Afternoons in Mundri

When we are in Mundri we have lunch around 1:30 or 2 PM which is cooked for us at the church compound. Since we are still in the process of moving to our permanent housing, we do not have internet at our current compound. We often bike over to MRDA (Mundri Relief and Development Association) to use their internet, mostly just to download and send emails or post on our blogs.

Since Ian returned to the US last week, there are currently 6 adults on the team. We each have a night to cook dinner for the team and then one night a week we go out to dinner at a local Arabic restaurant. Then those that did not cook participate in the clean up and dishes for the night. It has been great as a new team just getting to know each other to have dinner together every night.

In the afternoons we take the clothes that were washed that day off the line put each person’s clothes in their cubby in the main house so that everyone’s clothes get back to the tukul or tent. Emelia is the wonderful woman who does our laundry and the morning dishes on the weekdays. After dinner we often continue our conversations, play a game, watch a movie, sing worship songs together, read something aloud together, or have individual time to ourselves.
On Sunday, we go to church at the Episcopal Church. There is a shorter and smaller English language service that we attend before the Moru service which follows. Once a month the services join on the week that communion is served. Michael will be preaching at the English language service for the next few weekends doing a sermon series on the Lord's Prayer, which we are also studying during our team meetings on Wednesday afternoons. At night if Larissa and I are going to sleep at the same time, we pray together, which is a wonderful way to end our days especially during the time when we were both sick. (We are both feeling much better now, praise God!)

I hope these last three posts give you all an idea of what my days a like here in Mundri. I am learning a lot and growing in my dependence on God. I hope this gives you a picture of everyday life in Mundri.