Humble yourselves!

Hello everyone from Africa! I am still alive and well! I normally had planned to write these on Sundays which I still might write one this week on Sunday but for some reason I felt the need to write one today. We have been spending our time in Manzini this week which is another city in Swaziland. We spent the first part of the week just walking around and exploring the city. Today we went to a bible study where many of the missionaries go to and a few Afri-Kans go to. I just wanted to write about that today and say I was impressed by this bible study. The women who were part of the small group were so transparent with each other. It was so refreshing. The woman who was assigned I guess to lead the group today just opened up at the end of the message and began to share a struggle that she had in her life. The women of this group just sat and listened to her and one at one point went and sat with her and began to comfort her heart. The other women began to give this lady encouragement and bits of truth from the Word. It was just so refreshing and cool to watch. It was not a bible study though it was full of missionaries about missions but it was honestly about the Word of God. It was just so cool because in 2007 I went to a Passion event which was there I began to really feel the Lord calling me into missions. I otld the Lord I would go anywhere for Him but Africa. It was a video from this Passion it was the Beth Moore portion of the speech that we watched but still it was so cool. I thought what are the odds that we would use this video and the video would come from an Afri-Kan lady here not even an American lady. It was just so cool how the Lord worked that out. During the study it was so cool because we began to talk aobut how we have many plans in our lives but yet we need to humble ourselves to God’s plan. Beth moore said something very profound she said there are many times the Lord will call us to something and it will be something out of our comfort zone and it is not going to be something which is easy and many times it is something we just have to keep pressing on to get through. It was just so refreshing to hear that. How we need to learn to humble ourselves or humus which means earth. She said it meant we needed to place our knees on the earth and start praying from there and realize who we are in the Kingdom of God. It is just real cool because this week I have also been learning about how wretched we are but yet the Lord still pursues our hearts. We are filthy sinners but yet the Lord still pursues us to righteousness. It is just so cool to me how cool God is.
This has nothing to do with what I was talking about but after the study we went to a gas station. At the gas station here they have gas attendants and the gas attendants fill up your gas for you. Then they check the tire pressure of your tires and place air in them if they are needed. Then they also use the window cleaner and clean your windows. I thought to myself how cool is this! I also got to try some chocolate from here today and it was amazing can I just say! This is just a little bit of information I wanted share of something I saw today.

Why is Africa so cold?

Hello everyone!
I am alive and well in Africa! No I have not been eaten by any wild animals or anything else which would eat me here! no, I am not burning up nor do I have a nice tan yet it is actually quite the opposite here. We are in the mountains which by the way is absolutely gorgeous especially when the sun sets and rises. This pass week has been a week of learning the culture and starting to learn the basics of language. We learned things such as the proper way of handshakes and greetings. We also learned that they do not date here but you have special significant others that you are seeing which I thought was quite interesting. We also got to go out into the city. Swazialnd is known for there beautiful candles and glass and we got to go to both a candle and glass factory and watch them make both of these items. It was really cool and it is really pretty! We also have gotten to go to the market which was quite interesting in itself! Then to top the week off we went to a Swazi church yesterday. It was really interesting though i did not really understand much becuase it was all done in Siswati. My partner and I got to go to the front of the church and introduce ourselves and the work we are doing here to the church with a translator of course. It was really cool because the church just meets in a little cinder building. You sit on wooden benches for church and the place was very full and it a service full of clapping and singing. These people can sing. It was really cool. The church went for like hours, we got there around 11 and did not leave til like 2. It was really good. Well, I have to go for now! Thanks all you for your prayers and encouragement!