Over coming your Fears!

During my last visit to England I had an interesting chat with a friend, he said, "I would be afraid to come to Africa, in case anything went wrong with my teeth!" Strangely enough, that was a fear that I had too a few years ago, until I had to have a tooth pulled out. After many weeks of traveling on African buses having treatment in a "back street" dentist for a root-channel filling, it did not work,and the dentist was so sorry that it was not possible to save my tooth he gave me a new tooth for free!! Something that would rarely happen in England! Hearing this and a few other stories, John Waddoups over come His fears and stepped out in faith to come and spend 3 weeks with us. John being in his 60's came with a heart to bless our children to make cars with the boys, and be a Babu (Grandfather) to all the children.



The typical handyman that he is, he saw many little jobs around the place that needed to be done, and quietly fixed, washed, drilled and screwed!

TIME OF TESTING CAME ! -During his first week, we had a big problem with the water pipe coming into the village, and our water reserve was quickly running dry, as we were still mixing concrete for our road. I had no idea that John was worrying that he may not survive, until we actually had no water for a day and he told me that he had been up all night thinking about writing his Will! I told him that here in Tanzania, it is normal for us to run out of water, and that there was no problem as we can get our lorry to carry some from afar. He was at ease again.

Only to find himself a few days later with Malaria! It comes in many forms, and John got it bad for three days. Truly it is not to be feared, but if you do not know that is as common as flu here, it is a bit of a shock. John recovered well, and has gone home with a big African experience to tell his family.

Big thanks to Sarah, John's daughter and Johns local SVP for sending gifts with him. these gifts will be going toward our next project! (most likely Bio Gas! we will see) God bless you!

We miss you Babu John!