Well Update...

Campus remains pretty quiet with the Bible students gone for break and ministry assignments. 

We traveled to Choma on Easter weekend and enjoyed learning about and having a late Seder, Passover meal at our friend's the Howells' home.

They allowed us to stay in their guest suite for the night and we joined them and the Poetice folks for a wonderful Easter Sunday service.

Fritz enjoyed hanging out with their children and we enjoyed the fellowship.

Fritz is also playing soccer most afternoons with some boy's his age and learning a lot. 

Sunflowers are very drought tolerant. It was already
too dry for most of this small field to germinate.

Back home we've focused on school; sending out a newsletter; working on some house projects; planning a couple trips, and preparing for Anna's visit next month between her finals and starting her summer position.

We look forward with excitement to showing her some of Zambia and having a couple weeks with her!

This also means that Cory is doing some on-line shopping with the items heading to California so that Anna can bring in a few things we cannot find here.

The power shedding remains interesting with the 'pattern' somedays being at random times or not fitting the expected 8 hour time frame from the detailed, pages long schedule.

Someone asked on a local WhatsApp group when the power would be off that day and a response was "Not even [the electric company] knows"

We received a few sprinkles of rain the last couple days and know that areas around us are getting rain but we still need much more.

[Between the time I wrote this and posting...we had a large thunderstorm with heavy rain and some hail but minimal plant damage. Our rain guage only reads 1/2 inch but nearby trees probably filtered out some due to the strong winds. Praising the Lord!] 

We are enjoying the clouds as we know we will be heading into a time without clouds for several months of the dry season. 

The weather continues to slowly get cooler as fall advances but significantly above normal. 

The first of April we reset our thermometer so the range the last 9 days is between: 87.6-77.2˚F.

Cory talked to the leadership about the commercial size well that the government had said they would provide only to receive the disappointing news that the money was spent on road equipment.

So the current plan is to look into having someone come out to clean the wells and see if we can get the one that is working now improved and get both the others on the Bible campus into a working state.

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