Meetings, meetings, and again…meetings (Sept. 10)

This Sabbath was quite filled with activity. Church here starts at 9:15 with Sabbath School and then at 10:00 we move into group study, which was very nice. Following that we head to the main service at 11:00. The service here is just like any other Adventist church service you’ve been to but here they do the service in English and the regional language of Telegu. The pastor’s sermon was quite rousing and the very good on present truth but there was a hilarious aspect to it. Whenever the main speaker would use emphasis with his voice the translator would exaggerate it at least 2 or 3 times over! It really kept you awake through the hour and a half sermon! We got out of church around 1:00 and headed over to eat our first meal in the cafeteria. Up to this point all our meals had been brought to our room in a 4 tiered metal lunch pale thing. It was nice to sit down in the café and eat with people our age and we got invited play volleyball with them during the week! I think they just want us for our height! :P

Sabbath afternoon we went on the Adventist Youth outing which was a hike to a nearby hilltop, which gave us our first view of Nuzvid and the surrounding area. Nuzvid is surrounding by very flat land but there are a few hills nearby that abruptly jut out from the flatland. Everything is very green and it’s truly beautiful when you see everything around. During the hike we stopped in a mango grove and had another hour and a half Adventist Youth meeting…Sabbath is a lot of sitting and meetings. But after that we headed back to the compound and walked to the store where we were able to purchase our internet connection device. I’m actually writing this on my computer and then I’ll post it later since we still haven’t gotten our device to work… (as of Sunday Sept. 11) but I’m sure we’ll get it working in the next few days.

Getting the device took some time so by the time we headed back to the hospital it was pretty late. So we tried unsuccessfully to get the internet to work and then headed to bed. Zach was exhausted so he went to bed around 10 but I forced myself to stay up until 11:30 just to get my body into the groove of the time zone. I think it’s working because I woke up at 7:00 this morning and felt pretty good!

Well, I think this is all caught up! A fair amount has happened since we’ve got here but nothing to terribly exciting. Hopefully I’ll have more interesting bits to share here in a few days! =) The plans for today are: Laundry, go shopping for a few more items and maybe a cold drink and then we may walk out to this technical institute that is just outside Nuzvid. Who knows what else the day holds for us!

Blessings!