MUMU

As promised, above is a picture from my porch during our morning prayer time. Believe me, this does not do it justice.

On Tuesday we all went into the village to attend a mumu. That's where you dig a pit, start a fire, heat up a bunch of rocks, put tons of veggies (mostly potatoes) and meat in, cover it all up with banana leaves and then cover that up with dirt. It's like 400 degrees in there (literally, they measured it once). So we get there and the boys and girls are separated. The boys sit around and do nothing, while us girls peel a bazillion potatoes and cooking bananas (which look like a banana, but smells like a cucumber, has the color of cantaloupe on the inside, and tastes like a potato). Sadly, I missed most of the festivities because of a stomach pestilence that has been plaguing our group for the past week, and it was apparently my turn to get it. I at least had the opportunity to taste a little bit of lamb that had been cooked inside of bamboo with a bunch of greens (kumu) - and that was very delicious. Here a couple of pics:

This is part of the pile of kaukau that we peeled, along with the meat from the bamboo on a banana leaf. And the next one is a picture of the actual mumuI will be out of touch for the next several days, as I will be on my "side-trip". I leave tomorrow morning to spend 4 days living in a remote tribe with a missionary family. I'm so looking forward to the opportunity to go tribal, and worship with believers there! We've learned several worship songs in Pidgin so that we can sing with them. Can't Wait!