Dumela Botswana

I haven't posted a blog in three weeks for two reasons.  One, we have been consumed with office work and missionary support work and countless errands and putting out of fires, etc, ect, none of which is exciting to my reading audience nor even to myself sometimes.  Much as I love this work, there has been little of adventure to post.  And second, we have had time to breathe and pee and sleep (most of the time), but little else.  Our office is a beehive of activity, and with 90+ junior missionaries in need of constant support or help or supplies or funds or medical advice, we are at it most days from 8:30 am until 9:00 pm and sometimes much later.   I took on the role of mission nurse a couple of weeks back, and some days have received only a handful of urgent requests for perceived dire situations (or not!) but other days have been quite consumed with trips to the doc, the lab, the pharmacy, the hospital.  There will be much celebration when our new m...

 It takes a special kind of grit to receive baptism in a font of icy water when it’s only 55 degrees outside with a stiff cold wind blowing up onto the plateau. But three young women did just that today in the village of Kanye where we traveled for church. We inspected two flats in Kanye as well as visited the thriving Kanye Branch, a small congregation of our faithful. PDay last week was spent at the most exotic sounding but not-so-exquisite-in-real-life adventure park hilariously named Lion Park Resort.   We rode the ferris wheel overlooking the dry winter bush… ...the swings... ...and the train... ...and we visited the three sibling lions caged in the park.  They're quite impressive even behind the fence. The Number One Ladies Detective Agency book series by Alexander McCall Smith induced me to fall in love with this country, its people, and its culture.  We located The Princess Hotel, where Mma Romatswe our heroine of the books, takes red bush tea each Satu...