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hello everyone i am so excited to be given the chance to update while on outreach!
I am currently in Livingstone Zambia and this will be the farthest north i will be going in Africa. As a team we decided God was leading us to stay here in Zambia and Zimbabwe and we will finsih the next 5 weeks in these locations and then 1 week to travel back to Worcester SA and then one week of debreifing and then im coming home! Today was a really good day we went to a local church and i gave a 10 minute speach in front of the church! Each of us must share our testimony or speak in front of the crowds at least once and today was my oppertunity. I considered it a challange however because I love speaking in front of youth but not so much adults however they were very kind to me and appreciated my words of encouragement. Then we went back and did some more work with the youth and did dramas and prayer etc. The weather here is strange it is really hott but overcast and rains heavily everyday with flooding and lightning there is also power outages every night at the base we are staying at. I am getting somewhat accustom to the African culture however of cold showers (if your lucky enough to have running water that is) walking barefoot often and buying in Kwacha and rand and zim dollar however it is quite confusing because both Zambian Kwacha and Zim dollar is thousands and millions so for example the sim card for my phone is 5,000 kwacha that is the equilvelant of about $1.50. I did go to a traditional Zambian restraunt the other night which was fun and i tried fried caterpillar and they also sold warthog and lots of leaves and stuff. I really like Africa though the people are very kind and welcoming and they really have that whole hospitality thing down. Im getting used to washing laundry,dishes,fruits and myself in dirty water too it's still a bit strange though and now i understand why Africa has this distinct smell about it. There are mango trees everywhere here and it is quite fun to walk down the street and pick 5 and bring them home and eat them. they are so yummy.... We are trying to figure out exactly what we will be doing here but we are pretty sure that we are going to go stay in a Zambian vilage for a while and then venture into Zimbabwe and set up some type of food program for the children there because there is no food anywhere. It is so stange to walk into a grocery store and see empty shelves. There is also no fuel there so everyone walks long distnaces to get anywhere and yes you do see lots of woman carrying huge loads on their head with bags in both hands and a baby strapped on their back. Man do they have it rough. I have seen lots of really cool animals here too including warthogs, antelope, lots of monkeys (video coming soon) baboons ostrichs and lots and lots of donkeys. Im still waiting to see elephant and Zebra we did see a few elephant crossing signs but we werent so lucky. I am not going to be able to update often though so I apologize now but i hope this update is finding everyone well i miss you all alot love you!