We woke up on Friday to no internet, so I spent the morning reading and resting a bit. Chisomo then took Lewis and me on a stroll around their neighborhood, pointing out the property that they own, and the plans she has for expanding their farming efforts. It’s a lovely neighborhood and it was a beautiful, sunshiney day. I stopped to take a picture of a unique tree that I’ve only seen in Southern Africa so I could try and identify it. It looks like a cactus, but it has a woody trunk, it’s very confusing. It turns out it is not a cactus, but is a succulent. It grows well even in drought, thus highly suited to the Southern Africa region (it can be found in South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Botswana, Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya).

In the evening, I mixed up a bread dough, hoping to have enough time for it to attract wild yeast to rise. I should have started it the night before, but it actually did rise a little bit when I baked it Saturday afternoon. It was nice to be able to do something special for the brethren on the Sabbath.

The wi-fi was finally up and running by Friday mid-afternoon, so I was able to get some work done before the Sabbath came.

The Chichaya’s are very hospitable, and took great care of us during our time together.

Sabbath morning brethren from various congregations came to Kadoma for services. Kadoma is fairly central, so it was a good location for folks to come to. It was lovely to share the Sabbath with God’s people, singing the same hymns, and speaking the same words… what a blessing.

After we saw the brethren off (Mabasa drove them to town so they could catch buses back to their home areas) the power had once again gone off. Once the sun had set I taught the Chichaya girls how to play crazy 8’s, go fish, and seven up/seven down using the light of a solar charged lamp. We decided, since we’d had a late lunch, to just have snacks for dinner; so we popped some popcorn and pulled out granola bars, beef sticks, dried fruit, and some nuts to share and played games long into the night. The power did not come on again until just as we were headed to bed.