This week I was able to go with Jeannie, a missionary here, to a village for a get-together of local health workers. They were putting on skits about health issues, listening to a message of God's love, and building a mud oven together for one of the workers in that particular village. It is a day I will not soon forget. The images of the women in their very colorful outfits, with much laughter that accompanied their time together, the children that kept having to be shooed away as they would creep closer to see and hear it all, and the effectiveness of building a mud oven which so simplifies the cooking and efficiency of wood burning. This mud oven is made out of clay, around 3 rocks which they stand up first, and measure the pot to see if it fits on top. Then they build the wall around the rocks with the clay you see in the picture. This keeps the heat in much longer, with much less wood having to be used. To be not just passing through this town, but to actually be in it while life was going on gave me a whole new perspective (once again) on all my conveniences back home and how I take simple things like running water and turning your element "ON" for heat (no need to gather fire wood) SO for granted.
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