The weekend seemed like a whirlwind of events, so I’ll do my best to share them all with you. Saturday we went to a youth singing competition. It began at 1:00 and we didn’t get home until around 9:30. It was a long day! It was great to hear all of their singing, and of course they had us sing for them too. They loved it, and always enjoy all the hand motions. But like I have said before, you cannot leave a church until they feed you. They think it is incredibly rude, so we always, always eat. This particular time we were lead to this table full of pots of pans. There was rice, this stuff that looks like grits, but is really hard, and then this brown bony meat, which was cut up into squares. I thought the meat looked really interesting, but of course, we took some of everything that was offered and ate it! I chewed quickly, but politely and tried to avoid the big chunks of bone. Later on at home I asked what kind of meat we had eaten… it was goat! So the singing went well and we left with bellies full of goat, what a day. We rested up and were off for church on Sunday..
Well it was my first Father’s Day to spend away from Dad :( We went to a new church, as we do every Sunday, and once again it was a hut. But this was one quite a bit bigger than the last one. We got there at 8:00 for the Portuguese service, then Sunday school, then the Shangaan service after that. It was really awesome to see all the Dads being celebrated as they sang many songs together and the men danced and sang! The Restrick’s had planned to take a missionary friend of theirs out to lunch after church and had called the pastor to tell him that we wouldn’t be eating on Sunday so he wouldn’t be offended if we didn’t eat. I was kind of excited and we headed to the car after church but didn’t get very far. They told us to be sure we have a cup of juice before we left. Dave told us we all needed to, so back into the hut we went and were lead to chairs that were set up just for us! There was a familiar theme going on as pots and pans were brought out, full of rice, white grit stuff, and square bony meat!! I ate the goat pieces that were on my plate and tried to concentrate on the graciousness and hospitality of these loving people as I did so- it was the only way to get through it. We lived, and headed onto the airport to pick up the Restrick’s friend, and headed to a restaurant. It was such a treat and it was great food! A real Hawaiian pizza and a Coke Light made my day. We dropped their friend back off at the airport, because he was only in for a layover, and went back to the house to pick up the blankets we had been working on.
We headed out to the boy’s orphanage to give them the blankets that we had made last week! It was so much fun to see their excitement. We had a little service and were able to all sing together. The orphanage has come so far in the last couple weeks because it was brand new. It’s just a house that a man started allowing children with no homes come and live in. He is teaching them and receiving donations to provide for their needs. It was a blessing to see everything that God is doing in that place. After returning home, I was able to call home and talk to mom, dad, and Zach. It was so good to talk to them, especially since it was Father’s Day. Time seems to go faster and faster as the days pass, so we are doing our best to enjoy our time as much as possible. The last several days I have dealt with terrible stomach aches and other flu like symptoms. Rhoda thinks that the food we ate during the Jesus Film was somehow contaminated because the four of us have felt under the weather. We are beginning to feel a little better and pray that we continue to do so :) But now the Restrick's have left for their three and a half week journey to Northern Mozambique so we will be on our own for most of the remainder of our trip. It will be different from what we have been used to, but hopefully it will all go smoothly. Love Always, Allyson
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