Our Journey Thus Far: March 9th

So we were going to sleep in this morning and not go to the service but some guy from the church showed up to take us shopping, we had talked about going but then we thought that we weren't going to.  So anyways we rushed around and off we went.  First we had to get our money exchanged, that was an interesting experience in itself.  We drove up to this store, which really wasn't much of a store.  All the "stores" here are like storage sheds all set beside together.  So they are very tiny.  Well we went there and we gave the guy who was driving us,  the money we wanted to exchange so he took it in.  He had to barter to get an exchange price, which we thought was strange.  So after some other person from church came and picked up Dad to take him to meet Pastor Robinson so they could go to the hospital to pray for a lady who had cancer.  Which they ended up not going to anyways because it was going to take to long to drive there in traffic.  The guy who was driving Mom, Nat and I asked what we wanted to buy and we said maybe some African jewelry.  So we drove around for a while looking for a place that sold jewelry.  Some of the places were kind of scary that we drove through I would have been afraid to get out.  We drove around downtown for a while which wasn't too bad, we saw the Hilton hotel which is one of the very few things they have that is American.  If we weren't staying here at the Missionary compound we would stay there.  But, we are much safer here.  It's weird there are no fast food restaurants here not even downtown.  We figured they might have a McDonald's but they don't.  They have places that are equivalent to fast food in America, but I wouldn't really say they are too equivalent.  They look kinda sketchy to me. haha  We finally ended up at the section where the Artisans sell their things.  As soon as we stepped out of the car people were yelling "Hi!" and "Come over here!"  We just stayed with the man who drove us, I really wish I knew his name! haha It was nice to have him because he did all the talking and bartering.  While we were in the downtown area we saw a lot of crippled people along the roads.  It was so sad.  Some were on little pieces of wood with little wheels moving around by pushing with their arms.  We also saw a man begging for money who had a huge growth covering half of his face.  It was awful.  You could only see one eye, half his nose, and half his mouth.  The evening service was good, like normal. Probably about 80 more people came to Jesus! Praise God! and Pastor Robinson's sister tried to teach Natalie and I how to dance like Africans.  Each tribe in Africa has a different dance and they were doing a bunch of them last night, it was so cool!   Almost everyone came to the front at the end for group deliverance, it went well and more people were set free! yay Praise God!  The services are supposed to end in the evening at 9:00 but we didn't get home till 11:30.  So we ate dinner after we got home. My family hasn't been eating a whole lot because the past few days for a few different reasons.  The one morning we had a meat, potato, and vegetable stew for breakfast and then they left it set out on the table all day long and they served it again for dinner.  Needless to say we didn't eat any of it.  They also have been eating a lot of this green shredded stuff that is cooked, they say it is like cooked spinach but I think it smells and looks like chopped alfafa. haha The pineapple is really good here, so we have been enjoying that.   One day we had peanut soup over rice, that was actually pretty good.  There has been a lot of rice in general, which has been good too.