Hello all :)
>
> This week has been good. The best bits have been Connections on saturday
> afternoon (i'll go into more detail about that) and having Marina back has
> been great.
>
> Marina got back from India last tuesday, and it was great to spend time
> with her on wednesday, friday night (we had lasagne, mmmm) and yesterday
> morning. However, she's now as good as not here because her mum and sister
> have come to stay, so we shan't see her for two weeks.
>
> On wednesday morning i did the talk at the meeting with everyone from Oasis
> in the morning, and it went pretty well, i think! I was quite pleased with
> it, and lots of people said it was good. So that was a confidence builder,
> preparing me for preaching in Portuguese at Church in a few weeks! I spent
> some time with Marina yesterday morning, talking about what i wanted to talk
> about, and she said it would be ok and gave me some tips! So now i just have
> to write it all out in English to tranlate it all into Portuguese! But i'm
> feeling quite good about it, and relishing the challenge.
>
> English on friday was much more enjoyable this week - i had the new kids
> group (they had apparently been told they couldn't come. So we told them
> they could. So the did!) and enjoyed teaching them. Me and Rachel are
> alternating teaching them and the weaker adults group (with the wonderful
> Pastor Sande).
>
> Friday evening was also fun, we spent that at Marina's, adn then we went
> home and had a very girly bonding session staying up till12.30 talking!
> Which was fun and bonding-y, but we were tired the next day (Bearing in mind
> that we normally go to sleep around half 9!).
>
> Things have been good as a team this week, which has really made the whole
> week enjoyable.
>
> Connections, which was the big day-conference that Oasis run for youth once
> a year, on saturay was really great. It was great coming together with
> other christians from all over Beira, and it was just a really great time.
>
> Rachel is currently doing the wonderful job of booking various places for
> our holiday which we're all really looking forward to. We're leaving on the
> 21st Dec, going to two beautiful beach places (one where we will do diving
> and another where we will do snorkeling!) as well as having a night in
> Kruger to do safari :) We'll get back on the 7th January, and we're all
> really looking forward to it.
>
>
> Love Sar xx