Wednesday

                                           Wednesday, yesterday, was a great day...




Playing Water-Balloon Toss

 

  I woke up, finished a large amount of school, meaning we will be finished soon! Afterwards we went to the Center, definitely one of my favorite things to do here, just sitting with, loving, and playing with the beautiful kids there.

   We played games, held babies, and just hung out. After this we went on a home-visit to deliver a talking bible to a woman that had suffered a stroke and could no longer read hers.

   It was a complete and total answer to prayer because mom had visited this beautiful lady last week and felt a need in her heart to give her a talking bible, but had no idea how. She had prayed that an oppurtunity would arise to be able to give her a talking bible.

   At the moment we have a team of people here, one of which brought five of these talking bibles in SiSwati!!!



   Elise, the woman who brought the bibles, Mom, Dad, Jake, Phindile (one of our ministry partners) and I, piled into our van and headed up to Mahangeni to visit this woman.



   Nohlonhlo is her name, which means Fortunate. We arrived, pulled out the bible, Elise gave her a quick how-to and then she listened, and listened, and listened.




Nohlonhhlo listening to her bible

 

   She just sat there and basked in the glory of her new talking bible. Her brother, who lives with her, did all the talking, and expressed the thanks, but Nohlonhlo listened.

   Although she didn't say hardly a word while we were there, the bible was never once turned off, even as we prayed for her and her brother.

 

   But, of course, this story couldn't be finished with that. It is a beautiful story that ends with a classic Swazi ending.



  Fortunate's brother was so grateful for the new bible that he insisted on giving us something in return. What, you ask, did he offer us? A chicken. That's right, a big, fat rooster.



   He proceeded to tell Jake and I to chase it down and catch it, which, I promise you, we did try! We tried for probably 20 minutes, but alas, failed. Fortunate's brother caught it in about 3 seconds and handed it to dad.

   We brought it over to the Center and put it with Pastor's chickens. We will eat it Friday. Wow!

 


Bible Study-Wednesday's greatest feature



   7:00 brought our weekly bible study with our South African friends, always the highlight of my week.

   Part of our bible study is sharing something we are thankful for, and something that is our greatest need. I was thankful for a great Wednesday, and my greatest need was to have more and more and more Wednesdays.

   God has a beautiful way of turning homesickness into realizing you are home.

 Thanks for a great Wednesday, God.