MOLO!!! This trip is amazing! The people here are the sweetest people i have ever met in my life. iN the black township I am working in a daycare/church ( ITHEMBA) which means hope , and the title is completely true. I see tons of hope in these children. The very first week we ( LindsEY Kerns, Courntey Mayberry and I) got there the kids were a blessing. They would always come up and hug on us and climb on me. The  first time i walked into the place i almost burst into tears. These children are so sweet. Yet the way they abuse one another and even me at times, i can tell that there home lives are not all that grand.

     

     There is a young boy named Vicktore ( Yes i also thought it was Victor, but that isn't how we should say it), and he is a handful and a half. He has the worst temper i have ever seen in a 5 year old.  Nombsa, one of the day care leaders told me that at his home he is abused so badly that he is completely numb to any spankings or punishment, which is heavily enforced at ITHEMBA. He will refuse to learn anything they teach him, and if they make him try to do anything he just screams so loud and curses in  the Afrikaans language. But God has given me a heart for this boy. I can see light at the end of the tunnel. After a burst of madness and crying the other day, he came up to me and just crawled up in my lap and just laid there. I almost cried again. I just put my hands on his head and told him i loved him and prayed for him. He is getting tons better. He is actually learning now. I see so much hope in this little one.

 

     All the people and children are not like this though. Most of the kids are so hyper and cute. There is a boy named Shawni who looks exactly like a teddy bear. He always wants me to hold him and hug him. If i can't hug him he ALWAYS cries. It is the most pitiful thing ever. I love all of these children SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much. They are all so beautiful and i have such a great connection with them, even though they speak a different language, but God has showed me so much patience through this language barrier. He has showed me that i can show love with my actions and expressions, and not just my words.

 

    Christ is becoming so real in my life. I am seeing him everyday in the people of Jeffreys bay, and i am also being his hands and feet.  God is good and he has not failed us once.