What a wonderful village! The people are so friendly, and curious. We went to Ibe today with Luisa, a friend of Eli. Luisa and her husband, Memli, have been visiting this village for a number of years and have developed a group of new Christians there and have built a church. It was deliciously cool with its cement floor today, as we arrived in the humid heat. None of the women spoke English, but all were excited to do their first block! So, we set about doing it in teams, and they seemed to catch on. Children wandered in, so did a cat. It was all so friendly, and easy-going. The other residents are ethnically Muslim; perhaps they will share piecing, then quilting, with them. Luisa has told me she will see if she can use quilting as a tool for evangelism - and will send pictures of anything that comes of our visit.
Genta was unbelievably helpful - working hard to help the ladies with the tools. The pictures from this morning were from yesterday; the pictures with this post are from today. Tomorrow we go to Gerdec with Adi - google it and you will find it is the site of a disastrous munitions dump explosion in March, 2008. So, it will be interesting to meet the ladies there. The pictures don't seem to be downloading. Could it be that there is a glitch in the system during the late hours of the day? I'll try to send the pictures tomorrow.
It seems that there might be a future for quilting in Albania - wouldn't that just be wonderful?
So glad you had some relief from the heat and thrilled with the success of trip thus far!
ReplyDeleteSaw Abbey and Paul this eve for a few short minutes. David sprung me from my cell here and it felt sooooo good. Saw Corbin (looks great) all smiles. Told him to hang in another week or two and we'll have him over for a meal. Tomatoes are slow slow slow. Blessings to ya'll A