Well in Bangladesh the weekend starts on Friday. We got to go to church. It was cool to go to church in another country; I was surprised the whole service was in English. They said they were going to play some new songs and they were songs that I have sung before. It was amazing to see how strong their passion for God and worshipping Him is. The youth led worship, so it will be interesting to see how worship is different next week.
We got free time for a lot of the day. I played cards, talked and just hung-out, which was much needed. When us girls were talking, we realized how weird of a place this is for gender roles to come up. Then we got to have Bible study with the BSFB persons. Andrew got to talk about Heaven. For most of the time following I had no idea what was being said. But it was cool to hear passionate prayers in another language. The group also prayed for us. It was cool that they all prayed in Bengali (except Peter). We had no idea what they were saying, but that is like prayer from him, both are good prayers to God for you even though you don’t know what is being said.
Then we all went upstairs for tea and sweetbread. I talked with a few BSFB people but mostly Jotti, Nohemiah, and Elias. They are the staff who have been helping us. Then we had a somewhat late dinner. Then I got to do my first load of laundry (YAY), all hand washed. Then I went to bed.
Oh I totally forgot, before laundry but after dinner a bunch of us sat around and talked about boy and girl relations and how they view certain things (this is what I mean by gender roles). Then we played cards until 1 am. This was so much fun but a bad idea because we could call home starting at 7am, but that’s life!
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