The day started out in the usual way.
Chasing thoughts inside my head of what I ought to do today.
The plan was for me and a June Racer to take a young girl with a foot infection to the hospital.
The information we got was not entirely accurate and so by the time we got the girl and I called to find out where to take her I realized it was a lot farther then I had planned.
Actually about an hour and a half farther than I had planned. We ended up going to a place called Siteki pronounced Staggy. For some weird reason and part of the problem of miscommunication. I thought it was a completely different town. We took the public transportation combis or vans. And arrived at the hospital at about 2 aclock. We went and checked in the little girl whose name is Tandele.
I looked at the waiting room and went back to the receptionist and said “are all these people waiting.” And she replied “YA”
I then said “So we have to wait until all these people see the doctor.”
And the lady said, “Ya.”
I at that point realized this was going to be a long day. And it was we waited and we waited. I kept an eye on the clock realizing that it was getting later and later. It is funny how sitting somewhere doing nothing still takes time. And so I finally realized that she was not going to see a doctor anytime soon and we would have to leave a half hour ago to get home before night. I immediatly sort of went into what am I going to do now mode. So I am thinking through possible scenarios. It would not be the best thing to travel in the dark, but it wouldn’t be the worst thing. And the other option would be to find a place to stay and go back in the morning. We finally get to see the doctor at about 4:30 and the doctor says oh you need to see another doctor in another part of the hospital so we get a number and we go and sit in another waiting room. I now realize as I look at the 10 people in front of us, one with a broken foot another with who knows what. And I say we are not getting out of here ever. Finally we get into see the doctor at about 6;30 and we have to get an xray which puts us in another waiting room waiting for ever. WE are sitting around and I realize now that the doctor told us that we would have to come back in the morning no matter what. I now know that we have to find a place to stay. So I am running through options in my head when this women walks in. We have a brief hello and she goes up to check in a couple of patients. I over hear her talking and she mentioned she was a missionary. She was at the hospital because a truck full of workers from the farm had got into an accident and needed to be checked out. A light bulb goes on in my mind and I decide to go talk to her.
Her Dini and her husband Vieuws are missionaries from South AFrica. They had been in Swaziland for a couple of years working at a feeding scheme and school for about 250 kids. They also help out as the receptionists at a B&B called Mabuda Farms. I asked if she knew of a place to stay after telling her our whole situation and she says we can go and stay at the B&B. She was so helpful. Mrs Pons the owner of the B&B with her Husband Dr. Pons who is the Eye doctor at the hospital. Brought one of the other people that was in the accident in a little later. I went back with her to get everything situated and then Dini would bring the mother and the girl back after their XRay. Mrs Pons was so lovely and helpful. She went out of her way to make sure we had everything we needed. She gave us a basket full of food, eggs, bacon, bread, jam, yogurt, apples, oranges and we had tea and coffee. And she even gave us toothpaste
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The mother and the daughter came soon after and it was a little weird for them because they had never slept out of their house before. We had a wonderful meal. And it was amazing to see how the Lord had his hand on us the whole way through.
The next morning I went with Vieuws to see the ministry center where they have all the kids it was incredible. There was a team there of 65 from Orlando Florida and Capetown building a garden for the kids. So that was a great experience.
Tandele the little girl ended up having a infection from a nail that had spread to the bone and could have gotten really bad and spread up her leg. but we got the medicine and she should be fine.
Yesterday just to add to the Lords funny changing of plans. We had to go to a school meeting in the morning and then we were going to play volleyball in the afternoon. We did not realize what the school thing was til we got there and realized it was a project done by one of the princes of Swaziland with a school from england. So the leader of the school from England invited us to go to a presentation at 12:30 to get to meet a bunch of the princes and princesses from Swaziland. So we hurried and canceled our volleyball game and went to this presentation. We got to meet quite a few of the royal family. One fun meeting was Princess Pashu. She is going to College at Biola in California and she is a strong Christian. It was fun just chatting with her about what we were doing and about life. So I woke up planning on playing volleyball and ended up meeting my first Princess.
Well that sure was fun.
