Friday, May 08, 2009

Where did the last 2 weeks go?

We have begun another entrepreneur class with 5 people attending not as many as we would have liked but the percent of entrepreneurs here is about 3%. There are a lot of people that think they want to be their own boss, but they soon realize they don’t like all the hard work that goes along with it. We will have 3 more days next week and that will complete the class.
We also had to take our car in for service, which seems like a monthly event lately, and they were going to charge us R6000.00 to fix it. Mike asked the guy is there any way this can be fixed without having to order a whole new shifter and the mechanic said “no”. Well we sometimes don’t like to take no for an answer, so we prayed about where we could take the car and we have a friend that recommended someone. We called him, took the car over to his house and he fixed it in a couple of hours for R400.00. We obviously won’t be taking our car back to the dealership for service as we realized last month we probably got ripped off for R4900.00. It always pays to have a second opinion but being in another part of the world you have to be careful.
We completed our 1st home cell group (Bible Study) course last week and had a celebration dinner for everyone last night. Mike made homemade potato soup and I made the main course, heavenly hamburger. We set everything out and had bread and soup for starter, then salad and casserole for main course and doughnuts for pudding (dessert). They were all talking in Shona, their native language, and we could tell they were talking about the food. Mike said to them, hey, we have an agreement that you all are going to speak English so we can understand what you are saying, so they told us what they were saying. One of the guys said, “I have never had this much food in one meal. I might get some bread in the morning and a small dish for lunch and then something small for dinner, but never have I had this much at one time! He then proceeded to ask, is eating this much a sin? We explained the difference and told him he was ok to be able to eat all of his meal at once. They loved every bit of it. We have really been blessed to be able to give them food and provide a meal for 13 of them. Thank you for supporting us so that we can give to others!
I completed my last presentation for the Life Skill Educators today in Ocean view and it is such a delight to be able to teach them the proper ways of brushing and flossing so they can teach the children that they reach each week. Next week is hygiene week for them and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Please pray for me to be able to secure some products from the Colgate representative so we will have items that we can give to the very poor and needy folks in the communities.

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