Rachel's Reflections

(picture in another language) This is a cup .    (pause)    This is a cup .    (pause)    This is a cup .    (pause) This is a plate .     (pause)     This is a plate .    (pause)     This is a plate .     (pause) This is a fork .     (pause)    This is a fork .     (pause)     This is a fork .     (pause) Where is the plate ?   (everyone points) Where is the cup ? (everyone points) Where is the fork ? (everyone points) Rachel, where is the cup ? Ana, where is the plate ? Etc… A long-time AIM couple have come to do team training with us. The wife is teaching us various language learning techniques and the husband is giving team advice and ideas to help us thrive in our diversity. From 8:00 to 10:30 we meet as a team, then 10:30-12:30 our language helpers join us to do language activities to teach us Kimwani. In the afternoons, we go out in pairs to practice our new words/phrases in the Mwani community. It’s been great learning from this experie

My cistern was almost dry. I prayed for rain all week and told everyone I was praying for rain. God sent rain Thursday night and I sent a message to Mama R " God is answering my prayers! " The next day I asked her what she thought. She was confused about the message. I explained that I sent it because of the rain, reminding her what I had been praying for. We went to the local marketplace and while we were there it started raining again!  Mama R found a semi-dry place for us to stand and wait, thinking it would quickly stop. But it kept raining and raining. We were finally able to continue on when it let up. On the way back from our successful, but delayed, shopping adventure I was hungry and tired. I started praying: " Lord, I desire You more than food, more than _____, more than anything, and I desire Mama R to understand the plan of salvation, I desire to see her saved more than I want food right now. " Will you pray this prayer wit

Today is Children's Day in Mozambique.  Yesterday I had 105 kids in my yard to celebrate. :)  My team pulled together to make this a special day for the kids who usually don't have the resources to celebrate and we were able to use the spacious yard God has blessed me with. We had fun playing games, listening to a story that my teammate Ana told, and singing songs together. Hopefully this opens a door to more opportunities to share Bible lessons with the kids on a more regular basis.