sun burn and Mennonites

Today Amanda and I were going to visit a few of the African woman in their homes, but when they are all not home, that makes the task a bit more difficult. After putting our best effort forth and finding no one to visit, we resorted to going to the beach and trying again tomorrow. This was a very difficult decision, tough life going to the beach in all. So we enjoyed a lovely afternoon at the beach, where, I would find out later, I was fried by the sun like a chicken in KFC. Apparently higher SPF will be needed in future encounters with the Spanish sun.

After the beach, we had to get back because Amanda is supposed to be tutoring a Moroccan girl in Calculus. Amanda got this gig from some Mennonite missionaries who are friends with the Whitleys. They also asked me to help their own daughter with her chemistry, I just laughed and said Ill do what I can. Doing all that I can may only be reading the title of the textbook, but we will see.  We went to the Mennonites home to do this. We get there and their daughter is in Morocco for st (yay no chem!) and the Moroccan girl is a no show, typical of the African Culture of course. While we were waiting for the Moroccan girl, who was a no show, we got to really talking with the Mennonite couple. It was really cool, to learn about their beliefs, which arent all that different from my own (to an extent) and learn about their ministry. They work more with Northern Africans, while we work with western africans. Northern Africans, coming mostly from Morocco and Algeria are a lot more conservative and strict in their Muslim ways than Western Africans, and thus more difficult to work with. The Mennonites were overflowing with knowledge of Muslims and working with them. They taught me a lot about the differences between Muslims and Christians and why it is so difficult to work with Muslims in relation to Christianity. It was really cool to learn so much about Muslims and Mennonites. And I also bet no one else I know has sat down and had a conversation with Mennonite Missionaries working it Spain. I have to say, I am encountering the most unique situations here.

 After the visit with the Mennonites, and spending half an hour looking for Italian salad dressing (with no luck) I then realized that I am completely sun burned and now could easily be confused to be a giant lobster. So after swimming in a bottle of aloe, I am praying for some sort of sun burn relief miracle, it would be greatly appreciated if you could do the same.