All in all, this has been a very busy and draining week, with a diverse number of things that happened. Thursday and Friday mornings were taken up with payroll, my least favourite job, and I’ve been finding it challenging to get home from work and then have people here and things happening at home. Not least, it’s hard to get to work when I’d rather sit and chat with my friends! Friday afternoon’s study at the orphanage did not go well, I don’t know why. It was very hot and everyone was sluggish, I wasn’t even excited about what we were doing, it was a disaster. However, I still believe that it’s more important sticking it out and working on those relationships than feeling that every week was a triumph.
On Friday evening I could finally spend some time with Melanie, and then yesterday was just so full again. One of our friends needed the bakkie at like 7h30, then I needed to drop off some stuff for the new month at the bookshop, and then I went over to do some work at the flat. I’m so pathetic, though, was so tired that I eventually did very little. And just when I was home and hoping to relax a little bit, Clemilda asked whether I would go with her to town. We’ve been able to use our water pump again, but more and more water is running out, and we finally could not live this like any longer and needed to go buy a new tank for the pump. It’s so ridiculous, we’ll all be out of here in 3 weeks or less!
Crafts ninistry went okay, was at least less distracted than last week. We finished our pictures and then each person talked about what she drew and told us some stuff about herself. Some of the girls didn’t understand the concept that well, but I expected that. I was encouraged simply because they seemed to like the discussion. We also had a good group, namely 1o, and if you leave out the 2 girls from our church that’s 8 bairro girls, which is the most we’ve had this year. Soon after I got home from that I needed to be back at the flat for a little get-together that Allison arranged – not really a housewarming, but a time for dedicating the flat and the people living in it to the Lord. Everyone who came were SIL people, but it was nice, some I’m friends with already and others I’d like to get to know better, and they’re all a big part of Allison’s life. Dedicating a new house in prayer is a family tradition of Allison’s, and even though I would probably have used a different prayer 
I really like it. It was a cozy and blessed time. I’m looking forward to all the ways the Lord is certainly going to be molding me! One cloud on the horizon is that our shower drain was blocked, and when one of A’s colleagues was looking at it last night, he discovered that actually a section of the drain needs to be replaced entirely. So although I will start moving my stuff over this week I’m not sure what day I’ll move in and whether this will be fixed before then… But the Lord knows what we need, right?
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