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30/9/2014

Being a hot climate (about 33 degrees today) the cock roaches sprint along at an amazing rate when I turn the light on at night. The kitchen bench also seems to be a race track for large fierce-looking ants about 12 times larger than NZ ants. Iri says they bite fiercely, too. I have just turned on the kitchen tap and about three crawled out ahead of the flow of water. How gross!

The mosquitoes are succumbing to the electrified, battery-operated tennis racquet. No, I am not going mad, just look it up on the web and you will see these wonderfully useful items.

I found a spider in the bed one day and have killed 6 mosquitoes within the net over the bed. However, no mosquito bite has produced malaria yet. Thank God for that! The cook has developed malaria and there is typhoid about as well, because of a dicey water situation. Our vaccinations are holding out, though. Phew!

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Village Visit

29/9/2014

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We have not long returned back to base after a bone-shaking 2.75 hour journey each way to a remote village. There was no particular major service like the confirmation service we had attended on Monday.

Monday's visit to Kachini was amazing in the overwhelming welcome we got. Apparently, the Bishop had never visited this church before and so the welcome was ecstatic to say the least. We were embraced like long-lost cousins and the people of the other religion had turned out also to see what was going on. We had an amazing number of people healed of painful conditions and I prayed for a woman who was infertile and depressed because of it. She was the third wife and barren, so life did not seem worth living to her. The smile on her face after the prayer made the journey worthwhile. Both religions were represented in the people who were healed, so we are very thrilled.

Tuesday was a rest day - we went to see the Kondoa Spring. Now today we visited Kikore and there were about 25 people who attended a simple service of prayer and preaching. THey were very pleased that we had brought 8 Swahili Bibles.

I am hoping that the increased activity in my large intestine does not herald a night sitting above porcelain. :-/

This photo shows me wearing the Kondoa Mother's Union blouse I made.

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Post-Quilt Display News

10/9/2014

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ForWell, the quilt display was great fun. About 14 or 15 people came both days and together with the gifts of people who could not come, we raised about $500 to help fund the next mission trip to Kondoa. I enjoyed showing the quilts and seeing other people's enjoyment of them. I had not been able to complete the quilting of my own patchwork, but had it hung up from the door frame by trouser hangers (!) so its fulll beauty could be seen.

However, the news that my husband's mother had died came on the first day and overshadowed the quilt parties. Sometimes an unforeseen seismic shift occurs in one's life and this was one of those days. We wonder why God chose that particular day to take her home, but certainly are grateful that it did not happen while we were overseas. Death never is convenient or welcome - it is of course, the last enemy that will be defeated.

So Ian and I fly out next week and will be taking contributions of embroidery thread for a specific project that the Kondao sewing class are going to do. I will also take embroidery needles and small pairs of scissors.

The other objects we will take are as many simple bottle openers as we can carry. As you can see in the picture, if there are no bottle openers available, teeth are used. When you need a drink and this is the safe liquid available... Well, enough said. We want to take as many as possible.

This will be my last post for a while (so what is new :-) ) but Ian will be posting a blog to keep you able to track our time in Kondoa.

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