An intersting observation

Something very cool happened yesterday. Mushota walked into an internet cafe yesterday and was intrigued to find a young man selling a Baha'i book in the store. She asked him about it and they got to talking, turns out he had heard about the faith and was very interested, so much so that he had intended to try and learn more about it via the internet. So she told him she was a Baha'i and invited him over to her house to talk more about the faith. So Kawawa and I are going to meet him and talk with him tomorrow morning at Mushota's. I'm very excited.
So Karen and I were talking about it tonight, and how other people around Kabwe have heard of the Faith and they are aware that there are Baha'is and it seems our presenece is becoming more and more known. And so she had an interesting observation that I noticed too, which was that it seems far more effective when Zambian Baha'is interact with thier fellow Zambian's and tell them about the Faith, show them how Baha'is are. Because when they see us foreignors, we're already foreign and somewhat strange in thier eyes, so they expect us to be something strange and different than what they're used to. But to see fellow Zambian's that they grew up with, they know their grandmothers and used to live next door to thier uncles, and see them as Baha'is then they become intigued and say 'You're a Baha'i? What is that?". Rather than to us where they would say "You're a Baha'i? Ohh ok. I'm a maize farmer". So it was noticed that the word of Baha'is in town hadn't really started to spread until Mushota and Chuungu moved to Kabwe. Its an interesting thing, and I think about how that tool can be used back home in our own communities. But we only just discussed it tonight and m thoughts haven't cooked fully yet. ^^

So I have a few more pictures that I managed to get off my laptop and onto this computer which has internet, but I can't upload them now because I suppose the connection is too poor or something. But just letting you know more pictures are coming soon. Just hang in there man!