Hey yall! So today abunch our lady friends from the church showed up at our house this morning. It turns out they managed to cook up a little surprise for us...the ladies(widows) of the church had gotton together what little money they had and made shirts for each of us! They are made of beautiful, colorful, and giant patterns of African goodness! Each of the boys got a shirt, which oddly matched each of their personalities and Emily and I recieved matching shirts and shorts (cute? i think so). We sat in a circle as they expressed how unlike our group was compared to other groups they had seem come through Burundi. They said they were touched by our hearts and how we created relationships with the people here. Apparently that is rare and that broke my heart. Later that afternoon we went to the church for our first day of VBS. Since there are usually about 30-40 children at Sunday school (which is double than the usual due to the fact there are white people at the church) we were expecting a good 50-75 children because we figured they would tell their friends. Oh they told their friends all right....we lost count but came to the conclusion we had at least 120 children there!!! this was interesting considering there were only 7 leaders... :) We taught them the story of Jonah and the big fish. We taught them a few American songs such as "Ive got the joy, joy, joy" and "this little light of mine." They even sang a song for us at the end in Kirundi! We also gave our paper and colored pencils so that they could draw their own fish.I spend about the next 30 minutes awing at every fish picture that was thrust in front of me from a child desperately seeking a nod of approval. Which they all received. There was chaos. There was mahem. It was crazy. But we all agreed it couldnt have gone better! Tomorrow will beinteresting because it will be even longer and were supposed to be feeding them a meal. The numbers very well may double so please pray for the miracle of the sermon on...
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