After a not-so-long bus ride, we're safe in Swaziland, and have been for almost a week. Sorry, this is the first we've had internet! Thanks for all your prayers and encouragement with being tired. Honestly, I still am, but I don't doubt that there's purpose and God is so good. So thank you. I'll be posting a better blog next week, but I wanted to just give you some idea of our lives here.
-I am still living out of just my daypack. It's a challenge, but we've learned to live on so much less, and that's a blessing!
-We are cooking for ourselves again, similarly to Romania, since we have 2 teams living together. I finally can make some legitimate African Rice and Beans.
-WE HAVE BEDS. The girls are living in a circular house with a thatched roof, and we have bunks. So far we've only had a few flying cockroaches, a scorpion, and a snake.
-We have three-sided, no-door, hole in the ground, bathrooms. Love it.
-There's a tree out back where we've hung five hammocks, and it's the perfect break from hot African sun and ministry.
-At church on Sunday, we met Shanita Foster (wife of George Foster, NFL player for the Saints), as well as the Emmy Award winning director, Mark Jacobs, who are both born again Christians working with Shanita's organization Beyond the Game, bringing hope to Swaziland. We've worked with them a couple times. It's crazy :)
-Swazi, though desolate, is beautiful! We live in the mountains and it's incredible. We can see the Milky Way.
-The situation here is not anywhere near perfect, however present God may be. While going through a FOURTH grade school workbook, the spelling words for that week were: Rape, Fright, Imagine, Magistrate, and Abuse. WHAT?! The story they used to imput past participles was about a little girl's uncle's sexual abuse. And another story was about a python eating a one-year-old baby. I am still processing that.
-We visit Care Points and feedings, visit and encourage HIV/AIDS, TB, and Cancer ridden terminally ill patients, have team times, go to church, and do whatever else the Lord presents.
Thanks for your prayers. Swaziland needs them. We need them.
"And if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us? And if our God is with us, then what could stand against?"
