We are still alive!

Hello all! We have been a few days without internet and are currently without water! We are all a little sticky and hot but there is one room in the place we are staying with air conditioning it is wonderful to be able to get out of the heat. Today was not too warm but yesterday was very warm, the girls all got sunburnt quite badly.
We have spent the last two days at Bon Beger and it has been a beautiful experience. It is strange sometimes that there is really nothing that we are doing persay. But we were talking today about what Doug, one of the speakers, had said to us at orientation about how often we are focused on being humandoings instead of human beings. Most of the reason we are here is to build relationship and love the people that we meet. So that means that here a lot of the time we stand around and talk or we sit around a talk.
We are finding a few things frustrating here. Yesterday we watched a movie that summarized most of the history of the Congo and the way that white people have oppressed the people of the Congo for so many reasources. The Congo has so many natural reasources! Rubber, coltan, diamonds, wood, uranium, coffee and coaco. But the Congolese people never get to experience the benefits of these reasources. I think this frustrates us because we donèt understand what our palce is in this stroy of the Congolese and the oppression that they are under because of so many greedy people, that just look after what they want and not whati s best for the coutry that they have walked into. But I could rant and this may get me in trouble so I will stop now.
Today I got to share my story with the women in the sewing school at Bon Berger. These women were amazing! I just told them that I had realized that God has made me perfectly and that he values me deeply and thinkgs I am precious and how He values them and thinks they are precious as well. Delphane, the doctor at Bon Berger, then went on to tell them how the were precious and that they really needed to believe that they are. He went into more but I do not understand Lingala, and it was explained to me in summary after. :)
Hereès a story that us girls enjoyed laughing about! The women asked me if I was married because I have a ring on my left hand. I told them that I wasnèt but that my boyfriend is here. They all got excited and asked me when I was getting married. I said I didnèt know and that they would have to ask him. They all laughed! Later the boys went on a tour of Bon Berger and they came to the sewing room. The women asked the boys who was married and they said none of them, then they asked the boys who was engaged and they again replied that none of them were. Then they asked who Bob was., well of course they were confused because Rob never refers to himself as Bob. We were all talking about it later and laughed. The people here are excited about marriage, they offered to find a Congolese man for Aurora when she said she was single. :)
Tomorrow we get to go back to Bon Berger and have dinner with the people who work there as well as give them the medical supplies we have brought with us. We are so excited to be able to bless them that way. After that we go to see some crazy monkeys at a park, apparently it will be quite the adventure! Saturday and Sunday we will spend with Jean-Baptise doing evangilism and going to his church. Finally! Im so excited for an African church service! Next week we start sand bagging to help to stop erosion. But who knows, these plans will probably change! I will stop writting now because I think I have taken up enough of your time! Hope you are all well at home and on your other trips around the world!