Relief is On the Way
Please pray for Roger’s organ at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.
I was finally able to call David this morning. Unfortunately, it was 12:45 his time and my call woke him up. He had various family news that gave a good start to my day.
The team felt better about our teaching today. We made some adjustments in planning and presentation based on Monday’s experience. We had a few students that did not come back and a few who came for the first time. My group was having fun learning. Our focus was on health and we were learning the names of body parts, i.e., hand, eye, ear, leg, etc. Our Bible story was about a man who was deaf and blind then was healed by Jesus. One of the things we did was teach idioms related to the topic. Abigail and I asked them to share some of their idioms from the Slovak language. We had some favorites: “stupid as shoes”, “healthy as sugar beets” for someone who is a health fanatic, “trying to push Lutherans to heaven” for a person who is being really pushy, “a stone fell from my heart” like “a weight off my shoulders”.
We shortened our teaching day by an hour so we are now teaching 9:00-4:00. Today we had Bible study at 6:30p.m. so we went to a restaurant right by the church. The food was excellent, service good, price a little more, but reasonable, and they had Wi Fi and air conditioning!
The big event of the day was a surprise from Scott and Lisa. They bought a fan for each of our hotel rooms. Temperatures have been in the 90’s and even up to a 100 F with no air conditioning. Whew! We will all sleep better tonight.
The team has a very positive spirit and is enjoying working with the children and youth here. We are having a really good experience with our partner church.