So yesterday Aamnda and I went to make a few visits but we were only able to catch Endye at home (the woman who always feeds us) so we spent a few hours hanging out with just Emdye, her kids were still at school. It was really cool just to talk to Endye and hear about Senegal (where she is from) and her perspective of being an immigrant in Spain. She said she like Senegal much better than Spain but there is no work in Senegal and there is usually work here in Spain. I also learned that she knows 4 languages, which quite impressed me considering she never attended any sort of school. Once her kids got home from school we all ate together, and the food this time was AMAZING. I am seriously starting to love African food. It was served on a big platter, as usual, and was a rice dish, as usual, but there was this red sauce on it that was to just die for, it also had chicken, fish, cabbage, and sweet potatoes. Lunch was followed by the usual Senegalese potent but sugary tea and more hanging out. Amanda and I really feel comofortable and almost at home at Endye’s she is a wonderful lady. While I was sitting on the couch watching tv I yawned and Endye left the room and returned with a pillow and told me to take a nap on her couch! It was just too funny, she is the most welcoming person I have ever met in my life. It also turns out that she was going to get her daughter to come to our house and invite us to lunch, but we just beat her to the punch by inviting ourselves lol.
After Endyes, we went with joel to play baseball with another American missionary and his baseball team. This missionary started a baseball team with a bunch of local Spanish teenagers as a way to form a ministry and reach the people of Spain. The funny part is that no one, I mean NO ONE, plays baseball here is Spain. I was a bit worried about embarrassing myself on the baseball field but would you believe that I was better than some of the guys!? It was really entertaining to watch all these guys play baseball because they weren’t very good at all but they are learning how to play better and not many people in Spain have any sort of opportunity to play baseball, that’s for sure. After baseball we got tapas on the beach with the Whitleys, which was a perfect way to end the day.
Today we made some visits as well. We visited Beatrice with the Whitleys who just had her baby a week ago! The baby was just adorable. We also learned in our visit with Beatrice that her husband was out of work and they didn’t have enough money to throw a baby naming ceremony/party (a big part of African culture) and she was quickly running out of supplies that are necessary for a new born baby. This just broke my heart, I can’t imagine what she is going through. So we went with the whitleys to the pharmacy and bought Beatrice all the sorts of things a new baby needs. The look on Beatrice’s face once we returned with all the baby stuff was full of appreciation and happiness. After dropping the stuff off the Whitleys had to go pick up their kids from school so Amanda and I stayed for a while longer at Beatrice’s to just “hangout.” We spoke with her husband who told us what a hard time he was having trying to find work. I can’t imagine how hard it would be to have a new born baby and not have any idea when or if at all their next pay check is coming from. It just broke my heart. So please keep Beatrice and her family in your prayers, they really need it. & you can already see God working in their lives by having such people as the Whitleys be there for them in the really tough times.
This is Beatrice, her new son Michelle, and her husband, Una hermosa familia.
Sorry about these posts being so long, there is just so much to say! & you know me, I always have so much to say.
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