Hello Everyone!!
It’s so great to be back in Kijabe after a week out in the bush. A few fun things I have learned so far in Africa:
1. I have mastered the art of the squatie pottie. Yes, there is a technique, and I’m so thankful for all those years of camping as a child where I practiced the pop-and-squat method (I’d like to take a moment to thank my Mom and Dad)
2. Not everywhere in the world is as big on personal hygiene as America, and you pretty much learn to get over that fast. (Showers are like gold here)
3. TIA. Meaning This Is Africa. Only in America do we care a lot about time and being on time to places. One hour to get somewhere here could end up being three or four hours. This is Africa people 🙂
4. Not everywhere in the world has a civilized road system. People drive how they want, where they want, when they want. (be prepared for frequent flat tires and very bumpy dirt roads)
5. Lastly, I need to stop drinking water right before bed because it causes me to have to wake up at 3 a.m. every morning and have to run out of my tent and go to the bathroom as fast as I can because of my fear of the dark and the possibility of seeing a hyena on my little adventure.
Hope that gives you a small glance into our life in Africa so far 🙂
On a different note, I have had a lot of time this past week to read more of my book Crazy Love by Francis Chan (if you haven’t read it, you need to) and it is rocking my world! Let me tell you. It has really just made me wonder if I have been really missing the idea of Christ’s love. Loving Christ means loving others and in return loving God more and more every day. Some days I wonder if I truly am in love with Christ, or just assumed I was? I know I love Jesus or I would not be in Africa right now, but I think I have been missing that true, head over heels, crazy about you, love for Jesus. And I want it! (Francis Chan, you are the man.)
Part of the reason I realized this while we out with the Massai tribe doing hut to hut evangelism is because they were so willing to just accept Christ after talking to us for only a few minutes, and it was hard for me to understand at first. I don’t think I was letting myself believe it would be that easy. When I really thought about it though, why wouldn’t they want to believe something so great and powerful, when they have basically nothing else? Of course they would jump at the idea of God! In our small world of America, we get so distracted by all of our possessions and things we think are most important, that we often push Jesus to the side and forget He is the only way to true life. It was so easy for these people to just fall in love with Jesus because they hadn’t invested their love into billions of other pointless things. It was a great reminder that I live a very self-centered life at times, instead of Christ-centered. To be truly in love with God means to love him with everything you have, and hold nothing back.
Who wouldn’t want a love so powerful?
Well, that’s all for now. We’re off again tomorrow for another week with a different tribe. Goodbye showers, hello smelly people.
🙂 Sarah
p.s Josie, I always hear or see things that remind me of our jokes, and it is definitely not as funny to say them to everyone else as it is to you because no one understands. A.k.a anything involving Madagascar 2. I MISS YOU!
p.s #2: Sorry my emails have been lacking and very short to everyone. Internet has not been too solid but next week we should find time to get some quality internet. Talk to you all then 🙂
