Probably not worth waiting for, but good as a diary for me/us?

So I am a complete and utter slacker as I haven't updated it in such a long time, and I have no excuse!

Update on us currently:  We are still undecided about what to do this year.  God seems to be being rather quiet about what he would like us to do, which is rather frustrating!  We are going to see a careers counsellor on Monday, so hopefully he'll shed some light on the situation.

Back to Zambia . . .

3 Week summary commencing 11^th Nov 

Peter and Brenda were away on leadership training course.  This meant that I needed to spend every morning at Bethesda to help with the teaching.  We’ve had a few new kids join Bethesda around then, which was nice.  We also had a German guy, Philip, join Bethesda, which is great.  Unfortunately for him (fortunately for Bethesda!), I handed quite a few tasks over to him to continue with.  I was so proud of our kids, they filled up one and a half shoe boxes to give to some other children (in another poorer community) for Christmas, it was soo generous of them!

While the teacher is away. . .  

The kids got given some donated shoes, on display here

I did a teaching session on nutrition to the Bethesda ladies, I think that seemed to go ok. 

Jono took discipleship two Thursdays which also seemed to go well.  He also took it one Friday, that went poorly as he had no interpreter.  He had to do it at the last minute, because the guy who was meant to do it pulled out L

He also got to preach a final sermon, which he enjoyed.

Doing his thing

Our church

I borrowed a sewing machine off a fellow missionary to attempt to make a tie (or several).  I was thinking it maybe an area that the Bethesda ladies could expand into, add to their repertoire.

Makalulu group had been struggling with low numbers. 

Jono had attended some discipleship classes which he has enjoyed.

We got our work permits finally!!! AND I got my physio registration!!!

We finally got another thunderstorm. 

A CB or something like that

Rain has been lacking for 'rainy' season.  I guess it was running late.  20 mins of rain per week hardly qualifies.

Samuel, one of the Bethesda kids, got burned by his Mum for stealing.  It was quite a big burn about the size of a business card.  It required daily dressings, lucky me. 

Jono did an inventory for donated Bethesda items and continued attending some discipleship classes.

Jono's Movember moe

This was our house, and the guard dogs

Our kitchen/dining area

Toffee!

Prince

We came home one day, and this was our driveway!  They hadn't even warned us they were going to do it.  Lucky we were out, or else our car would have been trapped in for 3 days, which would have been massively inconvenient.

Forgot to put this on the last post, it's a toilet reciept, incase you can't read, for 0.25 NZD.

Prayer thanks
- For safety while we've been travelling
- For the enjoyable times we've had with family and friends

Prayer requests
- For guidance about what we do this year

Bethesda/OM prayer request (We haven't heard much recently)
- That the start of the new term would be going well
- That the students will be learning well
-That the building is going well