Eish!!!! (WEEK 3)

Eish (ee-shh) is a Swazi expression for if something not great happens and you just react to it by saying eish. Sometimes it's used for example: some of the girls from the team and Tenele were playing a card game and Tenele would say eish when she was nervous about what the other person was going to lay down or if they were going to go out before her. I have picked up this expression, so if I were to stub my toe I would say eish. Well that expression explains my week! EISH!!!! Except for the first part of the week was really good we took 6 girls, some of them being prostitutes, out to lunch at KFC (the only American restaurant around). They were great girls and surprisingly shared a lot with us with just meeting most of us for the first time. To hear some of their hearts and their desire for help and to change was something I won't forget! I am glad I will be able to continue those relationships and be here for them when the rest return home. They will still have us supporting them even though not all of us will be here. It was also awesome to watch my teammates love on those girls! It just made my heart full to know how much love God has given them for the people of Swaziland it was a blessing! Tuesday we had a meeting with the head director at Manzini Youth Care, Father Larry, and Sister Judith about the girls home. It was amazing! God is sooo good and when he has something planned things just fall into place! In the meeting most of the talking in the beginning was Father Larry and sister Judith. They shared what they wanted in the home and how they thought it could be run and it lined up exactly with what we were thinking! It was God all the way! They are eager to get it started and wanting to start renovations as soon as possible, which is awesome because we have this joke within our team about American time vs. Swazi time. American time is fast past, on time, whereas Swazi time is slow, go with the flow and whenever I get there I get there! We are all exciting about what God will be doing here with the girl's home and know He has great plans! I know I am more then honored to be the one to stay for the year and help get it started!!!
So for the Eish part of my week....we went out to eat on Tuesday for lunch and did some souvenir shopping. Well I don't know if it was what I had for lunch or what but Tuesday night was not fun! Sorry in advance for the details but if you don't want to know you don't have to read the next few lines! ;) But I got really bad diarrhea and was vomiting! From Tuesday through Friday I can't even start to think how many times I went to the bathroom! It was a sickness I wouldn't wish on anyone, even my worst enemy! But God revealed a lot about myself through it and just the prayers from my team and my Swazi friends made me realized how blessed I am by these people and how much they have faith in Jehovah-rapha, the God who heals. Even though it was not fun to go through coming out of that sickness is so relieving! Friday I finally went to the clinic and received medication for everything! So by Friday evening I was feeling much much better! I still am gaining back my strength from not eating for 3 days but God is good and is truly Jehovah-rapha, not just physically but emotionally and spiritually! So my prayer is that You will know God as healer! That you would let Him touch your life and heal your wounds and scars, whether it may be a physical, spiritual, or an emotional scar/wound/sickness. So even though most of this week was an eish kind of week I know God used it to glorify him and teach me things that maybe I wouldn't have learned otherwise!