Community is cooking amazing meals for 51 people (I didn’t cook but we had an amazing meal team). Community is everyone praying over each other when we are all getting nightmares. Community is your whole room of 20 girls awake at 7:30 am when you just want to sleep until 8. Community is everyone watching the Swazi children kill snakes with bricks in front of you while we all suffer together. Community is launching a lizard three times off of a make shift teader todder/catapult. Community is laughing together about the 20th marriage proposal you had gotten that week.
Community is the 10 boys of the squad starting war at 3 am by throwing chickens in our room when we have to wake up at 6 am that morning. Community is not having any more running water so we all embrace smelling bad together. Community is finding an egg and a dead frog in one toilet bowl (I don’t understand) and a fork plus a giant pile of poop in the other toilet bowl. Community is watching the MEN of the squad do the most instense prayer walk in the world! Community is having to help wash coconut oil out of your teammate’s hair because she ran out of shampoo. Community is impromtu worship on a playground.
Community is learning a new smells everyday together. Community is fitting 20 girls in a room meant for 13. Community is walking outside and having so many kids run up to you and just start climbing on you (untate). Community is sleeping in your hammocks together anticipating said kids to wake you up at 6 am. Community is digging trenches to fill with tires. Community is banana pancakes on a Sunday morning before church. Community is trying to stay awake for a 3 hour church service where you don’t understand a word that is being said.
Community is 20 people watching one movie together on a lap top screen while it rains outside. Community is hitchhiking for a truck bed to ride on because the Kumbie just takes way too long. Community is watching a goat birth on the side of the road while walking to church. Community is 30 people waiting for a Kumbie that you know you’re not going to fit on. Community is playing Avalon all night long ruining friendships while simultaneously building them to be stronger. Community is trying not to get mad when the toilet is clogged for the 50th time that day.
Community is watching healing before your very eyes (Jesus is so cool!) Community is laughing off awkward grocery store mishaps. Community is losing your spork every single day. Community is all of the men of the squad sleeping in front of every single door all night to pray safety over the house! Community is always having a spikeball crew to play with. Community is elephant pants. Community is tough. Community is how God intended us to live.
Although a lot of these sound like complaints I am so grateful for every single moment I had experienced in all squad month. This list in honestly endless. God truly has blessed our squad with so much and being able to share all of our blessings together is amazing! I am currently in Lesotho at my ministry sight! It is so beautiful here! Please continue to pray for me and those I am meeting and building relationships with!
