Monday

Hello everyone! We've arrived at Buseko! We are all safe, our travels went well. God was really looking out for us. The only major glitch was when our rented bus wouldn't start and we had to push it around the mall parking lot to get it started. It was about a 1 hour delay and God got us going again. (And many of the locals laughing at all the white people pushing the bus.) The drive from Lusaka (where we landed) to Ndola was beautiful. It is rainy season so everything is lush and various shades of green. The main highway was interesting, every 70 km or so there is a police checkpoint, where you need to slow down and they check your vehicle (we were waved through all stops). Also, every time you get close to a "major" (which could be very small) town / village there are speed bumps on the highway. Every 5-10 kms there are little huts and people. It's not like Canada where there is 100's of kms between towns and cities with farmland in between. There are always people walking or riding bikes on the highway and lots of people bring their wares or food to the edge of the road to sell.

I could already write a book on what we've seen and learned about this beautiful country, but we are heading out for the day soon, and I don't have much time today.

The property here is beautiful and the kids are precious. Natalie already had a chance this morning to assist with feeding and getting them ready. Today we are going to visit Grace Academy and visit one of the local markets. Tomorrow the plan is to do some work @ Grace, probably painting.

Thank you again for all your prayers. We will have many stories to tell when we get home.

Until the next time we get the internet!

Roberta (for the whole team)