RS Party! - So. Sudan Ambassador - Family History Class #2 - Visiting - Out of Water??

Sister Martin arranged a Relief Society Party in our apartment before we were transferred. When Elder and Sister Slaugh arrived, Sister Martin broke the news that there would be a party in her apartment, since we moved. 

They played games like, "Do you Love your Neighbor".

The kids even looked like they were having fun.

Dance to the Music...

They all danced to some Habesha (local Ethiopian) music.

Hungry?

They ate some Habesha food and had a great time.

When it was over, some exclaimed they wanted more parties. 

African Union (AU) Communications/Public Relation Couple, Elder and Sister Makuwa invited us to join them for dinner with two of their (AU) contacts. The one in front with Sister Martin is the So. Sudan Ambassador to the AU, Natalina.  

Natalina was interested in preserving the stories of her people and was interested in ideas of archiving them. Since Sister Martin has a passion for and graduated from BYU in Family History, The Makuwa's thought it would be a good idea to bring us together.  

The evening was a success as Sister Martin and Natalina talked and talked during dinner about how our church has created a massive family search program that is used world-wide to preserve records of individual. Natalina said they lost their lives and history and needed a modern way to preserve their stories and records. Sister Martin also helped her sign up for the upcoming RootsTech Genealogy worldwide conference. 

She later thanked "Terry" Sister Martin for the beautiful evening. She said she attended RootsTech online as Sister Martin recommended and said it was a missing part she needed. 

The buffet was advertised as a Muslin / Ramadan feast and it truly was. I sat next to Ibrahim (a Muslim) and we had a great time talking and feasting together as well. 

Round 2 - Family History Class

It's sometimes a challenge to just set up a familysearch.org account for some members. We needed extra time to get it going so we had another class. We need 3rd or 4th one but we're running out of time.

Of course, Sister Martin made a banana cake. We had some bananas that were just right for that.

We picked up some more eggs at the little SUK (a little store inside a tin shack).

The price has gone up a lot, 15 birr per egg. That's $1.42 per dozen.

We had the opportunity to visit one of our good members and his daughter.

Washing hands before eating.

They have a nice humble home and greeted us warmly with a Habesha lunch. It was very tasty.

Since we're going home soon, we gave them a picture of the Nairobi, Kenya temple that they want to attend some day. He had a nail and hung it up straight away. 

This video shows his daughter going up the ladder to their second floor bedroom.

We ran out of water and so our maintenance person ordered a water truck to deliver water. The City water is unpredictable so most residents have these water tanks with a series of pipes and pumps to supply water when the city water is off, which we found out was most of the time.

Our first experience with a water truck. This is the road in front our the house. The roads are being dug up for the second time. 

They even climb up and fill the upper tank.

Had fun going to lunch with our amazing Senior Sister Missionaries that serve in the Mission Office.