New friends!

Hello everyone! Life here in Tanzania is still very busy for Pastor Iain and Norma with lots of preaching. Iain will be speaking for the next three days to everyone at the Bible College here at the Chapel Service. The course he was doing about the Holy Spirit is now finished and it went very well. Norma has also spoken many times at churches, the college and extra ladies' meetings, so she's not had much time to put her feet up either!

I am having a wonderful time making new friends with the Bible College students - I've had lots of photos taken with them! They are such great people and have exciting plans of what they are going to do to serve God when they leave the Bible College. Hopefully we'll be able to tell you about some of that when we get home.

We'll be travelling back to Morogoro on Sunday and then we start for home on Monday night. Please keep praying for us and for a safe and good journey home! I'll try to write more before then though..

A lovely rest!

Hello!

We're still having a wonderful time but we were very glad to get proper rest yesterday afternoon and evening! Pastor Iain and Norma went for a walk but it was too hot for a wooly little sheep so I stayed in and had a nap. Iain has already been teaching for 16 hours - wow! And the people here love to listen to him, they don't think 16 hours is all that long at all.. Iain and Norma went to speak at different churches yesterday - I didn't know who to go with because I like listening to them both! Norma is happy today because she is having a day off, no meetings to get ready for.

We met a girl who knew Katie's Mum, Maureen, 15 years ago when she came to Africa! That was a very long time ago - even though she was just a little girl when Maureen met her she's now been serving Pastor Iain and Norma their food at the Bible College. It was very exciting to meet her, and she was happy to get to know us too.

Speaking Swahili!

Hello again!

I'm having a lot of fun learning to speak Swahili - it's a great language! Mind you, it's just as well most of the people here speak English because I just couldn't get my tongue around the word for drink - mnywo - and I was REALLY thirsty! It's great that people here speak English, they think it's very important to learn our language. Not all of the children here get to go to school - I think some of the boys and girls in KFC wouldn't think that was too bad! But the children I have met here are really happy when they get the chance to go to school because they know how important it is to learn lots of things.

While I've been having all this fun and meeting people, Pastor Iain and Norma have been so busy. Norma did one of the sessions today in the Bible college and was more than ready for a nap after that! It's very hot too. Iain is taking two classes tommorrow AND the chapel AND the men's group! I think he'll be ready for a long nap too after all that...

Hujambo!

Hello! I'm having an interesting time here at the Bible College. The students are really enjoying hearing all Pastor Iain has to teach them about the Holy Spirit. I am learning some Swahili, that's the language people speak here. People keep saying "Hujambo!" when they meet me so I think that must mean hello. It's not easy learning other languages though, and I have tried quite a few during my travels! Lots of people here speak some English which I think is great.

We are all having a good time but Pastor Iain and Norma are soooo busy! Please keep praying for them!

Lizards and Mosquitoes!

The wedding on Saturday was great fun! The service lasted more than 3 hours! I've never been to a wedding before but Pastor Iain thought that was definitely longer than any wedding service he has been at before. There was a reception after it as well, so we had a very late night, even though we had to get up very early as the first service of the day started at 7.30 am! My friends in Africa REALLY love being in church!

We are now in a place called Dodoma. We are staying in our own little house on the Bible College compound. It's really nice and there are some interesting little creatures living here too. They are lizards - I think they are quite cute but Norma does not agree. And of course, there are mosquitoes everywhere! I don't think they are cute - they get into my lovely yellow wool and make me itchy. Pastor Iain will start teaching today for the next two weeks. Norma will do some sessions too. Iain's going to be teaching the Bible College students about the Holy Spirit. He loves teaching about the Holy Spirit and the people here love to listen to him, so I have a feeling the next couple of weeks are going to be great! Norma is going to speak to some community groups as well - it's just busy busy busy! Please pray that God will give Pastor Iain and Norma all the energy and strength they need.

We are sending lots of love to everyone back at Link Church!

I loved the Seniors!

Hi everyone! Not much time to write because we are really really busy, but I wanted to let you know about the fabulous time we had with the Seniors. Norma spoke to them and they thought she was brilliant! They still get very excited and happy when they hear great things about God, even though they are older than me. I'm really looking forward to the wedding today, this will be the first time I've been at a wedding in Africa so it will be so interesting to see what happens. I'll tell you all about it when I get back! I hope you pray for us in KFC tomorrow - we've got three meetings to go to!

We're here!

It was very exciting arriving in Tanzania and so great to meet my new friend, Bishop Barnabas! I've got friends all over the place but none of the others are Bishops. They are all special people though. Even though we just arrived yesterday there's been no time to put my feet up at all - we have seminars for seniors every morning from today (Thursday) till Saturday. I wondered who the seniors were, but they seem to just be people who are a bit older than me. I'm still quite a young sheep (I just turned three) but they don't mind me coming to their senior's seminars.

I'm very excited because I'm going to a wedding on Saturday! I've done all sorts of things in all sorts of places, but I've never been to a wedding before! If I'd known I would have brought something nice to wear, but I'm sure my lovely scarf will do, and I can comb my lovely yellow wool so it looks very special. Sunday will be another busy day as we'll have three services - please remember to pray for Pastor Iain and Norma as they are the ones doing all the speaking.

We're staying with some Nuns which is good fun. They are lovely and great friends of Pastor Iain and Norma.