final test

End then we came to the end of our outreach! Yesterday was the last time we went out and do health teaching in the villages. Today we have our final test and (if we pass that is) tomorrow we will have our graduation celebration. We have invited some of our local friends to join us at the restaurant for a good meal of chicken and chips. On saturday we will relax and do final shopping and then sunday morning we are heading for Malawi.

So what have we been up to lately? On sunday we went with one our Ywam collegues to Utemile. That is a nearby village where he has started a work and planted a small church amongst the muslim yao people. I (Frank) was asked to preach and together we had a wonderful time. We worshipped, we sang, we prayed and we preached and the Lord was with us that morning (isn't He always?). On monday we organised 'monday-school' (as in sunday school but then on monday)for our neighbourkids. We played a game, sang a song, read a story about Jesus calming the waves (all with yao translation from Elidio) and then we had a small party with drinks, popcorns and a lolly pop.

Tuesday we went first to Mitawa for the last time. We visited our grannies, we said goodbye to the nurse in the health post and left him with a sphygmomanometer (blood pressure thing)and a stethoscoop (he had to share one with the maternity ward). In the afternoon we went shopping (some stayed home because Karen, Jill and Rachel all have a acquired a cold and are sneezing and blowing their noses). Yesterday morning we went do a teaching at our local health post. We taught on malaria and fever and it was a good session. In the afternoon we went to Ntoto at the house of Elidio. He had gotten some good feedback on our last time when we teachend and treated for worms. So a big crowd came this time (over 80 adults and kids) to listen to our teaching on malaria and fever.
It was a really good time. When we took out the baby doll the whole audience got really excited. They never have seen a doll that is so life like so they all wanted to touch it. It was hilarous and with a lot of giggling. Karen and I also attended two elderly ladies with astmathic problems. We listened to them and gave some advice and we were allowed to pray with them. At night we played another game of Carcassone and Rachel won her first game of the outreach (she lost on phase 10 and settlers).

Please keep praying for us: for health (Judah is sick at the moment, Frank and Sandra both have infected toes and the rest suffers from a cold), for a safe journey and for new energy for the next thing that God has in store for us.

Love you all
Frank, Sandra, Judah, Karen, Rachel and Jill