Quite a day!

Since there is a team of high school students here from one of the missionaries' home church, we decided to join the team for some of their activities this week. Today was a "field trip" day of a different sort. 

This morning, the plan was to help build a house for a mzee (which means grandfather and is pronounced "mzay"). He is a part of our mercy outreach and became a believer through this outreach. He also attends our church. We were helping to build him a mud hut. This is right up Ezra's alley, an excuse to get very muddy and to build something! As you can see he loved helping mix the mud! 

Some men in the village set some eucalyptus poles. We learned to tie the horozontal bamboo poles using banana fibers and then fill the wall with mud. We were able to get work done on two of the walls before we needed to break for lunch. 

We also had a chance to visit with many of the children in the village and pray with the mzee. The children showed Esther where they keep their rabbits and ducks in a mud hutch. These are kept for meat on special occasions, not as pets, but they were still cute.

Zeke also made a few new friends. As the youngest mzungu around, he is often surrounded with curious kids. He has learned to enjoy this attention and often shows off his dancing skills. Most of the places we go around here, we here someone calling Zeke's name. 

In the afternoon, I stayed home with our younger three children so that David and Elijah could go with the team back to Buundo and invite people to our church for a video about Jesus to be shown on Thursday night. They also took time to pray with those they met and share the gospel. Elijah was in a group with one of the visiting youth leaders and had an opportunity to share the gospel with some local teenagers. Please pray that the seeds planted today will grow and bear much fruit. Also pray for the viewing of the video about Jesus in the Luganda language. 

Our day ended with our weekly, evening devotions. Daniel Iya has been leading us in some worship songs on Wednesday nights, and I always love the opportunity to worship together, particularly when a team is with us to fill the room with our voices lifted in praise. 

I am thankful for the day to serve together with this team! It has been a long, full day and I am spent in a good way. I am up writing this blogpost because I am having some back pain and can't sleep well. I played some volleyball and am feeling it. For those of you who have seen my play sports, you probably know that I'm not very good at "taking it easy." I dove for the ball several times and am paying for it now. Hopefully this ibuprophen will kick in soon and I will get some sleep. Good night!