South Africa in the first week of March

Hello all !!!

This week in class we were taught by Floyd McClung the founder of All Nations. We studied and picked apart Acts chapter 13 & 14. They are starting to give us assignments to finish on our own for the next week and then we all discuss our finding and how the Lord spoke to us in that assignment. We also broke down the "Jesus Story" into parts, simplified it and need to be able to retell it smothly in story format. This is what we broke it down into: 

creation

rebellion

sacrifice

return
commission
We then searched and found verses to back up each part of the story and told it in 2-3 minutes. It was hard at first to make the time and not sound choppy but after practice it becomes smoother. It's a good tool to start a conversation off with or a good tool to use in a Bible study.

This week in Masi went well, very hot but it went well:) We held our first kids club for the Vulnerable Children. They played games, sang songs, we told a Bible story, prayed, and of course the best part......snack. We meet in a small shack that All Nations owns in Masi. There were probably 15-20 kids there of all ages. It was a good time to be had by all.

Another Masi story for he week...............I was walking around Masi with my group, 2 woman, and one guy from CPx and one other guy who lives in Masi and is alos in CPx this year. We were walking back to where we normally get picked up and dropped off and as we were walking and talking we look up and from this house, to the sidewalk, and spilling out into the street were all of these people dressed up in ritual attire. They were all pretty loud and they were blocking the street. They were perfoming rituals and sacrificing and worshiping their ancestors. Before we could figure out what was going on we were walking through the middle of them. Lucas who is the guy that lives in Masi kept us walking through and then a woman came right up to us and started asking why we didn't come back to her house. After Lucas spoke to her he came and told us that she is a sagoma or witch doctor. Apparently other people form CPx had gone to her hosue earlier and spoke to her and prayed with her. She was inviting us to come back and pray with her again. It definently got a little hairy and that was really the first time I got nervous being in Masi. But everything turned out good and I am still in one piece...Ha!

Here are a couple more terms for ya:

Sangoma - witch doctor

SMS - texting
Petrol  - gasoline
It's getting harder and harder for me to come up with new terms I think I am just getting used to hearing them so it doesn't seem out of the ordinary and they are really hard for me to remember. I'll keep trying but this section of my blog may be quickly passing away.....so sad when that happens

Here are a couple more things that happened this week:

Earlier in the week I volunteered to cook dinner for the house, we take turns on mon and sat (our days off). I made spaghetti, sause, salad, and we had a bag of cookies for desert. I got many compliments, it was nerve racking but fun too.

A little fact we learned this week was that all snakes in Cape Town are protected and if you are seen killing one there is a R10,000 fine. That's about $1500.00 !!!! But I will restate.......if you are seen........and leaveit at that :)

During the week all the ladies got invited to Floyd and Sally's house for a Bible study. It was amazing. There was food, the view was incredible, we got little gifts......and the best part of it all we had ice for our drinks.....that was the first time I had had ice since I left home. I didn't realize how much I loved ice, I usually don't even use it at home, but man it was nice to have it and probably the first time I got excited about ice in my life.

We started a new trend between Africa House and Silver Palms(where the couples stay). Every thurs night we have praise and worship from 7 till whenever, I love it!!!

Yesterday I went with a couple to help them with there kids while they were trying to start a friendship with a Samali couple who are Muslem. I love this couple and there two girls, so it was fun to be had by all. We went to go get henna. Not sure how to discribe henna better that something that looks freakin awesome/tatoo like but comes off in 2 to 3 weeks. You should probably google it to get a better idea of what it is. Anyway, Igot it done!!! I am now the proud owner of 2 -3/4 sleeve henna arms:) I will try to post pictures to my blog later this week of what it looks like.

Things I miss the most after being gone for a month:
Pizza
My people
fishing
driving
my independance
We'll see how that list changes as time goes by.

I've been thinking and praying about which outreach to go on and I am strongly leaning to Zambia. Here are some of the details I have about it so far.
 We will be going to Livingston
living in tents
cooking by the river
experiencing tribal living
we will be hosted by a couple that are full time there now with All Nations, Dan and Regina.
We will be able to shower and clean up on weekends
not sure about email or phone communication
not sure if we will have power during the week
I will try to find out more details as we get closer and keep everyone up to date. So far I am pretty excited about it!

Prayer requests:
Health (I'm doing well, thank you for the prayers keep up them up I need them)
Wisdom in decision making
Better momory for class
Understanding and a smarter brain for class
Praise report...........no fleas all week !!!! I am so excited and not so much itchy anymore!!!!!!

Thank you to all of you for your on going prayer and support, I couldn't do this without you.

Here's some pics hope you enjoy!!

This is the view from Chapman's Peak Drive about 5 minutes from where I am staying. This is Nordhoek Beach

Another pic from Chapman's Peak Drive. Isn't this beautiful!!!!!

   This is where I sleep. I am on the bottom bunk and God had favor on me and didn't put anyone on the top bunk:)

 If you are standing by my bed and turn around this is what you see. Lots of cubbies to put our stuff. On the right side of the picture (not seen) is another set of bunks like on the left. It's one of the bigger rooms and we are thankful for it. Ther are 4 of us in this room.

 This is the view outside my bedroom window......pretty awesome huh?!?!?!

Well that's all I have for now. If you want send me some pics ideas you want me to post and I will see what I can do. It doesn't cost that much and now that I have it figured out it's pretty easy.