As the days go on things seems to hit me harder then the day before. Today we went back to Pastor Henrys house to continue painting, we got half of the house and the whole outside finished today, and we will be returning on thursday and friday to finish. The other half of our team went over to the bridging school (which i described in the previous post). Jon was working with this one 11 year old boy who had never held a pencil before, and it took him a couple hours just to teach him how to write the numbers 1 through 4. It's so sad to see kids at their age know so little about reading and writing who are at the age where they should be fluent in both subjects.
So we had our small disciple ship groups with the kids again today, and some of the prayer requests from other groups that I heard were asking for a better life or more food, because they hardly get any.
I had a girl in my group yesterday and today, and when i was painting the girl's orphan home today i realized that she lived in the house! Her name is Faith, and she is so inspiring to listen to. Her knowledge of the bible, and really understanding of God and how we get to heaven made my heart smile. She just gets it. And today we got to talk alot about prayer and what it is, and it was really great. I look forward to getting to know her more the next 2 days we're out there.
After discipleship, Glen took us to get some hot chocolate and coffee because it rained today and was very cold. Apparently it never rains this time of year either. Awesome....
So then we went to Paster Pete's Orphan house which is supported by Hands of Hope, and got to meet the girls there, and met 1 little boy who was there as well. The little boy they had found in a dumpster and had been abandoned as a infant, probably only 2 months old or less. However, he is the happiest boy I've ever met (My facebook profile picture is of him). One of the girls mom had died, and she was living with her step mom and dad, and her dad had moved down to South Africa, and her step mom basically told her she didn't wan to live with her anymore and kicked her out. So she lived on the streets for a couple months before getting taken to child services. And there was a baby, who is less then a year old whose both parents died of aids when she was only around 2 months old. So we had dinner with the kids there and had the most amazing meal we've had to far on this trip.
P.s. Jon and tyler just scared us AGAIN. tyler banged at the door... Jon caught me screaming on video.
Tomorrow we get to go out to the farm, which not an acutal farm but has 3 dome houses on it with kids! I'll update tomorrow
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