Aiy yay - fine

Day 4

We woke up early again, for a genuine Ghanaian Sunday. First we had french toast for breakfast. Andrea does her best to make us comfortable by switching between American and Ghanaian style meals. So for lunch we got fish, complete with heads and fins, and mac and cheese, for the ones with weaker stomaches. aka me and Caity.
Then, we rounded up all the Mephibosheth children and made trips to get them all to church. Normally, when our bus isn't around, it takes them six trips to transport them all. GOD BLESS HER SOUL!
The youngest ones got to attend "Sunday school" in a small building beside the church. The different age groups were assigned a corner. It's amazing to see how people work with what they have. The service lasted about four hours, including Sunday school. Americans would have a fit if they had to miss opening -kick-off of their football games for a couple extra hours at church..
After church, we had to rush to get the children home before the rain came. We did not make it. It POURED. But it was so refreshing and beautiful. We finally had a break from the constant sweating today. We've all basically never so much in our lives. You could straight up ring us out.
We were so pooped when we got home, most of us fell into a nice afternoon coma. I had so much trouble waking up, they had to bribe me with lunch. Katie, Sue and Stephanie, didn't take a nap but instead brought the kids toys today that we had brought as gifts. They were bombarded, literally. It was complete chaos. But the happy kind. :) They loved them. They brought them colorful rings, that the kids put on their ears for "earrings." pretttyyyy.
The kids giggled forever when they saw their reflections in Sue's phone.
This evening, we attended youth group for a few hours, which was fun. We danced and sang and shook hands. Stephanie lead youth group again. The "Clap" game was an unbelievable sucess. In this game, Stephanie would clap her hands and they had to clap with her. If she stopped, and they clapped, they had to sit. It was so fun to see them really get into it. It is intended as a individual game but their interaction made it more of a group game. They had almost more fun "policing" each other than actually playing the game. The prize for winning was a gideon bible or snickers. The last 4 standing won a prize. Once the youth knew a bible was one of the prizes, a few of the youth ran up to Stephanie begging for a bible. "How can you say know to someone begging you for a bible?" said Stephanie. There wasn't enough, breaks a persons heart..... The service was interupting by Andera saying they had to rush Richard, one of the cerbal palsy children to the ER for stiches. We paused the service immediatly for prayer. Andera, Sue and Caity drove Richard to the ER. He probably actually needed about 10 stiches but the hospital here only gave him 5 after they talked him into 2 more. Andera had to pay before they would do anything. They had to hold him down while he was getting stiches because he was thrashing so much...poor guy!

All and all, it was a good day full of excitement. I think a few of us have found their home away from home...