth meetings last much longer though... so we will be learning how to stretch it out as we talk!! I think we are expected to talk for two hours, that's after they shortened our time slot. (it was four hours!)

Tomorrow will be back to VBS and then we are supposed to show the Jesus film in the evening. Keep the prayers coming as we finish out our last week here :) I'm excited to see all of you.

Love Always, Allyson