This first week in Swaziland hase been a really big challenge. Adjusting to the new culture and getting to know the people in the small town of Timboutini has been so amazing. Going to the care points almost every day and getting to spend time with the kids there has already taught me so much in as little a one week. I think that If Iwere to go home right now, I would come home a completely different person then when i came here a week ago. Learning the culture and the language has not been easy at all. I’ts actually very tiring. I have never slept so much in my life! But its all...

We have finally arrived in Swaziland and getting settled into our new surroundings. We are living on a homestead in the city of Timbutini. It’s been interesting and fun getting here. After a 16 hour plane ride and a 5 hour bus ride to the homestead in Swaziland, we were all exhausted. We have enjoyed our stay so far at the homestead! From living with chickens and goats everywhere we go and going to the bathroom in a tin thing without a door and a huge hole in the ground with only a seat cover, it has for sure been interesting and a very different experience. We are still getting used...

“There’s no one, there’s no one like Jesus”is what I sang in Siswati to my new friend Tabani as we sat on a dirt pile in the sun, half way digging a hole, half way falling asleep. Wiping drool from his mouth to keep him clean. Holding him like we’ve know each other forever. Just singing and swaying. No other words, in our own little world. As I was singing, I could feel the peace of God surrounding us, flowing through us. “There’s no one, there’s no one like Jesus.” I know God is always with me but I never realized how real He was till...

I need Africa more than Africa needs me. There are a lot of stories I could tell you and a lot of testimonies I could give you about being back in Swaziland but there is one lesson I have learned that has been made more clear to me since arriving last week and I would like to share it with you. This is the second time I have been to Swaziland, I LOVE this country, and I can honestly say that God has used bringing me here very strongly in my life to change and grow me. When I initially came to Africa in 2008-2009 I came to help, to serve, which I did but I have come to realize that God...

If you would have shown me where we would be staying. Or told me that our lovely outhouses were towards the road and have no doors, I would’ve thought long and hard about coming.  At home I learned we would be having bucket showers. I tried to figure out what a bucket shower is.  I asked my family. Some thought it would be a bucket with a hose. Some thought a bucket over top with a shower head. Nope. A bucket shower is just what it sounds like, a bucket of water.  But by dirty day four I could not have been happier for that bucket shower!  So, the firt little...

Day 2 at training camp God spoke to me! I have never really felt that before and it was amazing, God was talking to me specifically, I was sitting listening to Kyla speak and a verse just popped into my head. It was James 4:10. I had the sudden urge to just open my Bible and read it. It said:   “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.”    It just spoke to me because the whole time before this trip I had to give up a lot, and God was just telling me to give it all up to Him and He is in control. To anyone who feels like God never talks to...