Some photos from Tanzania...

Hello everyone! We're back from Tanzania now and I've just been sorting through all the photos. Here are some of my favourites!

Having a little look round outside in between the showers of rain

 

 You can see it had rained a LOT!

 

 And then it started to rain again...

 

 If you look hard you might spot the monkey outside...

 

 I loved watching everyone dancing at the conference

 

 In fact, I even joined in!

 

 Here are some of my friends, they enjoyed dancing too!

 

 Here's that centipede I told you about. He was HUGE! His feet are orange - mine are green..

 

 I was listening carefully while Pastor Iain was preaching.

 

 Just to show you I cleared my plate. While sheep prefer grass, I am a missionary sheep and so will try just about anything while I am away.

 

 Celebrating 75 years of the AOG in Tanzania

 

 I can't remember what was funny here, but we laughed a lot!!

 

 These children live at the orphanage we visited.

 

 This is where their water comes from.

 

 Angela gave them all balloons and sweeties

 

 They were very happy!

 

 We had lunch together too...

 

 Chilling with Iain and Norma in Zanzibar. This is the life!

 

Iain and Norma relaxing on the beach. The little boats in the background are called dhows.

This is the life!

We are now in Zanzibar having a couple of days to relax before we come home. Zanzibar is part of Tanzania but it is made up of islands. I like it here! We are staying in a lovely hotel and today I am writing my blog while I'm lying in a hammock beside the Indian Ocean which is a lovely turquoise shade.. Of course, Angela, Iain and Norma are relaxing too! They say thank you for praying. They had a great week last week and Angela and Norma (who weren't well) are both feeling better.

Moving on...

Yesterday was the last day of the Easter Convention - what a week we had! When we get back we will tell you about all the amazing things God has been doing.

We went to a friend's house for lunch after church yesterday. It was lots of fun because she has 14 children who live with her! They don't have mums or dads so it is really good they have someone to look after them and love them. Angela gave them all balloons and sweets so they were very happy! She took a photo of me with them too. We have lots of great photos and I will put some of them on my blog when we get back because I know you will like seeing them.

Today we are travelling again. We have a three hour car journey and a 2 hour sea crossing. I think I will catch up on some sleep during that journey so I can be ready for whatever is going to happen next!

Easter in Tanzania

We've had a really interesting Easter weekend here. When it was Good Friday a lot of the church donated blood to the blood transfusion service. That's what the people here like to do to remember how Jesus shed His blood on the cross for us.

Today we had a three hour celebration service because it is 75 years since the Assemblies of God came to Tanzania. It was great fun! There was lots of dancing and Norma did some great African dancing all around the church. I haven't seen her do that at church at home but I think it would be very good if she did. I joined in a bit too, I can throw a few shapes myself you know! The children sang for us too, that was lovely. They sang really well and everyone really enjoyed it.

My friend Angela hasn't been feeling too well the past few days. Please keep praying for her!

1...2...3... 99...100!!

We had a very busy day yesterday - Iain, Norma and Angela were speaking at four services, and the first one started at 7 am! We had to get up at 5 am and I could hardly get my eyes to open I was so tired! Imagine my surprise when I did finally wake up enough to look round the room and found we had a visitor! It was a HUGE centipede - Angela said it was at least 6 inches long and 1/2 inch wide (I checked on a ruler as I'm not very good with inches - that's about 15 cm long and 1 cm wide!!). I watched it for quite a long time because it was very interesting to see how it walked with 100 legs. I did try to count them to make sure that's how many it has but it didn't keep very still so I gave up.

It finally stopped raining. Norma and Angela said that was typical as they had just gone out and got some wellies! I didn't mind because there were no wellies small enough to fit me. I'm not sure if I would look very good in wellies anyway, even though it's not nice walking in mud all the time.

Monkeys!

Well, we finally got here at 2.30 am! What a journey we had but it was so good to arrive at last.. It was raining when we went to bed and still raining when we got up again. It almost felt like Scotland with all that rain! But we had a good sleep and a lovely breakfast. Of course, I had grass for breakfast, just like I always do, but it was still very tasty.

Eventually it stopped raining so we went outside for a walk round the grounds. It felt great to stretch our legs after all the time we spent on the aeroplane and in the car yesterday. And guess what! I saw some monkeys on the ground outside our rooms! I'm going outside to see if they want to play with me.. I'll write more later!

I'm in Tanzania!

We have just arrived in Tanzania. I am with Pastor Iain, Norma and Angela. As we are stuck in traffic I Dar es Salaam at the moment I thought I'd let you all know about our long and adventurous trip to get here!

Our flight from Dubai to Dar es Salaam was 3 hours late because another plane had skidded when it landed at Dar es Salaam airport. (I am very glad our plane didn't do that, it must have been scary!) We were diverted to Mombasa to refuel first. The first time our pilot tried to land at Dar es Salaam he had to abort because the fog was so bad, but he managed it ok the second time. We were very glad to finally be on the ground again!

But now we are stuck in traffic and it is raining so much the roads are flooded. We are all very tired and it will take at least another two hours to get to where we're going. We will all be glad to get there and find our beds!

Once I've had some beauty sleep I'll write more about what we are doing on this trip...