This is one girl that literally had a piece of my heart! Her name is Bayanda!!! She is 11 years old has 2 sisters and 2 brothers. She speaks amazing English. The first day we met we were dancing and singing to music. Bayanda kept pointing at my nails so I told her that I would bring nail polish and paint her nails tomorrow and when I did I could only do her feet because she told me that they get hit by a stick if they had painted nails. They also have to have short hair because there if teachers say that they “don’t take good care of there hair if it’s long” and that really hurt me that they get hit like that. Bayanda was scared that I was going to do her nails like she pulled away because she didn’t want to go to school the next day and get hit. Bayanda and I stared to hangout everyday. Going to the care point I was so excited to see her! She taught me a lot about Swaziland and I taught her a lot about America. There was one day she actually started to ask about my family. I told her I have 5 sisters and one brother and she said “what?? Five sisters?? That’s a lot!” She then asked me about my mom and dad. It was hard to explain to her but I told her I actually live with my grandparents. She said ” people here in Swaziland go find her if they don’t have a mom. Nobody here is alone.” That made my heart full and heavy at the same time. A couple days later in the week, Bayanda and a couple other girls had gotten chicken pox. At first I was really scared to go near her, which I knew made her feel bad and think tons of questions. I’ve just never had chicken pox, so I didn’t want to get it. But later in the day I couldn’t help but go play with her because that’s what I have been doing all the past week. No sickness, no sin, no pain is gonna stop me from loving on this girl and our squad of people. As you can tell in the other picture, because Bayanda is older, some of the younger ones like to hang with her and because they saw that an American wanted to hangout with her, they wanted to hangout even more. So our little group was growing throughout the week. The last day of working at the care point I had brought some candy to give to Bayanda and a couple of the girls and I said ” this is for you, know that I love you, care about you and I’ll always be praying for you” and the girls started to cry because I had to say goodbye. Bayanda and the crew will always have a place in my heart. I miss her so dearly. 
Kids in Swaziland love to build cars. They build their cars out of trash. (To them, it’s not trash) They take the wheels and some tuna cups and nails to build it. This one is the biggest and coolest looking one I have seen yet. So I asked if I could take a picture of it.
Every morning I wake up to kids laughing and having fun outside. This morning I decided to read my Bible outside instead of reading it in my tent. When I started reading, all these little kids came up and started putting their hands on me and wanted to play. I really just wanted to read my Bible, so I asked them if they would let me read my Bible for a little bit if I took their picture. Their faces lit up when I took out my camera! So I said “hey, let’s stick out our tongues and go uhhhh!” And when we did, I snapped the picture and then noticed that I was about the only one who did it, but the girls faces were just so happy. They really love seeing the picture come out of the camera. 
This is my team mate, Abby. We are currently at our care point raking up rocks and putting them in the wheel barrow to drop the pile off and on are way back when the kids hop in for a ride. They loved it and wanted to say in the wheel barrow for a long time, and every time we took the it back to drop off another load the kids would run and hope in. By the end of the day, there were about 9 kids in the wheel barrow when we started off with only 4.
One day, I got out of ministry a little early so I stood by the gate by our care point and waved at the kids that were walking by. I saw some girls going by, so I called them over by saying “Hey! Whatcha got there?” And they told me they were ratting carrots and I asked if I could take a picture of all of them and their eyes lit up! These are the girls I met while they were eating their carrots. A couple days later, they actually asked a couple of my squad mates were I was, which melted my heart! Every morning I wake up to kids laughing and having fun outside. This morning I decided to read my Bible outside instead of reading it in my tent. When I started reading, all these little kids came up and started putting their hands on me and wanted to play. I really just wanted to read my Bible, so I asked them if they would let me read my Bible for a little bit if I took their picture. Their faces lit up when I took out my camera! So I said “hey, let’s stick out our tongues and go uhhhh!” And when we did, I snapped the picture and then noticed that I was about the only one who did it, but the girls faces were just so happy. They really love seeing the picture come out of the camera.
This little boy is 6 years old he doesn’t know English but he loves to listen to music. The first day I arrived in Swaziland I was setting outside reading my bible and listening to music he comes up to me and wants to know whats in my ear ( my head phones) and he pulls them out to put them in his. Almost 2hr later and he still isn’t bored. He just stands by me and listen to my music as I read my bible. ??
This little boy was standing around holding a math book and I asked him “hey do you have some home work to do?” He said yes and I said well if you want to sit down over here I’ll help you with it! So he ran over and let me help him with it. When we started to work on his homework the little boy was asking me if I understood what he had to do. His homework was about shapes. He had to draw its reflection; what it was gonna look like if it got flipped. So I started drawing it and the little boy was so excited that I new how to do it. Back in America, if we were doing someone homework they would just be like thanks and walk away and come back and check on us when we’re done doing their homework. But this little boy was interested in how to do it the right way. Yes, I did most of his homework for him but I didn’t feel guilty because the little boy was also learning the same time and of course I had him do it himself, also.
This little boy is 13 years old and he can speak English pretty well. I wanted to capture a picture of him because when we were in church that Sunday, I couldn’t help but look over at him. And when I did, I noticed his heart for the Lord. He was jumping up and down, and saying “Yes Jesus, yes Jesus” and you’ll notice he has an amazing smile! That’s what actually got me. His smile lights up the room. He made me think of Jesus and how happy he is! This little boy had so much joy and I wanted to be apart of that joy!
