Putting all your eggs in one basket

Shuffling through the pile of mail today, a smile comes across my face. Ever receive an envelope from someone and you know it has good news in it just by looking at the address? Usually I only find marketing brochures or bills, but today a familiar envelope arrives.

Greetings from the Central Africa Medical Missions in Zambia and Malawi!

Perhaps you are experiencing a snowstorm, bitter cold, or the dry winds of winter. Today it is 74 degrees Fahrenheit in both Lusaka, Zambia and Lilongwe, Malawi.

Lutheran Mobile Clinic

The month of April got off to an interesting start. As you heard in the previous letter, we walked into a flooded house after being away for a weekend. Torrential rains caused a roof leak, but thankfully nothing very valuable was lost and, after all, water can be cleaned up with mop, or several mops in this case. I am very thankful that it was during the last rain of rainy season that the roof decided to give up. Nothing fast ever happens in Malawi, and we are still waiting for the roof to be repaired.

Greetings,

I hope this letter finds each of you doing well. We are nearing the end of “Rainy Season”. The maize is very tall. The pumpkins that are planted throughout the maize fields are ripe; tobacco is being harvested. The roadsides on the way to our clinic at Suzi are lined with both pink and orange flowers. The poinsettias in our yard are turning bright red. We’ve been enjoying eating avocado, sweet potatoes, guava, pineapple, pumpkins and roasted maize. The evening temperatures are turning cooler. It’s a beautiful time of year in Malawi.

This month I was able to take a weeklong break from clinic work and travel to Victoria Falls on the Zambia/Zimbabwe border. I will leave out the part of how it took two LONG days of bus rides to get there… and just mention that it was a breathtaking sight. I can’t begin to describe the sight and the thunderous sound of this magnificent waterfall.