Another Day

Hey everyone, things are good here, school hasn't really started yet, there is about 3 more weeks till the college campus is open to students. Outside of that we have been able to go in to the down town markets. There is not a lot to do till school starts but, there are and have been chances to share the Gospel and at the most our story. Oh and a lot of prayer walking. Its cool, the reason school hasnt reall started is because it was pushed back a few weeks, things don't all ways go accourding to plan here. Its cool though. Right now at the campus there are a lot of American students. Who would have known, but it is what it is. However when school startes there will be thousands and thousands of students. Isaac is a church leader / recent graduate and he will be helping us around campus, but it's more like we are on our own, which is cool but sometimes it can be intimitating. They play a lot of football, well, we call it soccor and ultimate frizbee is huge here too. Anyways we are have a really hard time getting the pictures up so bare with us and well try to figure it out or something. To kind of let you all have a mental image of Tanzania I'll try and discribe it. If you talk to sheets of paper and on one wright modern culture and the on the other wright 3rd word and you take those two pieces of paper and crinckle them together you'll get Tanziania. Its crazy, the have a lot of modern things that even some Tanizanians can afford, but then agian they have a lot of what we would consider poverty locations. Yet the live life to the fullest. Its pretty cool the, The Tanzanian flag is Blue, Green, Yellow, and Black. The black strip is for the color of the people. The blue is for the oceans, green for tropical enviroment, and yellow is for the wealth of the country. They make the statement that there is no RED on the flag, even though Red is an African color, because Tanzania is a Pieceful country, and red stands for violence. I would have to say that Tanzania is a non-violent country VERY PIECEFUL. Anyways I'll try to get pictures upload this week, no promises and I'll give you a heads up of how the ministry his going.

Home

Okay well, for the last couple weeks it has been mainly orientation for our field assignment. We are at our humble home. Its been a long road so far but we are staying at a Baptist House. It is huge about 5 minutes from the US embassy. Oh and how cool we have a 24-7 guard. I should have pics up soon and everything. The internet is slow but whatever, and some times the power just goes out. Joel and I are recovering from amoebas. We both got pretty sick just after we moved in. 4 hands on members have attracted amoebas they think it was from the food in the compound where we had the orientation. 

Ya we have learned a lot from the past couple weeks, mainly culture stuff and storying. Africans seem to like storying. Its a real simple concept. You just tell them the stories out of the Bible. Its crazy how they are just so willing to listen. We have a lot of Muslim here but it mainly "my daddy was a Muslim so therefor I am to" and that also seems to be true for christians here to. The have to names for christian and that is Christian- which is a person is is a Christian by family and not faith. Then there is "born again" which means the except Him "Christ" and they are Christ followers. Its strange but we even have that in the states, more or less the idea and not the saying. But anyways, all is good. It is cool how easy it is to share the Gospel here but the one bad issue is which I kind of saw before coming here is Im WHITE and white people have money. Where i live there are more white people but still the Tanzanians want my money. lol. In one day in the city we had like 3 to 4 people ask us to buy them stuff. One guy had a a business outfit on with nice shoes and a nice phone. He talked with us, mainly Joel, for about 30 mins. Then he wanted us to buy him lunch. I should have asked him to buy us lunch. We just said no. It is definitely different here but nothing dangerous, however if your not smart you will get taken advantage of. Anyways it is late Ill will try to keep everyone updated soon. Love you all.