A bike for a boy in the bush.

This morning was pretty great. Katie and I had planned to go to church with Abraham, and we were meeting at 7:45. So, we walk out of our room at 7:50 to find Abraham in his pajamas, sweeping. He still needed to shower and get dressed. So typical.

Church was cool – we were VERY late, so we only caught the tail end of the service, but that was enough for me. We said the Lord’s Prayer and got to sing and do the offering with them, and we got a feel for the environment. It actually really wasn’t that different from church at home. Same basic concepts, just in a different language and with a lot more drumming…;)

Members of the church leaving after the service. Don't you just love their clothes?

After church, we decided to take Ronald the bike we got him yesterday. So, Abraham, Katie and I headed into the bush to give Ronald his gift. On the way, Abraham asked us, “Where do you keep your goats in America?” We could not stop giggling all day about that. How do you even begin to answer that question? I won’t say more about if Ronald liked his bike…see for yourself:

Look at that smile. Priceless.

Katie and I and the whole Mensah family.

After visiting Ronald, we headed to the orphanage. It ended up being kind of crazy, because one of the girls, Rita, had a really high fever. We were worried she may have Malaria, because she is so hot and her head was hurting her so badly that she was screaming and crying. But, the clinic wasn’t open since it was Sunday. We just had to give her some Malaria meds they had at the orphanage, and if her fever isn’t down by tomorrow, we’ll take her in. It’s a scary scary thing to be sick here.

At lunch today, we all had Red Red (beans). We found FOUR ROCKS in our food. Seriously! And the crazy part? We just spit them out and continued eating. It took over 2 hours to get our food, and we were so starving at that point it didn’t matter.

One of the rocks we found in our lunch. Look how big it is!!

After lunch, it was back to the orphanage. I promised Kafui we could call her brothers and sisters today (for those of you who don’t know, Kafui’s younger 2 brothers and sister are now living in Dallas with their new family — they were adopted in August), so it was CHAOS trying to get them quiet enough so she could hear them on the phone. She was so excited to talk to them, she kept saying for the rest of the day how relieved she felt to know they were happy. It was so sweet.

Kafui, me and Deborah in their dresses that Sister Tova gave them. They are so gorgeous.

We walked back into town for some bead shopping. This bead shop is hilarious. The women are all loud and fat and they can’t speak much English, so I bet watching us interact with each other is a show. We asked 2 different people to take our picture with her, and it took 4 shots to even get us in the shot. They were all hootin’ and hollerin’ and moving all around. It was so dang funny.

Katie and I with the bead woman.

We are on a brief break for dinner before heading back to the orphanage to say good night. It will probably be an early night, because they start school tomorrow!

Much love to everyone. We miss you guys!! (and good food)

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