Mills wrote on July 7, 2007.........

Haha we have had an interesting past couple of days for sure. I just wanted to tell you that ya'lls emails are so encouraging and really uplift Gabriel and I daily. The reminds of home you bring really do warm my heart. The team is just about to leave. Ha they just came in from talking to Theo, one of the missionaries who lives next door. They need to leave in 15 minutes to make it in time to catch a ferry across the Zambeze River. If they don't leave here in 15 minutes then they will be a day late.
Things are pretty hectic, but God is good.

The subject of the message refers to two things.
Soreness: They were a group of students here from Stellenbosch University in Cape Town. It is an Africans University. SA has 11 national Languages and Africans is one of them. It sounds so much like German. Ya'll should look into the different languages it is so interesting. Almost all Africans folks speak English though. There were like 15 girls and 5 guys on the trip and we just played Rugby with them. Rugby is so big here it is ridiculous. We played 5 on 5 and Gabriel and I were the most athletic
on our team, which is awful. Gabe is recovering from Malaria, and I'm not in great shape. Needless to say we got destroyed. No one got hurt so Praise the Lord.

Bearings: We brought up a trailer that the church owned which was a bit old, but carried all of our stuff, plus a lot of extra fuel. We had 2 blowouts on the way up and had to repair a busted bearing. We worked on it today and tried to replace the bearing, but couldn't find another one to match. They are leaving the trailer and the car is stuffed. We worked all afternoon and took apart a all of the trailers in Chiconono. They are having to leave the trailer here because its shot.

I ended up finishing this email Saturday morning. The team left last night in a great hurry, and kinda left some stuff. Nothing too important. Gabe and I were hoping we could pick up a phone or something. I am having to wrap this up quickly because Theo's wife is going to send our email while we are out and about today.

I love ya'll a lot, and look forwar dot hearing how things are going. Did you send out the email to the contacts? How is everyone?

for freedom,
Mills