Settling In

Almost two weeks now here in Petauke, and we're starting to get to know the village quite well.  We have established our service schedule and gotten the necessary items for our home here. We go in the ministry every day except Monday, when we do our cleaning and laundry washing. The service is wonderful, as of right now we have four bible studies each. Its exciting having bible discussions at almost every door we go to.

When we walk down the streets the children will say "Ozoongoo, Ozoongoo" ("White person, White person") but we have been replying with "No my name is Kalila" or " No, my name is Micah".  So the kids now have been coming after us yelling "Kareera! Kareera!" or " Meeka! Meeka!".  Its pretty cute.
Some of the children in the congregation like to come and visit us in the evenings.  The other night they came over and wanted to braid Kalila's hair very badly so they were thrilled when she let her hair down and handed them the brush. Our hair is a very different texture so they find it very amusing to play with it.  In return we had them help us cook some of the local food (Nshema, the staple food here), which turned out quite well.  The girl who helped us is 8.  She did a great job. 

We haven't had electricity the last couple days so we have been consuming our fair share of PB & J sandwiches and fruit under the candle light. 

Unfortunately a few sisters in our congregation have Malaria right now so we've been visiting them regularly during the week. They started getting sick over the weekend but the hospitals did not have any medicine to give them, and told them to come back on Monday.
The electricity is going in and out, so thats all for now.  We'll post pictures on Flickr.

We miss everyone!