IN AFRICA...WELCOME TO MICS!!

I am finally in Africa for the 2nd time and I am loving every second of it! I arrived in Lusaka on the 28th of Feb. I stayed in Lusaka with Sue and Joel Bolthouse and just slept and went into town and Sue cooked for me. When Rhonda and Gil arrived in Lusaka we had Ginny Fawl soup. It was interesting, very good actually it was mixed with an array of veggies. I left Lusaka on March 3rd and arrived in Macha around 11:30 and was greeted by Sawyer and Joe and the house parent named Yvonne and her baby Jarrah!! She is the cutest baby ever...seriously. She doesn't wear a diaper so we cannot hold her but I love to give her little kisses. I found out I am going to be teaching 4th grade math. If any of you know me that well I am not good at math at all so please pray for wisdom for me as I teach these little kids:) I am going to helping Mrs. Jane, who is the 4th grade teacher. Sawyer is teaching 5th grade math and it is so so good to be with her again. Joe is teaching 6th grade math and loving it; he is also a house parent for the 13 boys in boarding. Sawyer and I are the house moms for the 9 girls in boarding along with 2 Zambian women: Sylvia and Fannie. Fannie is a 2nd grade teacher at MICS. MICS is amazing. I am so excited to be here and to finally finish what God has called me to do. I am going to be helping with the activity room during the day and doing crafts and music and such during the week. The dorm rooms are like camp. All the children sleep in bunk beds and Sawyer and I share a double bed. The bugs here are ENORMOUS but many of them eat the mosquitoes so they are a good thing:)
We have a theme on Friday called Fabulous Friday and we have a different theme every week; me, Sawyer and Joe are in charge of them. They have had SNOW DAY, Valentine's theme, France and Spanish and today we had Stars and Planet day. We read 2 books about space and colored a worksheet on the 9 planets and read Genesis 1 and Psalm 8. We also watched a youtube video from Francis Chan and Luie Giglieo about how big the universe is and how small we are...but God still loved us enough to come and die for us and set us free from our sins. Seeing these kids and being in Africa has brought me so much joy and I can feel the presence of Jesus so fully here. I can also feel so many prayers surrounding me too. Please continue to pray for MICS as a whole as Rhonda and Gil are not here. Gil has stage 4 lukemia and they are getting more treatment for him. Jesus is amazing and nothing is impossible with HIM!!
--rach