The long-awaited for day is here, and we made it! Our new
MCC Eastern Congo Program Coordinators are on the ground, so we aren’t alone anymore. We have a busy week ahead of introducing them to eastern Congo, MCC
partners, and Seeders.
Mark is just back from a week in Burundi, where he attended
a class at Great Lakes Peacebuilding Institute. It was actually a really hard
week for him, as he felt very lonely and isolated, and the class wasn’t what he
was hoping it would be. We’re both so glad to be together again.
I had a cold last week, so I worked, did homework, and
slept. And hosted a visitor a little bit, but I was a pretty lame host. We set
up a new apartment for Seeders based in Bukavu; it was like moving – SO MUCH
WORK! But I think everyone is pretty happy now. We also had a crazy hail storm
here! I’m trying to upload a video to share.
Our wonderful pastor Nicolas is visiting the US and got to
spend time with Mark’s family in Austin. It’s so special to us that our family
got to taste our life a little bit of our life by hanging out with Nicolas. It
kinda makes me more homesick but mostly just makes us really happy. Nicolas and
our church are two of the best parts of life here.
Let’s see…we played Frisbee yesterday, and that was fun,
except that we play right by a soccer field that doesn’t have nets in the goal.
I had just thrown a really nice score and saw the receiver catch the Frisbee then
got hit SO HARD by a soccer ball in the side of the face. I almost fell down,
but Mark caught me. It was so romantic! ;)
We’ve both been overthinking lots of things, but I’m just
going to close this post with simple reports of what we’ve been doing, with
some pictures. Enjoy.
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| Mark playing the drum at church |
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| Another picture of our beautiful Lake Kivu |
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