Just one of those things

The second phase of homesickness has set in. Which is ironic because I only have less than a month before I leave. But I'm passing the 8th month & I've never experienced anything like this while being here. The irritableness, being done with hearing the cat calls of being called Mzungu, being harassed on the daladala, walking up our long hill after a long day walking in service, not just being able to jump into an airconditioned car & being dropped off at the door. But no matter how you feel or how long you deal with these feelings, Jehovah is always there. He always has your hand even though you may not see it as quickly as you want, its not according to your time. I had always thought of this as a job, we have a job to preach & at a job you need to make sacrifices. But it wasnt until yesterday, when it hit me how much it is my job. Pathetic I know. But then I thought about it more. How many days do you work? Normal people is Monday-Friday, 5 days. What do you have to deal with? Annoying customers, rude co-workers, hard core boss. Any job you do, whether hard physical work or work that just kills the brain mentally, you get exhausted in one way or another & at times you just get sick of it. 
Yes with our work we get tired, maybe disheartened. My return visit wasn't home again today, that householder really screamed me off his porch. If you are in a foreign language field you know the frustration of driving hours & miles to different studie's houses & them not be home or the exhaustion from canvassing & not finding one person who speaks Swahili. Stick with it. Because Jehovah will always always give you something to bless if you keep enduring. Always find something every day to be happy about. Today we were super tired, we were doing door to door in a new territory. You hardly ever meet anyone with opposition here. Every door people are welcoming & will talk & talk. Time goes slow here so it just felt like I had walked all day & it was only a few hours. We finish up the territory, start heading out, not really sure what road would lead us back but we just picked one & started walking. Decided to do one last house before we headed out. A young girl was in the yard hanging up laundry. We approached her & she didn't respond to us. She was deaf. We started using the only sign language that we learned. Its nice because sign language is so simple its easy to learn & understand. Then I talked to her parents. They were excited that we could communicate with their daughter. They get across what they can tell eachother but thats the extent of the communication. So we asked permission to study with the girl in TSL (Tanzanian Sign Language) & offered to teach the mom as well so that she could communicate with her daughter. What are the chances? I love it!! I love the unexpected turns where you can see Jehovah's hand. Yes you always have ups & downs & needgreating isn't for the faint of heart. Not everyone can do it & that's okay. There's plenty of work to do in Jehovah's organization. But I wouldn't of given this experience up for anything.