November 29, 2012

Mzungu Jewelry and Seya

We started off the morning with a beautiful run down to the local cathedral.  I can't get over how green and lush it is here. Today at Musana Christine taught me how to make the basket weave earrings to see if they could make it a tourist attraction to come make jewelry with the women.  It was super fun.  I asked Tina if she'd hire me as the first Mzungu artist and she said of course.
We also taught about square-foot gardening.  We are hoping to plant a small garden at Musana on Monday so we can get more vegetables into the women's diets.  Some of them don't have any land where they live and those that do are worried about animals and thieves taking their vegetables.  Hopefully the Musana one works out.
This evening we traveled out to Seya to see Pastor Josiah and his wife Annette.  What a sweet, sweet family.  It was about a 20 minute bodaboda ride out to Seya through beautiful green sugar cane and rolling hills.  You could see for miles.  We had a great gospel discussion with Pastor and his wife.  They are so open to learning truth.  We basically taught the first lesson and also read the family proclamation with them.  Their 3 beautiful children were there as well. I just wanted to eat them up.  Here's a little taste of cute Jeremiah. He just started doing this and we asked his mom what he was doing.  She said he was dancing like Lane.
And his adorable sister Deborah teaching him English
It was pretty dark when we were leaving so Pastor took us back on his bodaboda.  It was such a beautiful night with frogs croaking and a cool breeze.  We ended the night by visiting a couple of the Musana women at their homes just down the street.  Many of them live in one room homes with up to 7 or 8 people crammed in.

1 comment:

Ali said...

So glad you're having such an amazing experience!