Here is an update from our sister in Nigeria:
Hey Everyone!
Just wanted to let you know what’s kinda going on.
Yesterday, Saturday, was a very full day. J, the other young American m here and is my roommate(literally), and I went to Bezer Home, which is the home where the women and children of Mashiah Foundation stay in the complex, at about 10. J has a Bible study with a few young Nigerian girls on Saturday morning. We just did an art project yesterday. Most of the girls don’t speak very good English, their native language is Hausa. And then J did a reading lesson with a few of them and I went down and played with some of the kids. After we went back to the apartment and ate. Then M B was supposed to pick us up to go shopping for Nigerian clothes for us. But one woman who works at Bezer home had fallen that morning and hurt her ankle so we had to go check on her. She lives in the slums of Jos. It calls Totanwatta (I’m not sure on the spelling) and M B says she usually doesn’t take people there that soon because it is so sad! It was just like the pictures off the adopt a child comercials and the magazines. The childern were so sad looking and they would follow us around because they do not often see white people and white women are even rarer.
After getting to the woman’s house we determined that her ankle was just sprained so after icing it and wrapping it we were off to the market. There were SOOO many people there it’s a lot like Chinatown to me… I liked it. I bought 3 pieces of fabric for dresses and I spent about 2850 naira (which is roughly $25) and J got 2 pieces. J already has 3 dresses but she will be here for MUCH longer than I will. Anyway we dropped them off at the seemstress and she said they should be ready by Thursday. I am very excited about that. Today J and I went to an Assemblies of God Church here. There are a LOT of churches here. And the music was good and the people were lively but they had a special speaker and he YELLED his whole sermon, it was mostly rambling and it was about 2 hours long. But it’s not the normal pastor so I may go back there. I’m not sure yet. Anyway J and I went and check on that woman again today and she is doing better.Well tomorrow (Feb 26) I start with the vacation Bible school and we will see how that goes.
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