thank you for your emails, they sure do make me excited to be on mission!
let's see, this week i was taken back to the time where dad owned that water park and we were there swimming. Remember when i asked mom if i could go to the bathroom and she told me to go in the pool? so i took off my bathing suit and went to the pool! the same type of thing happened in a lesson as the 1 1/2 year old daughter of one of our families, decided to take a potty break on the floor. not very many of the children here wear diapers and she definately wasn't! it made me chuckle to remember that. we paused the lesson and cleaned up the mess. it's funny to know that kids are the same everywhere.
our week was filled with sick people. we got the brilliant idea to go to the hospital and visit with the patients. it was nice (and sad sometimes) we were working in the surgery ward, there were a lot of patients preparing to go for surgery, some of them were really scared and it was nice to sit with them and comfort them before they went in. one of the women was one that we had met last week saturday at the local shopping mall, so it was nice to see her again, she invited us to her house for this week so we can teach her and her whole family :).
when we started our morning, we were put in the icu where we prayed for 3 patients, one 10 years old, another 13 years and then an old woman recovering from brain surgery. i don't like seeing sick people but it sure was nice to give them some comfort.
the sick people didn't end there, my companion is not well, and neither is the rest of botswana for some reason. almost all of our canceled appointments were because the people we were supposed to see were sick. a lot of the others that we saw were sick too. we spent a lot of time this week just comforting sick people.
ironically this transfer i have decided to work on charity, as a result i have been praying really hard for greater charity and i think this might be God's way of answering my prayers. He works in a mysterious way sometimes. i do feel myself having a greater capacity for compassion and love towards others. i am just sorry that i may be part of the reason so many people are sick these days!
the music thing... not sure how that is going. the man i am supposed to be teaching lives an hour and a half away and he doesn't quiet understand that we aren't allowed to go and see him, he thinks that we need to come and teach him there... we keep trying to explain to him that we can't leave our area and the president says no. we didn't see him yesterday. more details when the time comes. thank you for sending what you could. i hope we can work something out so we can see him. it would be really nice as well if you could send some rosin and an electric tuner/metronome. i am planning on giving it to him, turns out it is really hard to get things for a violin here. not really a common instrument that people play.
love you,
sister blum
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