Inside the church
Woke up at 8am. Ate CoCo puffs for breakfast. A truck picked us up to give us a ride to church. Church started at 9am. It started with a Bible study which was one hour long. Following, service started and was an hour and a half long. After church, everyone goes outside and forms a line. Then, each person walks down the line and shakes hands with everyone.
Anna-Maria's Restaurant
After church, we mingled with some of the other members and then hopped a ride into town. We stopped at ShopRite, the local grocery store. We bought lunch here and then ate it across the street. I also bought my bus ticket to Lusaka for the start of my journey back to the US. The ticket was 110 pin (K 110,000). To make the denominations of Kwacha easier to handle, people call K1,000 one pin. We continued to walk around Mansa and stopped at a restaurant, Anna-Marie’s Paradise, where we got something to drink and relaxed in the shade and read.
Church service started again at 4pm. Most people go to church twice a day on Sunday. The serviced lasted until 6pm. We then hitched a ride home.
Power outage
Once we got home, we quickly realized that the power was out. I dug my headlamp out and Ruth lit candles. John went outside and cooked some dinner for us using his kerosene burner. We then watched a movie on Ruth’s laptop, The African Queen, and then went to bed.