Visitor from America-Part 4

Saturday Bible Study, these kids all show up to play.

He took a great picture of good friends of ours.

He also got a good picture of our language helpers and their family. 

Visitor from America-part 5

On Sunday the guys went to Isanga Bay on Lake Tanganyika.  It is a little slice of paradise.

On Monday they hiked to Kalambo Falls.  A boat took them from the Isanga Bay to a village below the falls.

The village is in the middle of the picture right at the lake.

Hiking in gives you a better view of the whole falls at once.  When we drive to it we are right at the top of it.

A Visitor from America – part 3

He took a picture of this cool dude.

He checked out the baby broiler chicks.  They will be in our freezer soon!  Yum!

This is where our children play every Friday afternoon.

A Visitor from America – part 2

I had to break my post in to parts in order to post it.  Too many pictures.  So the driving tour for our friend continues.

Lake Chila:  All of Mbala’s water comes from here.

A trip to the Moto Moto Museum, which Mbala is famous for.

He say cows being milked at our friend’s house.

He milked a cow for the first time in his life.

A Visitor from America – part 1

At the very beginning of June we had a visitor from America come to visit us.  He is a friend of the lady who runs our missions guest house in Lusaka.  She planned this lovely trip for the two of them and then ended up not being able to come herself.  So, he was brave and boarded a bus to come visit us – people he had never met before.  Steve picked him up at the bus stop here in Mbala.

We took him on a driving tour of Mbala.

This is the old Market.

Maround Compound where Steve is working right not.

The school where Steve has his Bible studies on Saturdays.

Seth is now in the double digits!!

On Tuesday Seth turned 10!  On Monday night we had cake.  He decided against the chocolate cake with the peanut butter icing, for a coconut cake.  I went recipe hunting and we had coconut cake.  We had the cake on Monday night because we had a visitor with us. 

We had the Schaefer’s over for tea on Tuesday afternoon and finished the cake.  Seth wanted candles all over again.  So the second time we put a candle in every piece of cake to see if he had enough wind to blow them out.  He did!

Customer Service

About a week ago our electric bill came.  It indicated that we owed two months worth.  Steve got out his receipt  to check and yes we did pay that bill.  We even have a computer print out!

So, when Steve went to town to run errands he said he will be back in a few hours.  I had to ask why, what was going?  He said he would be waiting in line to get our bill straighten out.  Well, he was back much earlier than expected.  Why?

He forgot that there is no such thing as customer service in our Mbala office.  They also must not have a copier.  He came home to make copies of his receipt.  Then it was back to the Zesco office with the copies.  They have to fax them to Kasama where there is a customer service to take care of the problem.

We just keep practice the saying “This is Africa and Africa always wins!”  When you realize that and accept it you are less likely to get upset at the way things work here.

God bless,