Our day started off early at 8am for breakfast. Cindy had been talking about feeding the pigeons since we got here so opportunity is knocking . She buys the food and before she even opens the container they are all over her but, watching her she was talking to them as they are swarming her telling them to wait until she opens the container then she told them no you have to be nice and share. She was so happy and that’s really not a good description but it was so Cindy talking in her sweet voice gathering her flock. He face said it all.
Then we went to breakfast and as a group we are becoming more and more like the culture around us, we are engaging in conversation with each other, no cell phones out scrolling Facebook just truly wanting to know how we all are and if we are alright. God is working in us and I am so amazed and grateful for this team.
Next we are off to meet one of our partners.She takes us on a walking tour of I would the center. We learned about the history and went through 2 churches and walked through a market similar to a cross between a farmers market and a meat market. We talked to a few owners of the local stores and learned their stories.
Then it was time for lunch. She wanted us to experience a popular dish which I cannot remember the name and also cannot ask anyone because it’s 4 am and I’m in the dark typing this but it was sausage and bread with a cream sauce and onions. Petula said it’s not pita bread (she made it a point to tell us that) but it’s kind of similar.
Now we are off to a small cafe about 1 1/2 hours away to meet up with a couple she knows who is getting married Sunday and we are going to do a prayer walk. The drive over was amazing. We took a road that looked like a windy back road very narrow and curvy and one of our new partners was driving our car he is so funny and interactive with us it couldn’t have been better. The views were incredible the trees the colors and the way the light just opened up at just the right moments to show us the perfect picture of course it was only God that could do that.
When we got there we had coffee and talked before we took our walk. It was almost dark at this point but we all walked through a park and across a bridge and through the city. It was perfect.
Now it’s dinner( we seem to eat all the time) it was a very nice restaurant served family style and we talked and talked with each other for quite a long time probably a couple hours. We were all exhausted and still had a very long drive home.
Now the drive home in our car was pretty uneventful we were falling asleep but Caleb was doing his best to keep us up asking for prayer requests and playing car games with us. Now the other car is a story for someone else to tell the “rest of the story”.
