{"id":5738,"date":"2019-06-27T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T08:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2019-06-27T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T08:53:39","slug":"visiting-our-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2019\/06\/27\/visiting-our-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting our friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were welcomed royally to BB &amp; S\u2019s village and we were given the newly furnished guest room to stay overnight.\u00a0 The beds are brick frame, dirt and gravel filled, with a layer of heavy plastic, then cardboard\/very thin plywood, then a bedspread.\u00a0 A new type of bed for us!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5734\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5716\" style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-spider-mama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5716\" class=\"wp-image-5716 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-spider-mama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-spider-mama.jpg 378w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-spider-mama-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m thankful we brought a mosquito net &#8211; not pleasant to think of this mama spider dropping on my face in the night!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had brought along camping mats and bedrolls and even a mosquito net, so we were fine, but what about their everyday\/night existence?\u00a0 They cook over open fires, wash their clothes in the river,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-washing-clothes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5720\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-washing-clothes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-washing-clothes.jpg 337w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-washing-clothes-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>toil in their gardens under the hot sun,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5735\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-13.jpg 337w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-13-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>haul their drinking and cooking water from wells, and just plain make do with what they have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5736\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-19.jpg 316w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Nyabi-19-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The women from a couple of co-ops brought meals to share with us, though I\u2019m sure it was not easy to stretch what they had.\u00a0 While Roy &amp; BB went to another village, they came with 3 different breakfasts for me!\u00a0 May the Lord bless them!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=5738&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were welcomed royally to BB &amp; S\u2019s village and we were given the newly furnished guest room to stay overnight.\u00a0 The beds are brick frame, dirt and gravel filled, with a layer of heavy plastic, then cardboard\/very thin plywood, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2019\/06\/27\/visiting-our-friends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-meetings-with-m-friends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Visiting our friends - Danforths&#039; 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