Church, Escarpment, and Fish

 Here it is, Tuesday and I need to do some catch up here before we leave and I don’t have any service for a while. 

Sunday we left for church about 8:30. It’s a mystery to me how people ever else. Their way around these roads, paths, and walkways. It doesn’t appear to have any rhyme or reason to me! But dad turns here and there and bumps and bangs around and gets to where he wants to go. We picked up two other ladies in route to church. One older lady and one paralysed lady. Martha, the paralysed one has the cutest little baby girl ever. 

After sitting on backless benches for a couple hours, this soft American was ready to stand up or find a chair! Was neat to meet folks’ church family. Right after the service, we sat down with a 16 or 17 year old boy and read through the next doctrine study lesson. Came home to a late lunch. And then it was time for a nap. Thank goodness for cool bedrooms at least. Wimps that we are! About 4:30 we headed over to eat supper with Ben and his family. His two girls made us some really good rice balls and ground nut soup. The dish that appeared for “after you eat” was something I was dreading. Dried fish made into a soup… the taste wasn’t so horrid but the smell….whew! I just quick ate a few bites, then called it quits. We had a super enjoyable evening there singing and sitting around in the courtyard. 

Monday we left the house around 10 or after. Headed over to the escarpment. It’s a big jump in elevation about 45 minutes from here. K gotta run. More later. 

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