SEMINARY GRADUATION LUANDA

December 29, 2012

The last of the Seminary/Institute Graduations

was held in Luanda at the home of Justin the

Institute Teacher. Sister Okila is the Seminary 

teacher and she was also there.

It had rained hard all night and into the morning.

We met President Okila in Majengo and he showed

us the way to Justin's. We took a "short cut" over a

VERY muddy, slick road!! Thank goodness for

4 wheel drive today!! Several times we slid as 

though we were on ice!! 

The soil here is straight clay and very slick!!

Justin met on the turn to his place and had us park the

truck in a neighbor's compound at the top 

of the slope to his home. He didn't think we would make 

it up in the mud once we got down.

Some young teen aged girls carried down the 

boxed of refreshment and books!!

This is the top of the trail leading down to his home.

You can hardly see the slope but it was sharper in a few feet.

Some of the students during refreshment.

We were in a small room surrounded with furniture and

centered with two coffee tables.

Some of the students sat in the 

curtained off area you can see in the back.

More students.

This is looking at the side of the home. There is a small

trench for water to run off. The house is made of mud.

Justin and his wife in the front of their home.

You can see where the yard in front of them slopes up 

a little and their home is level.

In the trench around the home several of the girls who

came rinsed their feet off in the 

small puddles that had formed there.

Under this tarp are brick that Justin has made and air dried

to make a new home. They are covered so they don't get  

too wet and break apart. It takes 10,000 to make a home.

They make the brick, air dry them then build a kiln from

mud and with a wood fire they fire the brick.

Quite a process. They have to buy fire wood for

the fire and fire wood is costly because there is

becoming a shortage of it.

When we made it back to where we had parked the

truck a woman stuck her head out from her 

door to see who was there. 

Justin said she was 100 years old.

I asked to take her picture and she was

very happy that I would do that!!

This is the trail of mud leading out of 

Justin's home compound!!

Thank goodness we all made it OK!!