Some Village Visits

Village visits are so much fun!  I love to see the faces light up when they see someone different. This week Catherine and I finally made it out to Oscar's village. We took them to the village a while ago and have been wanting to visit, but needed to wait til school holiday or on a Saturday when we are not busy with other things. Finally we had a Saturday and it was school holiday. We showed up in the morning and at first they were all a little shy and mom was in the garden. They quickly went to get Christine(mom) from the garden.  She came and she was so happy and the kids also warmed up soon! It is not so easy to get smearing oil or sugar in the village so we brought them a gift of some of these hard things to get. They loved when I brought the camera out! They love to see themselves.  They all wanted to change their clothes get ready to have their picture taken.  One by one they came out with different clothes. So cute!! 

Collins and Charles

Oscar

Justine, we could not get her to look at the camera at the right time!! She thought this picture was soo funny!

Finally a good smile!

Selfies!

Justine's change of clothes!  They showed me their school reports and Justine does very good in Math!! 

Christine loves staying in the village because she has much more land to work!  She is such a strong lady!! I also love that she has  godly family member around her. 

I also had the opportunity to visit Catherine's village. While we were there, we took the time to visit with the Tata (grandmother). She was so excited to see us! They think she is anywhere between 90 and 100. She is now confined to her bed and has people waiting on her. We sat in her room and were overwhelmed by two things: the smell of urine and her wonderful mind! She had Catherine get a bag that carried many dresses and she kept having her remove them and we were unaware of what she wanted with them. Finally after the last dress was removed she found the necklace that I had given her when I visited one time before.  I was shocked that she remembered me and that she knew where the necklace was.  She loves the necklace and has only taken it off because it is hard to wear when you are in bed all day. She is a beautiful woman and everyone in the village loves her.  It was such a privilege to spend time with her.

She was so shocked to see herself!