I'm in paradise!

Hi!
I’m using the internet at the swanky hotel we’re staying at for R&R. It’s super great here- our rooms face the beach/ocean and there’s a water slide, pool and lots more. The best part is the bathrooms- shower and bathtub- I haven’t felt so clean for ahile. AND airconditioning- we very spoiled! Right now some of our team are playing beach volleyball against the staff. I feel like I’m in California, except there are many African’s here.

Our Malawie team came back Sunday night- it was good to see them on one hand and on the other hand we felt a bit of a loss for having to mix with people we haven’t bonded with. I was excited to see them! It was also a very exciting time- we were all in suspense to find out our new teams and where we would be going for the Jesus film cycle. Sunday night we found out where and with whom we’d be going. I wanted to go to Tanga- not sure if I mentioned that before. I’m not sure why, but God somehow put Tanga in my mind. Maybe because I know it’ll be a beautiful place to visit. And One of the girls who I challenged to join life ministries is going to Tanga with the Pentecostal organization casfeta in June for one week. It’s a heavy Muslim area. So, I was pleased to find out that I am going to Tanga. Jeremy from my old team is also on my new team He’s like my younger brother- only 17 years old- we call him Jer Bear.

So, please pray for us as we go to Tanga and for the other teams who are going to places even farther from here: Dodoma, Moshi, Mbeya, Aringa, morogoro and Mtwara (where the staff are going- south of here). We’ll be joining Jesus film staff in the area and showing the films in different places every night. I’m bringing the notebooks that Mrs Flamma gave to me to Tanga to give out to kids. I like my team that’s going to Tanga. We’re going with Helawi- the Etheopian who works for life ministries campus ministries. He’s so passionate when he shares the gospel and definetly has the gift of evangelism.

Some of us went to Helawie’s church on Sunday. We rode in the back of his truck- 13 of us. On the way back home we got stopped by the police who wanted a bribe, but Helawi wouldn’t give it to him, so he wanted 40,000 shillings- which we had to go home to get while the police man held Helawi’s driver’s license. We wanted a receipt for the ticket, but the police man wouldn’t give a receipt, so he settled for a 10,000 shilling gift. So praise God. The penticostal service was penticostal style- preaching was real preaching- he shouted most of the sermon which took about an hour. Then some stayed for prayer- another hour after the service. Helawi translated the sermon from the Etheopian language into English. Then we went to a touristy place and had subway for lunch and ice cream. Yum yum. It’s a little different- but the cookies we sooooooo good.

I think I’ll end my tail there for now- others are waiting to use the internet who haven’t used it for a few weeks.
Love Louise

PS I'd still love to hear from you- know some news from home- give me some reason for coming back home.... by the way, I'm staying here with Susan at Anne and Dismus' small appartment. Anne wanted me to tell you that she wants us to stay. I told her that she'd had to break the news to my parents. (note the sarcasm)