Day 43: Cake--Asenemaso

The events today has allowed me to pinpoint he best day of my seven weeks in Ghana: today. Last week, Amanda and I had an idea of giving the women something to show the love we have for them. We are so humbled by their gifts that we wanted to share in the generosity. Even if they hadn't given us anything, our love for them would still be the same. So we thought it through and came to the conclusion that cake would be a great thing to share with them. Originally, we wanted to make them an entire meal but then we decided that something sweet would be a treat.

Yesterday, Amanda, Vida, and I spent most of the day in the kitchen, preparing the cake. It was nothing fancy, just plain vanilla cake, but it took us HOURS to make it. This reaffirmed my ill skill and desire at being a housewife (let's just say it's not my calling). Vida did most of the work and she guided us from making too many mistakes. But we were still worried about the final result. When the cake was finished, it tasted pretty good, even though it was crumbly. We made three mini-cakes and three big cakes in the shape of hearts, yet we were anxious that it wouldn't be enough because we never got a concrete number of the women. But when we got there, all our fears melted away.

Pastor called all the women and their children over and we began slicing the cake. The women were delighted at our gift and said it was delicious! Before serving the cake, I told them that we wanted to give them something because we love them so much. After the feast (we even got around to seconds), one of the women said that even though our gift was small to us, it was big to them. I'm glad we can all see eye to eye. The women were so grateful and you could see a brightness in them. Their smiles were radiant not because of us, but because we were sharing and enjoying Christ's love.

I think today was a reincarnation of Jesus feeding the 5,000. We were discouraged at the amount of food we brought, but we fed everyone twice! And we even had some left over for Pastor and Vida. Talk about a miracle.