Greetings, our internet telephone hotspot seems to be working well this afternoon so I am going to attempt to post again.
As we flew in we passed by Mt Kilimanjaro which at 16,000 feet is the highest peak in Africa.
Here is another picture of our class with my co-teacher and the translator. He has excellent English skills.
Notice how small the class is. In the bottom right corner is the teaching desk and then there is a blackboard behind us. A great bunch of Pastors and Evangelists.
Across the street from the school is the Tarime village dump which is smoking most of the time, has dogs, goats, and pigs and people sorting through the garbage and these big ugly ugly birds. In the evening we get the smoke coming into the compound which is not helping my cough.
We have a young man cooking for us whose name is Johnie and here is what he has to work with. More smoke.
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I am feeling well and sleeping well except for coughing fits. My room mate is also fighting a cold and having coughing fits at night so we have learned to accept one another. Tomorrow is teaching in the morning and then the students write an exam. Friday evening we will drive for 3 hours to the Serengeti Game Reserve and stay at a hotel just outside the park and begin our safari at 6:30 am and stay in the park all day, then drive to Mwanza in the evening to another hotel and get up early to begin our trip home on Sunday morning. I arrive back in Buffalo Monday evening.
Thank you for praying. Though this has been an emotionally trying and physically trying trip, God has shown His Goodness to me and my family and I praise God. What a joy to see the church growing here. One area we visited today had people killing each other with bows and arrows and knives 10 years ago but today because of the Gospel things have slowly changed. I will close for now hoping to see you soon. ron
Three of us are working through a 3G hotspot on a mobile phone to connect to the internet so I am going to make this short and hopefully get it sent out tonight.
Flight and connections all went very well so thank you for praying. We arrived at the school here after a 3 1/2 hour drive into the country after we landed in Mwanza. This is a more remote area not a city. Running water is not working at present but we do have plenty of bucket water from the cistern for all our needs and bottled water to drink. Below is a picture of my mosquito netted bed and African toilet.
The classrooms are small. We now have 5 students which we are teaching through a translator and this is going well.
Here is the church I preached at on Sunday from Colossians 3.1-17
Getting to this church was quite a ride with major potholes on a dirt road the width of a motorcycle path. Nothing like the sound of the bottom of your vehicle scraping on the road over and over again. The church is at the foot of the mountain away from the village and I commend this Pastor for his willingness to build his church and his house here as he said because these people have no church is this area. My heart was warmed to see the sing below.
I will consider it a miracle if this makes it your computer. Here goes. ron
