It’s a Monday afternoon and I am sitting on a boulder, on top of a mountain with the best view in all of Swaziland. This month we are at an orphanage called El Shaddai just outside of Pigs Peek, Swaziland. There are 40 orphans here on top of this mountain, aged from 1 year to 18. This month we are paired with one orphan to do whatever we lead called to do. We have work projects in the morning and then we work with our kid in the afternoon, after school. Our whole squad is together this month so we have a lot of opportunity to get to know our squad mates and become a family working together for the kingdom.
This month I am paired with Theo. He is a great kid, 11 years old in the 4th grade. He is very smart and likes to play soccer and on the jungle gym. He is very observant and likes to sit back and people watch. He is quiet but not shy ad he has the best smile of any child in Swaziland. I will be helping him with homework when I can and he needs me to, taking him to chapel, and just playing with him. I hope to show him a few trade skills with fixing a couple boards on the jungle gym.
God is doing great things in Swaziland. He is working in me and really has grown a hunger for his word inside of me. He working in the squad with each individual and bringing us closer together and everyone is starting to open up and be courageous to approach each other and get some one on one time with each other.
I can’t believe God has me here in this place. It doesn’t register in my mind the fact that I am in a different country and haven’t seen my friends and family in over a month. My squad and my team have truly become my family and everywhere I have laid my head has become home to me. This just feels right. I know I am where God wants me to be and I know why he has me here. I couldn’t ask for more in my life right now. So my prayer now is to keep living everyday in the present as I have been. I pray for all of you back home and thank you for your support. I also encourage you to look in your own life and see what might be holding you back. What is right in front of your that you haven’t been courageous enough to tackle? Ask God to give you strength and courage to do it.
