In Our Eyes -- The Girls

Last Friday, we went out to do a seed project. 

(See our parent's post for more detailed info.) 

This post is to show a little about how we feel going out to villages 

and doing projects like this.

We were partnering with BGR to give out seed in the village where our mission church is. 

We left our house at about 7:00am then went to pick up some church members to go along with us. 

When we first found out that we were going to be going to distribute seed, to be 

honest, we were not super excited. 

It is very hard for us to feel like we belong when we go out to the village. 

When kids are staring at us constantly we feel very out of place. 

We try to have joy while sharing the love of Christ, (who wouldn't) but when it is hot and you feel like the whole world is watching you, it can be uncomfortable. 

We prayed and asked God to give us peace about the heat and people looking at you and He really did help us find joy. 

Lilly and Meghan love to take pictures!

Let me just tell you how many flies there were. I mean hundreds! 
And we were sitting up against a mud wall with many ladies pressing up against us.

Poor Emma had some cultures shock and had to go outside for a moment to regroup herself. 

We think that they were attracted to our shoes (who knows why?!?) and then they found us. 

I tried to take a picture, but you are going to have to use you imagination. 
Try to imagine 100 flies trying to land on you!

Some of the flies that were landing on us and the women around us. 

We then went out side to watch two trained men teach the

 Mozambicans how to plant a good garden. 

There wasn't very much shade there and it was so hot. 

The women watching the demonstration. 

We were thankful for clouds that gave us some relief from the sun.

Eventually the sun just kept on coming so the girls headed over to a shaded spot.

Then we walked into the church to get away from people and 

the heat for a couple of minutes. 

A nice lady from church gave us some of this stuff. 
It was peanuts and some kind of orange sticky stuff. It was very good at the time. 

Enjoying a snack and a break form the heat.

Then, we started distributing the seed. We were able to bless about 75 people with seed.

 We all wanted to see what was happening outside, but it was just so hot. 
Here everyone is trying to get in the shade, right before we left to go back to Nampula . 

Mom fanning her shirt in the heat, Emma scratching a mosquito bite and lot of boys staring at us.
FUN!

A little on-looker.

Please pray that we will be able to find joy in going out to villages. 
It can be challenging at times to enjoy the heat, flies, dirt, and people staring at you. 

Hugs,

The Girls