I hope you are all well and enjoying a wonderfully hot summer back home!
I wish i could say the same for myself. ha! In all honesty it's not too bad... but it's not anything close to hot. I think i wore five layers on wed. because it was so chilly. It's not like Nashville's cold, but.. well i don't even know how to explain it.. maybe it's the wind, i don't really know, but it gets you at the core.
Needless to say, on wednesday, it was not only chilly enough to have to wear five layers, but i opened my door that morning to discover a monsoon pouring down right in front of my eyes. So, we all decided to make a run for it, and needless to say, we were soaked! haha, i'm laughing just thinking about how funny and intense it was.
AND it really does rain sideways! it's crazy! we all jumped in the car and died laughing because our rain jackets hardly did anything. haha.
Other than that, the day was wonderful and i had a really great experience with a group of teen girls who are really starting to be open with me and i am so excited about that! They are wonderful girls and so are all the other kids i work with at Mountain View. i am SO blessed!
Then came Thursday. And, oh my gosh, i can't even begin to tell you how great of a day it was! i know i just sounded like the epitome of a teenage girl, but i don't know how else to begin to express my excitement.
A piece of background real quick:
On Thurs. there are no Kids Clubs, so i didn't have to be in Mountain View. because of this i had to find some other place that i would like to help out on Thurs. in place of that.
i decided that i would work at Living Grace- a branch off of Living Hope that works with the homeless in Muzenburg.
So, on Thurs. Margaret and i went to Muzenburg and had a ball! We went in and had morning devotions with all the people (they have to do morning devotions and worship in order to get food), and then we began our work. The first part was separating out all the rotten stuff from about ten giant sized crates of fruits and vegetables... and okay, that part was actually quite disgusting.. in fact, i'm pretty sure i have never ever seen fruits and vegetables look the way some of these did. :/ blah!
but, after we separated all those, we had to wash all that was good, peel it, and cut it up. It was a long task but completely worth it. It was during this time that we met some incredible people. They were homeless, but oh gosh they had incredible attitudes! i laughed and cried (a result of the onions :) ) and made some great new friends. How inspiring is it have people, in conditions like they are, come in and lift my spirits and speak truth into my life! I don't even think i'm doing a good job of explaining/ expressing this, but it was truly humbling.
We were also able to serve them all lunch that day- they come back in for more devotions and worship- and it is so unbelievable to watch the way they worship the Lord... i just don't understand why they have to go through this... such incredible people with such incredible faith, and here they are... on the side of the streets. It just doesn't make sense.
Needless to say, Margaret and i will be going back every Thurs. :)
Oh! and in two weeks they asked the two of us to come and prepare the lunch for everyone. of course we were like, "yeah of course! We would love to!" then we found out we have to come up with a recipe. haha.. that should be interesting. so, if you have any great ideas of something easy and good to make in large quantities, please let us know. preferably a soup, we figured that would be easiest.
oh, i almost forgot, we also helped making cards with this guy named craig. What a blessing! He is in a wheelchair and so he stays at Living Grace and makes greeting cards that they sell through there. But he is so sweet and i am happy that he allowed us to help him in his craft.
anyways, i have to run, but i hope you all have wonderful weekends! i think we are headed to Cape Point tomorrow so that should be fun! i will let you know how it goes.
If you don't mind, please continue praying for all the refugees and their safety, and also pray that i will not freak out about the fact that i only have two weeks left because i am already starting to worry about it.. i really don't want to leave. (not to mention i have not taken NEARLY enough pictures! i have been so scared to whip my camera out in public because it draws so much attention.)
Well, i love you all! keep me posted on your lives and things going on back home. i love hearing about all that!
talk to you soon,
Ames
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