The 2nd week

This weekend gone (18th) I got to spend hanging out at the team house with some friends, we had a meal which was great to eat and filling. The cook said it would had been better if she was able to get all the ingredients, but hey this is Africa and you learn to make do. After the meal we got changed into swimming gear and had a swim in the pool.

Yes I know this is not the ship, trust me this pool was great. The water was clear and cool, not bad considering this is Sierra Leone. The place where the team house is located is part of a complex that other NGO's use. You even get a few visitors there like this little fella:

He was just looking for somewhere to hide from the heat. The view from the place was great (Internet here is slow and would take awhile to upload the pictures).

So that was Sunday daytime, not bad I would think. Sunday night was worship and a small teaching on board the ship. I would have enjoyed it better if my brain would get out of sound tech mode, but I'm not called to be doing any of that here.

Monday was a normal day at work catching up with any tickets from the weekend, Monday evening I had to go to HR induction meeting where we were given lots of information so as you can imagine my brain was mush after all that. But it provided the opportunity to have all the paperwork completed and to meet some new people.

I still can't quiet belief that my first missions trip is for 6 months here on the Africa Mercy - wow, God is certainly in control here.

On Tuesday night I went on deck to watch the sun set:

The sun set's here very quickly, but it is beutiful.

On Wednesday night there was a wicked lightning storm and it was awsome to watch, plus I got to hang out with some cool people watching Sci-Fy.

On Thursday day I had to resolve an issue with a printer that had me baffled for a full day, it came in for a repair to the rollers as it was not picking up paper properly all the time, so the rollers were replaced. This only made the problem worse :(

I went to our store room and found another printer that was the same make and model (we don't carry spare printers), there was no notes to the nature of the fault with this printer so I used it to replace the faulty one. This did not work out to well. I ended uptaking both printers apart and making one working printer from both. Its not like I can just ring up the manufacture and have them send out an engineer to come and fix the fault plus this is Africa if you can make it work any way possible then thats whats you do.

Thursday night was the community worship\teaching night this is normal on the Africa Mercy (or AFM for short), tonight was different as the worship and teaching was mixed together around the tabernacle. I really enjoyed this as it felt like I could worship in my way and not feel that I should be worshiping through service (a personal strugle). I never knew how much God would be speaking to me through this mission and even thinking back on this past year means times of weaping in both sorrow and happyness.

I miss my family in Newcastle nothing can replace them but for now in this season of my life here is where I'm called, so here I will be.