Blessed (WEEK 18)

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One of the workers fixing the roof !!

This week was a good week! I felt productive and busy and just had a positive attitude overall this week! I worked on reports this week for the boys who didn't have birth certificates! That took up a bunch of my time because you needed to go through their files and get information on them and then write the report, which then goes to the Social Welfare Department in Manzini for it to be processed and passed on to the right people. It was a lot of typing and reading but I actually enjoyed it and learned more about each kids situation as I did it. Also, several afternoons this week, one of the younger boys would come to the office and visit me! He and I made paper airplanes and other paper things one day, played cards another, and read a book. I believe he is the youngest boy in our care at Manzini Youth Care. He is a cute little boy but he would stay with me the whole afternoon then walk home with me! It seriously made my week a lot better being able to interact with him and spend sometime with the kids. We didn't get to tutor this week because our car broke down the end of last week and it wasn't fixed until Tuesday morning and then Wednesday when we went there was no one there. But it gave me time to work on some things for the girl's home. I wrote an article for Manzini Youth Care's website that will be posted and I made an agenda of things that need to get done and need to be decided. So in the next two weeks we can have a meeting to decide how things will be run. The girl's home is starting to look better and better each time I go! It was cool to see all the changes since the last time that I had gone and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel finally. There is still much to do but it seems to be finally moving along at a steady speed. However, saying that, we are working on transferring the money that has been raised in America to here because currently MYC has used all it's funds here to renovate the home. Hopefully, we can get the money from the States to here and they can continue to work!

The Kitchen

On another note, this Wednesday I went to a bible study held at the home of an american couple I met at church. It was such an uplifting time! It made me feel very blessed to be apart of it. There were 3 Americans, a South African, a Swazi, and a lady from Zimbabwe. It was really cool to talk about the bible and have discussion with others who grew up in a different culture than I did. It was really encouraging and God really blessed me with the opportunity to join them. So hopefully I can continue to be blessed and go every Wednesday!