What day is it????

Mulie shawnie (How are you)? Ok, it is so hard to even keep up with what day it is. It's all a blur! Deven, Nathan and Ayden: I know you are having soooo much fun at grandma's. Make sure to eat some ice cream for me and Bryan! Tomorrow we will be having a traditional African meal. I will take pictures! We might have fried termites :'(. Ken, I love you so much and I wish you were here with me. The women here are so tough, thank you for treating me like a princess! Pray for us tomorrow. We will be teaching for the first time. There is a dispute in the village we are going to, a couple went to the witch Dr. because they couldn't have a baby. The witch dr. gave her a potion and she got pregnant. Now the husband is taking him to court accusing the witch dr. of having sex with his wife. We saw a "famous" witch dr. today, he is from the congo. This is soooo funny. He lives in a hut and he has a blackberry!!!! Anyway, I am going to let Bryan tell you about the day...

Well.... today was incredible! We went to the village church today and got to see what some of the people do for their church service. The choir would stand in circles and sang without instruments. Mrs. Mary( the missionary) said in one of the songs they sang about giving money. The preacher their was speaking Bemba so I have no idea what he was talking about. After that we went to the local "chief's" hut. Every where we go children follow us and stare. Some of them yell Mzungu (outsider or white person) and run away. Then we went to a nearby village and invited people to a bible study Mr. James( missionary) was going to be teaching. Every one said they would come. But one adult me and my mom invited actually came out of the thirty. Apparently saying they won't come is impolite. But about thirty kids that followed us came. The people here are very nice. Yesterday we were at the market and we were shaking people's hands. You are supposed to only shake someones right hand b/c they wipe with their left. Well.... one guy came up to me and shook my hand with his right hand then went off then came back to me and grabbed my hand with his left hand. Thank God for germ X. Melissa has to carry around an umbrella b/c she got dehydrated. She started to use it as a hiking stick and five of the kids got a stick and copied exactly what she was doing. When you talk in english the kids will copy the words you use and go around saying it for about five min. Its so funny! Me and my mom have been trying to learn some of the bemba language. But my mom always has to ask me how to say certain things. She said "luckily i have Bryan". Here are a few of the words I've learned so far mulli shauni- how are you, buena- im fine(kinda like spanish) Twalisamanana- im going and i will meet you there, miqoui- sir or ma'am( you have different words for how are you walking, how are you running, how are you sitting, how are you worshipping) Kopakana- give me(Thats what the kids would say then we would say ahwea), Shalinipo- im going, ahwea- no, eh- yes. I miss you guys back in the U.S. I love you Nathan, Deven, Ayden, and Dad. I have to go now. There's a seven hour time difference here and its night time here.

SHALINIPO! Love ya
-Bryan and Dana