Habari ya Canadian famalia na rafikis yangu (How is my Canadian family and friends)?! Pole sana (very sorry) for not updating this for a while. I have had an incredibly exciting week, and God has done some amazing things! Where to start where to start. Sorry in advance as this is going to be very long. So after a couple of weeks, our team was starting to get discouraged, because we could see that we were helping physically (on the church), but we didn't feel like we were getting anywhere spiritually with others. One day we decided to go back to the worksite in the afternoon to talk about God with our fundis (workers). They were so busy that we were not able to talk with them, but we invited some workers from the site next to us to come and talk with us. We had some incredible translators with us, and to make a long story short, two of them became Christians! One was for the first time (Damian), and the other one (Joel) rededicated his life. Joel told us that he turned away from God because his wife wasn't a Christian, and it was hard for him to keep his faith. They were so excited, and the next day, they brought us to their homes to visit and share Christ with the families. God did an amazing thing, in that Joel's wife (Stella) was able to come to Christ!! Wow, it was so overwhelming. Now both Damian and Joel come by our site when they are on their work break, just to help us out with the building of the Church. Last Compassion Day (saturday), my good friend Emmanuel, who is 18, accepted Christ as well as his cousin Mariam! I have been praying for Ema for a while. He told me that he wasn't ready to become a Christian before, because he didn't want to keep sinning after he accepts Christ as his Saviour. I told him that it's human nature to sin, but that when Christ died for us on the Cross, all of our sins that we've done and that we will do was washed clean, as long as we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9). I have noticed a huge change in his attitude and the way he acts. Bwana Yesu Asifiwe (Praise the Lord Jesus)!! God was absolutely incredible this past week, that's all I can say. On monday and tuesday, we went on a safari! It was so much fun. On monday we went to Lake Manyara, just on the edge of the Rift Valley. We saw tons of giraffes, elephants, impalas and hippos, but my favourite was at the end of the trip. We were on our way to leave the park, when we saw a male and female lion lying in a tree right above the road! He was so close to us...I poked my head out the window for pictures, then I realized he could probably just drop on to me....so I stayed in the vehicle, because I realized he's probably a bit more aggressive than the animals that we have in Medicine Hat.....deer, poodles, house-cats, cows, mag-pies....ahh I miss that place. On tuesday we went to Ngorongoro Crater, which is the 8th wonder of the world I believe. The view was absolutely amazing, because we travelled to the top of the Rift Valley. We saw plenty of zebras, wildabeest, hippos, buffaloes, gazelles and some elephants. We also saw 12 lions altogether in the crater! We were able to see a couple lions mate....good thing Dad gave me "the talk" already, cause that was interesting. I'm not going to lie, I was laughing the whole time. Our guide told us that they mate every 15 minutes for 5 days. So like any normal people, we sat there and timed it until they mated again. I kid you not, it was EXACTLY 15 minutes! Oh my goodness, so hilarious. Anyways, God has blessed us. Pray that this last week in Arusha will go well, and that God will open doors for us to share with others. I probably won't update again until I am back in Nairobi in about a week. I love Tanzania, and can picture myself coming back, but it'll be nice to be back in Canada soon! I love you all.
The Church we were building
A great start to our safari, wait, what is that?!
Ready for a prayer service in the Church we were building.
