Once again

God provided, and the next night I had me driving with Tim J, Tim & Sarah G to the train station headed towards Kadium.
The Vice-Principal had allowed me to take Thursday off which was just as well, because I had to train back Saturday night and it wouldn't've left me much time if I'd trained Friday night and arrived Sat morning.
Tim had let me know the night before that there was going to be SS, so we'd called Hann to send the leftover worksheets from the Kurnool bw for the Kadium weekend. Thankfully Ravi remembered to bring them into the city, and I covered some of the same lessons as we previously taught. There just wasn't enough notification for any special activities.
Kadium weekend was lovely. I got to see Shubha's newborn baby, and so small she was. I don't remember seeing a baby that small, but maybe that was because it was prem? I don't know. Actually it's been a while since i've seen one, so maybe i'm forgetting!
Shubha and Andrew are calling the baby 'Nissy' from Ex 17 after the battle with the Amalekites. It's not in my bible, but mabye it's the original Hebrew. They were racking our brains for a biblical name to put with it, but it was quite a difficult name to add to another!
Gideon, Suma, & Joel turned up as well which was just lovely for me. I haven't seen them for over a year and Joel has really grown and is quite the little boy now getting what he wants! The best part about it, is that Suma has always been my translator at bible weeks, so it was a real blessing to have her there and work with her again. It felt like old times.
Sirisha turned up on Friday with Prisca and Titus. I love that family a lot. They've nicknamed me the Australian amma! I went with them during the spare time on Friday afternoon to visit their new place, and to give Prisca a story bible. For me, I felt like it would be a good thing for them to have, so that if they don't have sunday school, she can be read a lesson. The look in Sirisha's eyes when she saw it blew me away. Such complete gratefulness. She had wanted it for her child, but when she found out how much it was had put it back on the shelf. These lessons make you very humble.
So it was a real fantastic time to be in Kadium with such close Indian friends all in one place at one time.

Sarah and I trained back together on Saturday night. Guess who took us to the station, and wouldn't leave until the train had left the station? My little Rajahmundry family. It was late. But they always appreciate the company and see me off.

We were delayed by 3 hours at Vijahwada - (while I was for once sleeping peacefully, and didn't even notice it) so we missed out my only memorial in Hyd for the month of Feb which was a little sad and arrived just as everyone had gone.

Lunch was lamb cooked by Susie with roast potatoes and gravy. Followed by Icecream:-) :-) It's always such a treat to get a roast in India! The afternoon was spent muddling away talking to all in Sundry and preparing more goodbye's for Marj and Lionel who had been at the compound for 3 months.

They left, and left me alone in the mission flat.... but not for long.