As usual with time it seems as if we've been here a lot longer while also being hard to believe it's only six months since we greeted our twelve pieces of luggage with relief at Abuja airport. It's been a steep and at times very frustrating learning curve but from our very first day we've been reassured so many times that this is the place the Lord wants us to be. We've seen so much evidence of prayers answered and although it's not always been easy we know that we haven't just been dumped in a strange land to fend for ourselves. God prepared the way and is continually sustaining us. Really we do know that the prayers of the people supporting us are being heard.
So far today has been a good one. Two reliable young men who live with their parents on the TCNN campus have arrived to work in the garden. Although their parents both have jobs at the college they also farm so I am extremely hopeful that wonderful things will be produced from the garden in the next year. As well as that, a plumber who actually knows what he's doing came to start work on raising the water tower that workmen who didn't care about doing a good job had built far too low. By the end of the week we should have hot water when we turn on the tap instead of a sense of disappointment and an extra water storage tank to put my mind at rest during the dry season. All we have to do in between is to survive without running water as the tanks are being installed.
As if that isn't enough, I've been introduced to another weird and wonderful fruit. Just seeing its spikey beauty makes me happy. It's actually a kind of cucumber, dismissed here as chicken food but worth getting just for the way it looks.
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