April 4, 2023
“Practical missionary life is an unexciting thing. It is not sparkling all over with incident. It is very prosaic at times.” ~Amy Carmichael
I’m currently reading through Amy Carmichael books and I always seem to find a quote stating my recent thoughts, though she puts it much more eloquently.
The routine, schedule…everything seems less than exciting, and definitely not glamorous! But life is so full! I have decided that I’m okay with that. We are boring, routine people who use to order the same favorites at restaurants…and that’s okay. God uses different kinds of people for different purposes.
The truck is being repaired so we weren’t able to go to Phokera. Instead we went out in our village, down paths that cars couldn’t get to. We did not find many home as everyone was out in their gardens. God still opened many doors to witness and meet people. You can see Sammy running to give out tracts in the pictures.🥰
It’s funny how shocked people are when they find out that we’re staying down here. They assume we’re staying up north, in Blantyre or further north. White people come down to offer aid, but never live down here (so we’ve been told).
When we greet them in Chichewa, they often are so shocked and it doesn’t register that we are greeting them in their language. They think it is hilarious once someone tells them!
The bulls and cows have been joining our Bible study on Sundays. Sometimes it seems like they’re going to walk right in the midst, but so far they go around.
The kids are usually the first to meet us. Sometimes kids around 5-8 will come carrying younger siblings on their backs. One little girl came with a baby who couldn’t have been more than a couple months. The littlest ones are a little scared of us as they have never seen a white person before. Sometimes it is funny, sometimes it makes me sad as I would love to pick them up and love on them!
Following the children’s lesson, I was walking back to the van carrying my puppet, Isaac, when I noticed an older lady staring at him. So I put my hand in and had Isaac “greet” her. Her eyes got big and she stared at his mouth in shock and started laughing. So I had “him” say as much as I could in Chichewa. She just stared at his mouth in amazement! Lydia and I were as tickled watching her as she was watching Isaac! We think she thought the puppet was actually the one talking!
And I’m excited to report that Eric was able to rig the water so that it works! We had an entire day of water AND electricity! I have been running the washing machine ALL day and doing as much as I could. What a great blessing it has been! Continue to pray that they can get it completely fixed and running normally.
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