It´s really HOT here, just as I hear about the UK cooling down and moving into autumn, summer is on it´s way here. We really enjoyed the pool today, strange how quickly you can get used to having almost constant access to good things (how easy it is not to appreciate what we have). Tonight the temperature is expected to have a high of 29°C and a low of 26°C. HOT HOT HOT!

We went into the center on Saturday...sometimes a traumatic event, but this time it was good. Not too many millions of people and we managed to find what we needed. We also looked around a music shop, for our budding band members (Gideon on drums and Josiah on guitar), just to get an idea of quality and prices (not intending to buy anything)
Gideon was allowed to practice on an electric drum kit (worth £2,500!!!!), he had a great time, and impressed some of the workers in the shop. We want to try to get him some lessons here, it´s great to see an area that he excels in.

I just wanted to post an update on my crippled friend who I wrote about on the 23rd August as I have heard that some of you are praying for him. Firstly, he was and is real. He is 32 years old and lives close to The Lighthouse (casa Luzeiro). Maarten (the guy I work with) and I talked to the Discipleship Training School students about him as if he were imaginary and asked them what they would do, in a similar way to the post on 23rd August and they came back to us with some ideas so we then challenged them to go and do what they said they would do. How it ended up was a bit like this: The students went to his house and ended up talking with his entire family - mother, sisters, nieces etc - and prayed for them too but only one of the students stayed and talked with this guy. Maybe the others did not know what to do or maybe they thought that talking with the family was better. I do not know.
When he greets Maarten and I he gives us a BIG hug. He has very strong arms! We plan on taking him to a church soon, although it may still be a couple of months before we actually do that but we´ll see. We talk with him and continue to pray with him too and we have seen small changes in him already, as if he has some hope now. On a practical note, we are in the process of getting him into a literacy class in a local school as he would love to be able to read and write. The other things I wrote about previously remain the same for the moment but we expect a change in his circumstances soon.

I am tired and hot....actually more like exhausted. I (Dave) have just finished my first basketball session with a group of men from the community. They are of mixed ability, some playing very well and being able to do some amazing tricks and others playing errrrr not so well. But the aim is to put together a team and to disciple them. I think 1 or 2 of them are Christians but to be sure I do not know yet. We had great fun and I can see that this is going to be a great adventure with these guys.