We had an amazing Thanksgiving yesterday, though it wasn't shy of a few homesick tears on my behalf. We miss our family. Other missionaries say that the 3-4 month mark is difficult, and they are right especially when it is around the holidays. It was an amazing day nevertheless! We had so much to be thankful for. Daniel and I along with our housemates and best friends, Jonathan and Kayla, hosted 23 people around our table yesterday....some American friends, some Malawians, a couple from Holland and a guy from Zimbabwe. We didn't have turkey but chicken and all the other good stuff that we can find here that goes along with Thanksgiving dinner. We definitely were able to achieve that after Thanksgiving fully content feeling with all the food that we had present. We were so happy to be surrounded by our new friends...and able to give thanks to God together.
Another missionary raises chickens on his property...nice organic chicken. (Everything is organic here in Malawi.) And so he killed 4 yesterday for our dinner. I was glad to not have to do the killing this time around. The four of us did do the plucking, chopping and gutting. ICK. I had never done the gutting before...and I will save you the details but it was pretty gross. I feel like a better woman for it though. It was quite interesting to complete the full circle of the cooking....watching the chicken be killed, plucking the feathers, chopping and gutting the chicken, taking it home and seasoning it and roasting it...I felt pretty good about it all. It was pretty good too.
2 comments:
ICK is right! I was hoping your special treat would mean that you didn't have to do any of that gross stuff to eat your Thanksgiving dinner!! We do have MUCH to be thankful for...although I know it's got to be hard being so far away this year!!
I've never been so thankful for frozen turkey's in my whole life! You are a braver woman than me! Glad to hear that you had a memorable day! Praying for you guys this holiday season!
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