Quickly, Quickly

Hello!

First, I need to let you know that SPTC (Swaziland Post and Telecommunications) is having some major issues. I mentioned last week that only Google, Facebook and Skype were working. I learned at church that this was an SPTC-wide problem. However, this week, Google and Facebook have been down as well. So most of yesterday was internetless and the newspapers promise that today will be more of the same. So my updates and communication could be erratic until this gets sorted out.

If I type quickly though, I'm hoping I can get some things through. So here is my Saturday in pictures.

Saturday morning was laundry day. It was nice outside, and I had a few minutes free. I do laundry a bit differently here, but I still separate my whites from my colors.

Ok, a lot differently. It actually works pretty well. Stomping on the laundry forces the water in and out of it, and then I turn it over and stomp it some more. It comes out cleaner than it went in, and it smells nice, so that's good. I do a cycle with soap, then two rinse cycles. Then I do that over again with my colors.

It was a beautiful day outside, so I was able to put things on the clothesline. My whites are in the sun, my colors are on the porch. They were both dry by the time I got home (late). Because I don't have fabric softener (and maybe other reasons too, I don't know), everything comes off the clothesline a little bit stiff. That goes away when I put it on.

Here's the left side of the stage at church. I was there early because Paul and I were adjusting lights (hence the ladder) and fixing cables. We got everything set up and things went smoothly.

This was my domain for the evening. Between the sound board and the light board, I had a lot of fun.

This is a view of the sanctuary from on top of the video room (the sound board is located up here as well). The praise band is lounging around now, but they were on their feet the rest of the night, so it balanced out. We started with 4 rows of chairs so that people would sit toward the front. By the end of the night, however, we had about 300 people in here. There was a lot of energy and we had a good time praising God.

-Ben