I feel at home...

Well I've been in Dar for a month now and I'm loving it. There was a time when I wanted to come home but God brought me through it and I was able to persevere. The Lord blessed me with a bit of a hard passage, but it helped. I've been journeying through the Old Testament and I'm currently in 2 Samuel.
Well I had just started 2 Samuel and David is finding out that Saul and Jonathan were killed in battle. And his reaction, "Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him. And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword...And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son..." (2 Sam 1:11-12, 17)
And this took me a back a little bit. For David mourned over his enemy. I mean he grieved over the man who sought after him and continually pursued him in hopes that he would find him and kill him. It was quite unfathomable to me. I began to think how I was just wanting to go home because I wanted to be with my friends and family. How could I do that? David is sitting here mourning someone who wanted him killed and I'm sitting here wanting to go home because it's hard to be away from everything familiar. I knew that if the Lord gave David a heart to grieve his enemy, He would provide me with strength to endure the hard times. And so the Lord gave me the ability to persevere through that night and the next day and here I am. The other day as I was driving a stick shift on the wrong side of the road in a third world country, I realized how much I feel at home here. It's now second nature to drive on the left side of the road and to be driving a stick shift. It's now second nature to be listening to conversations in Swahili and be able to understand what is going on. Language is still a challenge but it's getting better. I don't feel completely lost.
Praises:
I feel at home in Dar now
God has provided an accountability partner
I'm able to understand the language most of the time

Prayer Requests:
That I would continue to draw close to the Lord as I have plenty of time to do it with the students being at home during break.
We are going on a mission trip with some of the university students next week-for the teenagers that we will be sharing with, for the students as they prepare to share the stories in the Bible, and for God to show us His salvation.
That God would continue to prepare relationships for me as I won't totally start my specific ministry until Sept.