Traveling, Making ugali & Having a great time

I know it's been awhile since I have updated my blog, but there hasn't been much free time. Everything is going very well, some days feel like months and some months feel like days. The DTS is half way over, which is crazy! There are only 4 more weeks of lectures and then we will be heading to Mwanza for outreach. 

Mwanza is a 12 hour bus ride from Arusha. Our DTS will be splitting up into 2 or 3 groups and be ministering to the people there for 5 weeks. We are all really looking forward to seeing lake victoria.

This week one of the staff here on the base is getting married in Kenya. It is tradition for the girls to have what they call a 'Kitchen party' where only woman come, no men. So for this party the bride chooses a canga (a piece of fabric) and all the girls who are going to the kitchen party all have to wear this fabric, you can just wear it as a wrap skirt or some woman had dresses made out of it. Needless to say every single lady there was matching, including me. None of the westerners knew what we would be doing at this party, the only thing we knew was that it had to do with a kitchen somehow. 

When we got there, it wasn't in a kitchen which threw us off; instead there was veggies, fruit, bowls, spoons, and a bed. Soon we were learning about how to care for your husband. That you always need to make him tea in the morning, make the bed, and YOU bring him water to bath with, if you don't he will probably leave you. Then comes the... uncomfortable part of the party. They taught us, code word "Make Ugali." Meaning that they were teaching us how to make love to your husband... yes... EVERYTHING! They explained using bowls and spoons. All of us were in total shock, I felt bad for the poor girl translating for us english speakers. Probably my weirdest experience in Africa yet. 

This is one of our speakers from Uganda, he spoke for 2 weeks in the first month. 

Some of you might have heard that I scooped up a little orphan puppy. This is Nala, she was sitting on the steps of the office on the YWAM base. She could hardly walk when I got her, now she runs all over the place and is super playful. After keeping her in the dorms for a couple weeks she finally got kicked out because it turns out most africans hate dogs. So now she is living with Baba Choi who is a Koren and is the pioneer of this base, and many others. He lives on the base so we all get to visit her often.  

These are my families amazing sponsor girls, who are more like sisters to me now. Tumaini on the left lives in the Tumaini home (Tumaini means hope, so yes it is also the name of the children's home) Irene on the right lives near by the base and is a part of the Tumaini ministry although she isn't living in the home. They are both precious.

It has been raining here for almost 2 weeks solid! I love it, especially because since it has been raining there has been running water which is AMAZING! Such a blessing.

Time is flying by... and God has done some amazing things. Please keep praying for me :)