Sunday, November 19, 2017

Hausa Church – In French






So the Lift team left yesterday, and Hausa Church was back closer to normal today. Which means there wasn’t any interpretation in to English.  But as we all know, most pastors repeat themselves several  times, so I was able to follow along with out too much difficulty (They repeat themselves because repetition is good for learning!).  The message was on Matthew 25:1-13 and a reminder to always be prepared.  A good lesson for here.  After Church, the Hospital Dentist Hsun Tau Chow wanted to take a picture of the whole congregation so that he could put it on their new song books.  It was a perfect opportunity for me to take a picture as well.  Hsun Tau and Yook Wai are from Singapore.  Yook Wai is a pharmacist working in Galmi.  She also helps us with the Chemotherapy for our patients.



Hsun Tau is also a botanist after a fashion.  He tells me those funny trees that look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book are called a Desert Rose.   And apparently the seeds or fruit or whatever is poisonous.  Good to know.  They have some growing around their place as well.  Hsun Tau seems to have quite the garden growing and offered me some guavas and some plantains (they might have been bananas).  I already have enough food in my fridge so I declined.  They leave on Wednesday back to Singapore for a month, so I guess they are trying to empty out their fridge and cupboards.



I went by Susanne’s house after church and she shared a whole bunch of pictures with me.  She works with the Orthopedic surgeon so a lot of them are not in my area.  She did however take a picture of me doing a caesarean.  I think I may have mentioned that I had an audience for that, and she took pictures of them as well.  So here is a picture of me actually working in Galmi – just in case anyone thought it was a hoax.




Matthew 25:13   
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

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