The last two weeks have been amazing. My team decided to go to a place called Nsoko. We knew that we wanted to do ministry in that area, so we went.
The time started by visiting some care points. A care point is a place set up to educate the children of a certain area and feed the children. It helps out the families and guarantees at least one meal a day for the children. We visited 5 care points our first day in order to decide where we were going to stay.
I really liked the last care point and so did Sarah. Our team had previously decided to live at homesteads while in this area. We split into pairs. Sarah and I ended up going to MButu(not sure of spelling). The day we arrived, we felt very welcome. The family came over and helped us set up our tents. It is a little harder to set up my tent with 4 people helping. We got a nice meal and some tea that evening.
Everyday Sarah and I would walk hand in hand with two of the children at the homestead to the care point. The part that Sarah and I did not know that would happen was we were going to teach. This was such a chaotic time for me. The room was so small and crammed with more children than should have been in there. We had no clue as to what the children knew and we did not know any SiSwati. It made it for an interesting 3 hours each morning. I became a lead singer and tried to learn the songs the children knew. I learned that songs made the time go by a lot faster also. We would get our morning pap and a noon meal before leaving for the day.
The afternoons consisted of reading. I got some down time to catch up on some reading that I wanted
to do. The evenings would consist of being with the family. Thankfully the family spoke English and so we could ask them questions. I really enjoyed the time.
The family was super concerned with our health and well being. We were taken care of completely. I even was forced to bath once a day. I bathed more at the homestead than I had for a long time. I even got a stomach ache one day. The whole homestead knew about it and Edith, our gogo, helped me out with some medicine that helped me out.
I will miss our homestead. We got to see some of the people this weekend. It was so great to be able to just have them be so happy to see us. When I think of Swaziland, I will always think of the family.
