Chillaxin'

After church last week

I just sent out an email update (which you can sign up for on the home page of my blog), but I thought I'd share some more photos and silly stories here for posterities sake. ;)

So, here are the highlights of the past week. First off, in case you haven't already noticed, I get to hang out with some pretty crazy people. Every day is full of hilarious adventures. Every Sunday we attend a different church. Since we are all here for training, everyone is out of their comfort zone to some extent. It's been so fun for me to walk through exploring new things with this group of people.

We like TV. Like, too much. So much that we need to like keep the TV in a different room... and we may have plowed through four seasons of Psych and like one or two dozen movies in the past two weeks. It's also possible that we spent 16 hours on Saturday eating popcorn and sitting on couches. While this is great bonding time, I promise we've also been learning a lot and the breaks are well-deserved. This photo is from training last week. We've been studying the characteristics of the Father and the truth of our identity in Him. We nailed all our insecurities and worries and fears to the cross - literally. Then we burned them. It was an eye-opening experience and has been so freeing for me as well as others.

Yesterday after church I finally got a chance to explore downtown Harare a bit. There is a chicken restaurant with the slogan "Luv dat chicken." I have yet to try it, but I can only hope it will fill the Chick-fil-A shaped hole in my heart. We were able to get some ice cream and make memories. It wasn't comparable to Whitey's Ice Cream in the QCA or to Andy's Frozen Custard in Springfield, but ice cream is ice cream, right? I am halfway through my time at this house with these wonderful new friends, and I'm sad to think that it will come to an end soon.

But alas, new adventures lie ahead. Thanks all for supporting me on this journey. Please enjoy this photo of sausages that spell "God."

Learning points:

• Don't wear red in a rainstorm because apparently the superstition is that if you wear red you will get struck by lightning.
• People are people no matter where you are. I love people.
• I should probably stop writing updates late at night when I'm deprived of sleep.