At lunch I had my first Ugali and jack fruit. The jack fruit is big and green on the outside, but yellow on the inside. It is sticky! You peel a lot away and eat tiny pieces. It takes a lot of icky work and tastes like ripe bananas.    I didn't care for the Ugali at first, but I love it now! The Ugali is that white stuff with the knife stuck in the middle.  It is made out of maze, potatoes, or rice. Most people eat it with their fingers and dip it in beans or tomato soup sauce.

I didn't really like papaya before, but I like it now. I didn't like ripe bananas either, but Idon't mind the short bananas ripe.

Memere took me to the Duka (store) to get gas for our generator. The store is very small but it has everything. It is like a Walmart in one aisle.

Our first meeting was interesting. Our hall was packed. There was a little bit of space at the back. People came and left and Papere only did one page of his three page sermon. I took care of Emily and Twalisa during Antionette's health talk so I didn't hear her. I played a song on the keyboard but the keyboard didn't work very well, or just wasn't as good as a piano. The Jesus video atracted everyone's attention. They like the pictures of themselves at the beginning of the meeting, too.

The next day we prayed and talked about how we could improve the meetings and we decided to set up earlier and set it up at the back of room to allow more people to come in. That night we were more organized and ready. We were not getting very many adults but tons of kids.

On the last night Memere and I went early to arrange the desks. The kids all followed, of course, so we had to chase them out so we could work. But they don't obey very well so two minutes later they were coming back in. We finally finished and left for a bit and soon it was time for the meeting to start. When we got back there were scores of kids we sent them all out and finished setting up. There were so many people and we didn't know why. It was still awhile until our meeting. We prayed together and then Barrasa, Miriam's husband, the Bible worker, led them in singing. Antionette, Uncle Jason and Papere had a hard time talking over the crowd. We were all praying, though and it was kept pretty well under control. The part of the video shown that night was on Jesus dying on the cross. The children were all crying.

 We bought some things for an orphan family and their grandmother. We bought soap, pencils, pens, oil, paper. school books, toothpaste, salt and toothbrushes from the dentistry and I gave each child a ball. We gave one of the little girls clothes. We took a walk through the village to their house to see what they needed most. They gave us plums.

This a picture of the girl with plums. There are six children that this grandmother is taking care of.

Lots of children come to Memere's house. Usually they come just to hang out. Sometimes I have taken my bouncy balls and let them play with them. They can play very well with them. While bouncing the ball they twirl their leg around it. I was very impressed so I decided to practice it a bit every day. I have gotten better at it but not near as good as they are.

I went to the nursery school on Wednesday. I helped them make toilet paper roll cats  and we said our ABC's !

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