Only 2 weeks left!!

Time is flying by here, it is hard to believe we are coming to an end. Next Sunday will be our last at the church because weleave for Livingstone and Victoria Falls on the 25th.

The most eventfull day this week was when we went to do Home Based Care in a remote village. They told us it was about a 30 minute drive, but we weren't surprised it turned out to be a lot longer. And our trip made us see the didication that the HBC volunteers have, as they bike to this village each week to give care and encouragement.

Back to our journey. The rain had made one of the dirt paths we tried to drive (in our regular mini bus) undrivable, so we drove back and tried another one. This time the wheels spun and we were well and truly stuck. They tried to lay leaves and branches for the tires to grip but nothing worked. The decided we should walk because the village was "close".

An hour of walking in the scorching heat later and we arrived! We were already tired and knew we would have to walk back to the van!

We visited a man with TB and took time to pray with him. We left and headed for the next house which we were told would be our last one because of time...all that way and we only got to visit 2 patients. However, our walk to the next house took us about half and hour! This time an older man with what looked like severe parkinsons spoke softy of the troubles he had, that he hadn't been able to walk without help for 5 years and that his shaking made it impossible for him to do things. He also kept a wash cloth in his hands and would wipe the constant stream of drool from his mouth. This man was so precious, i was overwhelmed with compassion for him, and how helpless he was. So vulnerable. He was blessed to have a caring and healthy wife who had taken on the sole of bread winner for their family, but how many elderly here don't have people to care for them and are left alone?

It all seems so unfair. His condition could be treated but they have no money or transport to get medical care and so they simply exist and trust God with their futures. This mans name was Rogers, please pray for him and his family.

Then we headed back to the van...at lweast 10 minutes of this walk was on a very narrow mud track with 10foot hig grass surrounding us. Definatley made me feel like i was in Africa!!

We also encountered the divil ants (our nickname) they are about 1 inch long with huge red bums and they bite SO HARD. Not nice.

This week we also had some friends over for dinner, we did a puppet show for the kids after we ae which they loved, and then turned into a dance party! It was alot of fun, and we are really going to be sad to leave them.

Yesterday i took some pictures of the beautiful flowers and plants that are on the farm. Somuch vibrant colour everywhere! The fruit trees too, and the children showed me where the orange tree was. I thought they had misunderstood me when we arrived at what i had thought was a lime tree, because of the green fruit, but then they peeled one and we ate it, and what do you know, it was an orange. A green orange - I love Africa!!!