a wedding and a funeral!

Hello all!
First of all I want to apologize for not posting in so long. Yes I am still alive...and doing great! It seems that every time I am at the Jenkins house, I get caught up in socializing with the people here, especially the Rwandans. Imagine that! Pretty weird huh!
Anyway, enough sarcasm. Last weekend the Jenkins took rusty and onawa out for a weekend to Nyongwe forest because they had to leave this past friday if she still wanted to have her job when they got back and they wanted to be able to see some of the country outside of Kigali before they left. So the 4 of us who stayed at the guest house were allowed to make our own weekend plans. Saturday we basically just walked around Kigali all day looking for places our students had told us about. I was amazed with how well i'm learning to know my way around the city...or at least down town. We really enjoy saying hi to people as we pass them on the street in their own language. They are amazed and usually very impressed by our knowledge of their language way before we really get a chance to show them all we know. Only two men Ive met have not been impressed. The two men who lived in between us at the guest house for a few days seemed to only talk to us in a way that was testing our kinyarwandan...kind of like the pharisees were constantly testing jesus. However, one morning one of the men passed me as I was jump roping and I think at that moment I started to sense impression and respect in his attitude towards me. He said that jumproping is the best type of exercize because it exercises the whole body and even the mind. After that I had a very good conversation with both of them late one evening. We were speaking a mix of English, french and Kinyarwandan. they taught me a lot about the rwandan language and culture and I felt ver happy to have had this conversation with these men. I havent seen them since then because they left the guesthouse.
So much has happened this week. I dont have the time now to type it all and you probly dont want to read it all, so I'll summarize most of it and spend a little time on the end. I got my hair braided again on monday. then Tuesday we continued the english classes at Kist and SFB, dicussing mainly the parable of the two men building a house, one on a firm foundation and one not. Then on thursday we went to a little independent orphanage of only 10 children! that was amazing! we will return there later so I'll write more about that in the futere.
Now for the title. Saturday we went tot he wedding of a nephew to one of the church members here with the Jenkins, Justin rudasingwe. That was amazing! It started off in a Catholic church and then the ceremony was a at a different place in town a few hours later. We killed those few hours by exploring on mount Kigali! the ceremony was awesome! I'll need to describe more later, but for now I'll tell ya that it was a very interesting mix between a traditional african ceremoiny and a more modern ceremony.
Today we went to a funeral. The body of a relative (who had died in the genocide) of Charles, also a member here, was found. That was also very interesting and Ill have to tell more later because I should start getting off the pc now.
Pray for Charles (and thank God for him because he's an awesome man!) and pray for our main taxi driver jean and a security guard at Novotel who both feel weak in their faith.
Praise God! Imana ishimwe!