love, oh love, will i stab you in the back

the past few days have been a little strange, firstly the sun has disappeared and been replaced by clouds, rains and cold (and yesterday even a whole pile of fog)  for the first time since i arrived here i had to put on a hoody because i was freezing.

on monday i went to beit cure (the children's orthopedic hospital) and this time there were people there because it wasn't a public holiday.  we started of by gathering the children together in the play area and singing some songs with them - my chichewa singing is getting better! and then told the story of jesus calming the storm before playing a game of bowling with them.  they got taken off to have their tea so we didn't get to finish off the program we prepared of colouring in and then marking their colouring but i absolutely loved my time there and the children didn't let the fact that they were sick or had disabilities stop them from having fun and joining in with everything.  most of the children who were there were in casts indicating that they had already had surgery and were on the mend which was really encouraging but when we go back next week it could be a new set of children who are still disabled and sick which i've been warned could be tough to see.

yesterday i had yet another day off because joseph got his dates wrong and thought i was only getting back from lilongwe so he didn't organise any school for us to go to, and the weather was awful so i didn't wanna go for a walk or exploring so i sat in the house and read a bit feeling quite useless because i wasn't out doing any ministry

then this morning by 8am we still hadn't heard anything from joseph about what school we had to go to so me and kaitlyn decided that we would spend the day planning our sunday school lesson for sunday instead.  when kaitlyn arrived at the office at 9.30 she found joseph waiting for us to say he had no money to phone us and we were going to junior academy and should be leaving at 10.  since i hadn't even left to house yet we told him we would meet him there and be a bit late - little did we know that our minibus would go a different way than usual and we got lost trying to get there and after walking around we eventually found it at 11 - and joseph was no where in sight.  we spent some time with the kids and they all wanted hugs and to hold our hands but told us joseph had never been there at all so we have no idea where he was.

so yet again i didn't do any 'ministry' but i did get to see the children and they made me feel really loved running up to us and screaming 'uncle matty' and 'auntie katy' as soon as they saw us.  the tackled me with such force i thought i was going to fall over.

so now i'm updating my blog before we really do start planning our sunday school lesson

love ya's all
matty :)