Muraho, Mwaramuse! (hello and good morning in Kinyrwanda)
I am here safe and sound! I have been here for 4 days now. And it is everything I hoped and prayed for. I LOVE IT!!!! It will definitely get me out of my comfort zone, we have absolutely no running water! So no showers, no toilets, no washing my clothes, no sinks, no hot water, nothing! Haha. For showers we can to fill up a bucket from the cold well water and take a cup and splash it over your body. (that i'm still getting used to! Tehe.) For toilets we have to go in a hole in the ground. For washing clothes, everything is by hand, and then you hang it up on a clothes line to dry. For food, oh boy. So every morning we have bread. Just bread. Plain white bread. For lunch, we have rice and beans. And for dinner we have rice, beans, and potatoes. Every day!! lol. It's all starch!! So it's hard on my stomach just cause my body is no used to it. But we get a lot of it, so i'm not going hungry. No meat! That is hard, we get meat only on tuesday lunches, so that's a little difficult. And when I say meat I mean like they put a little hamburger meat in the rice. Haha. But these people are so thankful for it! It's amazing. The team is AWESOME! I love everyone so much. We have a lot bigger of a team than I expected, we have 19 people! Woot woot! There's 9 Rwandans, 2 Congolese, 3 Canadians, 1 costa Rican, 2 Burundians, 1 Ugandan, and then me, the only American. So it's a very diverse group, which I absolutely love! We get along really well, we're all SO different but it's really neat. The teaching is CRAZZYYY GOOD! This week we are talking about the character and nature of God and our teacher is radical, passionate, and a woman of the Lord. I can not wait to see what God has in store for me. Next time I get on i'll tell more about the teachings. Well it is time to go take my cold morning bucket shower!! haha. It's 5:30 am right now, we have to get up real early! But I will try and get on again soon and share more. Have a great rest of the day!
Much love,
Lindsey Dawn
Things sound amazing over there Lindsey, hope that you stay safe and healthy. You are deeply missed over here stateside.
ReplyDeletei love your attitude!
ReplyDeletei love that you are the ONLY american too!
i don't think your mom is fond of the diet plan they have you all on...but i pray that Jesus would continue to nourish BOTH your soul AND body!
i love you Lindsey Burke!
-=Val
Thanks for the updates. I look forward to reading them. Hold on tight to Jesus; it's going to be a fun ride!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds sooo sick!! By the time we go to Europe together you will have no trouble roughing it. I saw your mom at church this Sunday and she told me all this even before i saw your blog. She and your dad met my parents and i talked to your mom a little about our plans for europe. So basically i am so happy to hear from you and i miss you so much. i am so excited for you and ....go have the best sememster of your life girl!
ReplyDeletelove,
jordan