August 4 My journaling is getting lazy, and that can only mean one thing- I’m settling in. We’re over a week in and I feel so at home. Given there are still many things different from home that I miss, but Lubumbashi has stolen a piece of my heart. While here we’ve visited so many places from villages to more […]

August 3 After a four hour longer church service, all I could say was that I was blown away. Sunday school started at 10, and Niko led a wonderful sermon about Job and his faithfulness to God. Throughout the sermon a few team members, as well as myself, shared their testimony. It was moving to see how God is always […]

August 2 Today was a day of rest. Literally, we got to take a break from work and do some sightseeing. While we made a stop at a market, we also happened to pass by a store selling jerseys of the local futbol team in Lubumbashi. Since the jerseys only came out to eight dollars, we ended up buying far […]

August 1 It’s the first time I’ve woken up late instead of an hour early. Yesterday was a long and wonderful day that made me very, very tired. All week we’ve asked for more work. The construction they gave us was easy peasy, and we all wanted to help as much as we could. So yesterday when they asked us […]

July 31 Today was my first day where I felt fully invested in what I was doing. My mind didn’t think back to Hawaii or the things I would be doing there. Today all of me felt in the Congo. We started our day with the usual eggs, noodle, and sausage breakfast that I’ve grown to love. Our activity for […]