Day Eight (Weeds and Wheelbarrows)

Today the team was cutting weeds out in front of the church so they could use the field as a parking lot. When we cut the weeds we were using hoes, scythe, and machetes. We ended up clearing close to an acre of weeds while we ended up acquiring blisters all over our hands. We had a guy named Jeffery who showed up and wanted to work so he went and got a wheelbarrow and helped Amanda and I fill the floors in the Sunday school huts. This is were Sam comes into the story again. After working on his day of we made it up to him by paying him for his labor and giving him the next day (today) off so he could rest. Any way, Sam shows up in his nice jeans and a white basketball jersey just to check on the stage that had been concreted. He needed to throw water on it so it would dry hard in time for the service that night. When he saw us weeding he rolled his jeans up to his knees, turned his shirt inside out to avoid stains, grabbed a scythe and a machete, and went to town. He ended up cutting down as many weeds as the whole team in less time with his dress clothes on! The guy is this absolute servant/workaholic that is always just a phone call away when we need him. That night Chad taught what looked to be the first topical study the Nigerians have ever heard. Honestly I don’t think they’d ever turned to that many references in one night. It turned out really good and the people were blessed by it. Quick update on the braiding attempt by Katherine and Amanda, IT LOOKED HORRIBLE! I looked like a combo of Medusa and the psycho waiter of bedtime stories. Any it lasted two hours, and I got lots of crazy looks from the girls and Okay. More later from the Abuja Blog Squad