Sept. 16^th & 17^th

On Monday and Tuesday we harvested spinach from the gardens and then delivered and handed them out at four of the carepoints. Nisela Farms has many small farms and three of them have given AIM small plots on which they plant and take care of the vegtables for us. The only thing we have to do is come and harvest them. This is a huge blessing for the children who only eat a bean and pap (similar to dry grits) meal every day.
 

Morgan, my teammate, in Swaziland. 

Sept. 14^th

I am in Nsoko and we are all settled in! Morgan and I are staying on a small Nisela Farm. We have a real toilet and a shower, so we are doing great! The power is iffy here and we have no internet. The missionary that we are working with, Erica, lives about five minutes away and she is kindly letting us use her internet.

 

So far we have toured all ten carepoints and met the D-team. The discipleship team in Nsoko is made up of four amazing people, Nombali, Thandi, Sanele, and Celimpilo. I can’t wait to work along side of them! Hopefully, if it does not rain, on Monday we will start our “job,” which I will be able to detail once we’ve done it. It is the very end of the winter here and it has rained most of the time we have been here, which makes carepoint visits challenging with all the mud.

 

 

 

 

 

  Well....I kind of forgot my password and couldn't get into blogger to post, sorry about the silence. Hehe :) The family leaves tomorrow for Alanta, Georgia, where we will be staying with my aunt. We will have some time to visit together before I fly out from there Monday evening. Can't wait to leave!

I am so excited!! God has blessed this trip in so many ways and I am so relieved to say that all my support has not only come in but it has exceeded the original amount! Thank you family and friends so much!!  Since there is extra, I am planning on buying medical supplies to take over. They will form individual kits for each carepoint in the Nsoko area with basic things like bandaids, neosporin and gloves.

 

 Psalm 55:22

Cast you cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

In one month I will be stepping foot in my beloved Africa!!! I am counting down the minutes until I get there.

   I realized the other day after riding my horse, how little patience I have. I get so impatient when my horse does not understand what she is supposed to do or when my sisters bug me about stuff. Going to Swaziland I can not choose the days on which I will be patient or be able to make excuses for my behavior.

   Yet I remember that in 2 Corinthians Paul is given a thorn in his side to show him that he has great weaknesses but through them God is glorified. In a similar way I have so little patience and yet I hope that God's power will be greatly evident in my life while in Swazi.

2 Corinthians 12:9 & 10

  But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.