Week 2

Hello IPHC followers! Rachel L. here! I'm going to tell you about our last few days here in beautiful Mozambique. On Monday, we got to do a dental health teaching for a bunch of kids. They all did really well practising and had loads of fun spitting toothpaste all over our front yard. :) We were able to give each of them a toothbrush and a mini toothpaste. All the rest of that day we had kids coming, wanting toothbrushes, so we are planning to do another dental health teaching soon. In the mean time, Sandra did an impromptu english lesson on the porch and learned some chiyao (the local dialect) as well.

On Tuesday, we went to visit our friend Elias and a group of elderly woman that he's been discipling and helping. Elias is an amazing guy and has done much to help his 11 ladies. He leads a team that is working to make sure they each have a clean matress, food, medication, etc. They've also raised the money to pay for 5 eye surgeries, removing cataracts. Okay, so anyway, we got to meet with them and sit in on their Bible study. We then got to go into the village, Mitava, and walk around seeing what we might be able to do there in the future.

Today, we did a trip to town where the students were charged with the duty of finding prices of common foods. So, we said lots of "bom dia's" and "como se chama este aqui em portuguese?'s" Those mean "hello" and "what is the name of this in portuguese?" :) Later in the afternoon, we got to hear the testimony of one of our translator's. His name is Elidio and he's got a pretty intense story, yet he's such a sweet and kind fellow. After his testimony, he came with us to the house of Frank and Sandra's night guard. His wife had a baby about two weeks ago and didn't think she was giving her baby enough milk. We were able to do a health teaching on breast feeding for her and several of her neighbors. It went really well, even though it rained on our heads and anything said needed to be translated twice: from english to portuguese to chiyao. We hope to go back there again and do more teaching and visiting.

Woo! What a day! What a week!! Thank you for reading and come back again soon! We love you and miss you and can't wait to show you all our pictures!! :) Be blessed!!