This blog is dedicated to the city that stole my heart and broke it when I had to leave.
After a hard month in Swaziland my team and I needed a good month. Like most people my team and I were expecting Port Saint John’s to be a beautiful beach town like you see on tv well….not quite. Lets just say my team was 7 out of the 20 white people that live there haha. Most of the people speak English, but natives speak Xosa. Xosa contains clicking of the tongues for certain letters, which is a very beautiful language. Xosa is said with a click for the x then you say osa.
The schools in our town have a good reputation, so many parents try to send their kids there even if they live hours away. Som kids even live on their own at the age of 16 just to go to school. Our ministry host takes in kids who have a hard home life and need to go to the schools, so we lived with 4 girls and 12 boys. They were from grade 10- grade 12. In the mornings I would wake up around 4:30 have quiet time then st 6 I would make breakfast for the kids. Then around 745 I went to the junior school and taught a grade 1 class, then in the afternoons I would hangout with the kids and try to pour Jesus into them. Then around 4 I would help make dinner for the kids which would usually take hours, because there is only stove tops no oven or microwave. Then I would clean the dishes, so I would normally go to bed around 9 and be every exhausted. If you have ever lived with 12 teenage boys then you know how hard it is to keep a clean kitchen. Although I was tired most of the time I loved every mintue of this month. I felt like the mom to the kids and it makes me highly consider doing this kind of ministry in the future
i also fell in love with my grade 1 class. I got to teach them how to count to 100 in English and how to read in English. They were the cutest and most well behaved 44 kids, yes I said 44 kids in one class.
We also did do to door evangelism, which was my favorite. I got to lead three people to Christ which I had never done before. I loved it and each time I just wanted to keep going to houses all day long.
There is so much more to say about this month, but I can’t describe. Thank you for your prayers and support. We are heading to Asia now, where we are supposed to have real showers!! It’s been over two months since I have had a real shower or slept on a really bed and we might have an oven:)
