Hut to Hut ministry with some great Texans

Rhino sighting, the closest I have got so far

An unusual sight in Livingstone and it came from TEXAS

A typical African mom day!

A mom washing clothing while her baby plays on the ground, I also love the maize
hanging to dry

A visit to Sichilobe LIFE Preschool with Philip Smethurst, Ps. Joe and Hienie Vanherdeen

Pastor Joe Van Heereden was one of the guest speakers to the AMT class.  After his week of speaking we took him out to see a LIFE Preschool. He was accompanied by his brother Heinie
The children loved singing to us and Philip shared a story to encourage them.  We stopped along the way and bought some curios from some of the villagers.

A grocery trip to Katima, Namibia may happen like this!!

A truck leaves our rapid 14 base about 5am and picks me up in town.  By the time they get to town everyone needs to pee cause of the bumping ride and probably being still half asleep when leaving the base.  It is extremely cold so lots of blankets and sleeping bags are needed.

And you may as well catch up on sleep because we drive for about 4 hours to get there.  Coolers are needed to bring back the cheese which is way cheaper accross the border.
The sun comes up and blankets are thrown aside, the tarp get rolled up and snacks come out for breakfast.

We get to the border and ask for a toilet, in Africa if you say washroom people think you wanna have a bath.  So we are given directions inside the immigration office and this is what we find, mmmmm interesting I would need different body parts but you gotta do what you gotta do.  Jessi and Mariel take their turn and I am trying to procastinate but then it is my turn. So I go in and find another door at the end, kick it open because it had no lock and there in all its glory was a toilet seat, the sad thing was that it would have been better to use the urinal because you could not sit on the toilet anyways! Oh Africa you continue to expand my borders................

We stamp our passports to leave Zambia and while Jack takes care of the paperwork for the truck we stretch our legs.

We cross over, the guys go to hardware, tools and spares and the ladies go get LOADS of groceries.

Lunch happens around 2pm and then we try to cram in the last minute stuff and head to the border around 5pm.  The border closes at 6pm so we need to be on the Zambia side by this time and we make it.  Everybody is happy, a productive day it was.

Then the fun begins, we get within 20 minutes of driving and something is not right and we smell burning rubber, we investigate and the air brakes are not working!!!!
So the guys take a look and try to fix it we go a bit further and then it gets worse off the back tires were burning off so we needed to stop on the side of the highway and let it cool off.  By now it is later and getting really cold, so out comes the blankets and jackets.


So we wait and we wait and we wait and then realize that the truck is not in good shape, we call the base and get some advice on what to do to gain pressure for the brakes to release them and while we try to do this the truck batteries die.............so it gets even better by this time and we have no booster cables, oops and then some shinanigans happen because we are just trying to make the most of the fun while we wait, by now it is about 9pm we are hungry and cold,  hahahaaa




By about 10pm we try to flag down some vehicles to ask for booster cables, about 8-10 cars and vans stop and NOBODY has booster cables.  By now we are numb from being cold, trying to get out all the snacks we had to eat and realizing we literally have a ton of food but they were all cans, :0)))

By 11pm we are seriously cold and if we did not laugh we would cry so even crazier things happen like playing in the middle of the road or trying to pretend we were swimming and some other craziness

After awhile a huge refrigerated semi stopped and he took his batteries out of his truck to help start our and we were on our way bundled up again, we also then did stop about 50km down the way to help tow another bus and then by 1am we were in Livinsgstone, I was dropped off and then the truck died again on the way to the base, they were all back at Overland Missions base by 2am I think.

A trip to Katima 22 hours!!