Emotionally exhausted.

Today was a har day, emotionally. We woke up this morning and got to go see the Westgate Haven girls to finish painting their backyard and just hang out with them. At last, we had finished painting and just got to hang around for a while. I had layed down for a while because my back was starting to hurt from all the bending from painting. So we played a lot of ninja fruit, which the girls LOVE! It was nice to just sit and not have an agenda and hang out.

After we left the Westgate Girls we went to Mbare which is one of, if not the poorest part in Harare. It was so devestating to just drive through. There were literally so many people in such a small amount of space. Broken homes, Huge apt buildings with just broken windows and weeds growing everywhere. people just standing around, mostly because they have no job and nothing to do. Kids playing in teh street, one boy, maybe 1 or 2 years old, who Amanda D. saw jsut sitting on the side of the street playing with pieces of glass and there was really no one around him. The amount of poverty in this place was just astonishing. I tried to take some pictures which i'll post later, but they are very against pictures in most of this country. Either they don't want to be portrayed as very poor to the rest of the world, or they will demand money from you if you want to take a picture of them. And that's not just in Mbare but in the whole country of Zimbabwe.
So we did some shopping in Mbare before heading home to eat left over of Jen's soup from last night, which was EVEN BETTER then the night before.
After dinner we went back to the Westgate house for the last time. We all sat down and had some of our team, and some of the Westgate girls share their testimonies and their dreams of what they want to do and how God is working in their lives, which was awesome. I could sit and listen to those girls forever. Then Jon and Glen gave them some encouraging words and we ended by eating chocolate cake.
After that came pictures and smiling faces before we had to say goodbye and the tears came. They all made each one of us a cards thanking us for coming, and sang us a song, which was awesome. I love to hear those girls sing, it brings all of us on our team such joy. So then came the goodbyes along with many tears. It's definitely hard to have to say goodbye. We were the first actual team from Westgate to go out and see them. Steve and Kaivan had gone out at different times, but we were the first of a whole team to be able to go out and get to know eacn and every one of these girls, and it was such a blessing. Those girls will forever have a special place in my heart.

Now we are home, and pretty exhausted and it's definitely time to sleep.
We are going to Hifield Nazarene church in the morning where Jonny T will be preaching!