A day in the life ...

It's hard to imagine life out of the rat race, let alone life in another country, so we thought we'd share a typical day with you to give you a flavour of how we're spending our time.

We wake up around 7.00, mainly due to the air taxi landing strip being right outside our bedroom!  We put a pot of coffee on, and within a couple of minutes Assie drifts through into our apartment with coffee cup in hand :)

We sometimes go on early street work along the beach, and sometimes straight to the group which meets at 9.00.  From there we'll get some territory, and assigned partners. First call lasts maybe 1.5 hours.  In that time you might do 4 or 5 doors, and speak to each householder for 20 mins or so.  Most of the territory does not have street names or house numbers, so its always fun working out where we need to go and how to find interested ones again!

Bro Tristan taking the ministry group

Our territory a couple of days ago was properties along the beach

After that we will usually take a break to get refreshments and shade - the heat and humidity are pretty tough going by mid morning. Then we'll do RVs and studies with whoever is in our cart for an hour or two.

Much needed iced coffee!

After ministry we'll head back to the apartment for lunch (or grab chicken, rice and beans from a street vendor down the road).

Chicken, rice & beans with coleslaw

The afternoons are our play time :)  We usually head to a dock for a couple of hours to swim/snorkel and soak up the sun, sometimes with other brothers and sisters. Sometimes Phil and Assie go fishing and see what they can catch for dinner.  Other times we go to the pool at our apartment.

Phil with two of his favourite things; beer and the GoPro!

One of the many docks that we spend afternoons on

Phil trying to catch dinner

Evenings are either study, meetings, chilling out at the apartment, going for ice cream or dinner with friends. Occasionally we will eat a fish caught by the boys :)

The English Cong this week

The English Cong this week

Eating Phil's catch of the day!

Enjoying ice-cream ... Lots of ice-cream!

As you can see, we're completely flat out, no time to think!!   ;) It's amazing how quickly you can adjust to a less stressful way of life.  Having time is such a luxury; suddenly things become more enjoyable - study, getting to know new friends, spending time with each other, ministry, meetings.  We only have 2 weeks of this luxury left so we need to make the most of it!!