Home Sweet Hut

(From March 17, 2006) We just got back from a week at our new home in Kasempa and we love it! It was so wonderful to actually see our site and meet the people who live around us. Kasempa is a beautiful little town with hills and fields everywhere. It reminds us of a miniature smokey mountains and the town itself is really clean and peaceful. We can get pretty much everything we need in town for food and supplies which is nice. Our actual home is in a village about 3 miles outside of the Kasempa town and it is in a great community with a school and church close by.
There are some great families placed right around us with some really great kids as well. Everyone is so friendly and welcoming. We were also able to meet some of the people at the ministry of Education that we will be working with. They seem very welcoming. We absolutely love Kasempa and for the first time we really feel like this could be home. Our hut is pretty cool too....as far as huts go. It's a good sice and it's divided into 4 rooms which is nice. It also has a tin roof and cement floor which will help with animal/termite control. Our kinzanza (outside cooking area) is really big and it has high walls which are really nice. We also have our own mango and banana trees right in our yard! Then to top it off with have a dog named Tosh and we like her a lot. So that's our home and we can't wait to get back there for good! We only have 2 more weeks of training and then we'll have our swear in ceremony. Me miss you all like crazy but been greatly affirmed that we our where God wants us to be. Pray for us as we finish up our last couple weeks of training and prepare to enter our community.