Saturday

Right after breakfast (yea! Oatmeal) we posed for a picture in our Living Water for the World tee shirts, all 70+ of us. 

We had our last “teaching group” meeting with answering questions that had come up during our time here and some “magic tricks” which include water.

Let’s talk about some of the people—one of my roommates is legally blind.  She gets around pretty well in the daytime, but at night she has to get a ride back to our room.  She has a phone app that asks her what she wants, cuz she can’t read the screen.  Each morning she asks it to give her the temperature and it tells her the temp in the room—it will if asked give her the outside temp.  It tells her the time, and reads her e-mails to her, etc.  A really great assistance for her.  We have a non-English speaker in one of the classes who has a translator speaking to him constantly, which is rather confusing and disconcerting until you get used to the additional “noise” while people are talking.  We have students from Chicago, New Jersey, Connecticut, Missouri and all the southern states especially Florida.   Seven Texans are here, our five and 2 more from Houston.  We have folks with a wealth of Living Water experience and others with experience with other projects.  We really can learn a lot from the “war stories” of others.

We are being encouraged by several staff folks to choose “their” special pet project country for our mission.  As yet, we are undecided—we have 8-10 hours on the drive back to hash this out. 

This afternoon the water guys gave us their report of what they learned and then my group presented a “water celebration” which is something that will be done when the system is producing purified water.

Supper was catfish and cole slaw, hush  puppies and baked potato.  I ate most of it. 

We discussed the attitudes that need to be changed when going in country and why we Americans seem to behave like elephants (taking over and asserting our way) 

We received our graduation certificates this evening and were commissioned to go on a mission trip. 

We’re packing up early in the morning, having breakfast at 8, Q and A at 9 and worship at 10 and hit the road at 11.  Our drive home will be 8-10 hours depending on traffic and our stops.