I have so much to tell you and so little time! I am sitting
in an internet cafe which is pretty cool, but the internet is very slow and not
sure how I feel about everyone looking at my computer screen 🙂 Now on to what
the team has been up to; One of our biggest ministries that we do is our Homestead ministries. It
is when we head up the mountain and just build relationships with the people
who live up there. My team goes all the way up the mountain and have been
really blessed by the people we have met. The family that really means a lot to
our team are the ones who live close to the top. They have 30 people who live
on one homestead. They asked us if we wanted to climb the mountain and help
them carry fire wood back down for them. We jumped on the opportunity and woke
up early to help them. They were so happy to see us that after we helped them,
they took us on a tour of the wildlife reserve and we saw some monkeys. When we
arrived back at their home, very tired and sweaty, they invited us to eat
dinner with them. It was definitely an interesting meal, but I ate all of it.
As if that wasn’t enough, they gave me the Swazi name Sabelo, which mean Chosen
One. So now everyone I meet yells “Sabelo!” (Word travels fast in the
neighborhood when you are the only Americans haha) I am loving every second of
being here and God is revealing more and more about Himself everyday! The team
is really coming together as well. We went to the Mbabane Hospital
today and visited the children’s ward which totally broke my heart. They say
that that is the hospital where people go to die and to see all of these
children, some of them disabled and abandoned, makes me wish I could do more.
We shared the hope of Christ with them and prayed for healing. Please keep the
team and the people in Swazi in your prayers. They are beautiful people and
have accepted me as one of their own in only 2 weeks. Thank you for your
prayers so far and for the encouraging comments! Love you and miss you all so
much!
in an internet cafe which is pretty cool, but the internet is very slow and not
sure how I feel about everyone looking at my computer screen 🙂 Now on to what
the team has been up to; One of our biggest ministries that we do is our Homestead ministries. It
is when we head up the mountain and just build relationships with the people
who live up there. My team goes all the way up the mountain and have been
really blessed by the people we have met. The family that really means a lot to
our team are the ones who live close to the top. They have 30 people who live
on one homestead. They asked us if we wanted to climb the mountain and help
them carry fire wood back down for them. We jumped on the opportunity and woke
up early to help them. They were so happy to see us that after we helped them,
they took us on a tour of the wildlife reserve and we saw some monkeys. When we
arrived back at their home, very tired and sweaty, they invited us to eat
dinner with them. It was definitely an interesting meal, but I ate all of it.
As if that wasn’t enough, they gave me the Swazi name Sabelo, which mean Chosen
One. So now everyone I meet yells “Sabelo!” (Word travels fast in the
neighborhood when you are the only Americans haha) I am loving every second of
being here and God is revealing more and more about Himself everyday! The team
is really coming together as well. We went to the Mbabane Hospital
today and visited the children’s ward which totally broke my heart. They say
that that is the hospital where people go to die and to see all of these
children, some of them disabled and abandoned, makes me wish I could do more.
We shared the hope of Christ with them and prayed for healing. Please keep the
team and the people in Swazi in your prayers. They are beautiful people and
have accepted me as one of their own in only 2 weeks. Thank you for your
prayers so far and for the encouraging comments! Love you and miss you all so
much!
