MozamWeek

I have a hard time keeping up the pace of "real" work when my kids are home from school. This past week was their half-term break. This coincided with the national elections in Mozambique, so there was plenty of reason to leave paperwork behind and find something else to do together. I have a good friend here in Tete who is blessed with a Mennonite background (like mine) and an air-conditioned kitchen (unlike mine). So when I got a text asking if I wanted to "do donuts" during half-term break, I knew it would be a great chance for some healthy mom-and-kid activity. (In my childhood dialect of northern Indiana, "doing donuts" can refer to "cutting kitties" -- spinning cars around on icy parking lots or the like.) She suggested  this recipe  which she has used in the past. I've not made donuts since I was a little girl in Indiana, as far as I can remember. At least not any that were as memorable as grandma's. Here is my photo documentat

lufoyi... love...  penu ndiribe lufoyi... but if I don't have love... ndine lini cinthu... I am nothing... I Corinthians 13... the famous Love Chapter that is read a weddings all over the world, every week... is translated into Nyungwe. The consultant  check  is underway for Paul's first letter to the church at Corinth. Things are going well. There were a few days when the team stayed to work through just another verse and spent an extra hour discussing it. Chapter 7 was tough. Chapter 14 can get tricky. Chapter 13 is pretty much done, at least the first seven verses I begged Mikael to share with us for this post. Here are maybe the most quotable parts... 4  Love is patient,   love is kind.           4  Lufoyi limbapirira, lufoyi limbakomera m'tima.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.       Lufoyi liribe njiru, limbasamwa lini ayai limbadzikuza lini.      5  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,