More Hasty Tasty

It was a big day of breakfast for the Shepherd of the Valley group, kitchen full of dishes from last night and this morning, baking cinnamon rolls, picking up Msigwa for a trip to the village, stopping downtown for soda, painting and food supplies for supper with Petro tomorrow night, picking up Reid's Masai carving, a packing party and a one shoe and one shoe off trip through Iringa following this foot stop at Hasty Tasty.  Our feet look better with Henna.

Tomorrow we worship at Ilula not Cathedral as first expected.  Monday the three of us will take the bus - Surly to Dar also a change of plans, where one of Dennis drivers will pick us up.  We hope to make it Slip Way for supper before Jenna and Hannah board the plane.  Julie will spend the night at FPCT with the group from Christus Victor and travel with them back to Iringa on Tuesday.

We are all doing well and plan a trip to Sai Villa for supper with Greg from Thrivent.

Shopping at the Massai Shop in Iringa

Sam here it is!  See it and weep!

Jenna and Hannah

are

coming home

to Graduate with A's

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St Olaf and Concordia!

Go

ELCA Colleges!

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Community

Tonight Jenna, Hannah, Julie and Greg from Thrivent entertained 17 including Msigwa and his family and Shepherd of the Valley folks who arrived yesterday.  In the first picture Msigwa is telling a story about the young man living with him because he was walking 15KM to and from school everyday, late!  In the second picture Pastor Randy from SOTV is playing guitar with Msigwa's son.  It was a pasta night and so wonderful to be together.  On Sunday night we will enjoy time with Petro, the head cook at TLC and his family.  I think we will laugh alot.  If you know Petro you will agree.

Dispensary at Lulanzi

Today Pastor Julie went back to Lulanzi with the General Secretary of DIRA, Doctor Saga and Msigwa who is the DIRA side of BKB.  They wanted to see how things were coming along.  They are pleased with what they saw even though there is a small problem that will be solved easily.

It took only 45 minutes to get there as I was not in a bus or driving myself. I  have always thought that Lulanzi while 40 KM from Iringa was at least an hour and 15 minutes from town.

Sad Good-bye

In this picture:  Juma (bus driver), Paul, Terry, Reid, Emson (former pastor of Lulanzi), Nora, Hannah, Jenna, Petro (cook at The Lutheran Centre) and Sam.

Most of our group left Monday morning for Dar.  It was a sad and tearful goodbye.  We lived well together processing each day, sharing our thoughts and feelings about what we are seeing and experiencing and caring for one another.  Our down time we decided was only when we were sleeping.  Not bad for a group that is introverted.

Jenna, Hannah and Pastor Julie remained behind and all day expected everyone to appear again.  Instead a phone call let us know that they had found their way to Dar safely and that they were having a great meal at Sea Cliff on the Indian Ocean.

It is much more quiet now at apt 3.  Hannah and Jenna have done some shopping and spending time at Neema.  Pastor Julie has had two full days of catch up work in the office.  A bank run, a meeting at DIRA the head office for the Diocese of the ELCT, looking at all the work that piled up and sorting it with Msigwa and a trip to Lulanzi to look at the dispensary.

Soon the group will land in Minneapolis.  We miss you but know that we will remain in each others hearts changed "some how" by our common experience in this beautiful country called Africa.