So I just wrote a blog and it got erased so here it goes again this is going to be a little rushed. So I am in the kingdom of Swaziland. I am here until Monday.The last few days have been amazing. The mountains are beautiful and the view from our house is incredible.
Ministry here is awesome here. The first 2 days here I worked at a carepoint just playing with kids and helping make purses with the mothers to sell. Then I went to a squatter camp and spent the day with a GOGO( grandma) and her 5 granchildren and just talked and prayed with them. But yesterday was my favorite, which is weird because usually I hate going to hospitals. But yesterday I did hospital visits and I loved it. I went and talked to all of the mothers and new born babies in the maternity ward. It was great. Then I went and volunteered in the pharmacy, where I helped a man named Sam fill out papers and count pills. He was a great man, he tried teaching me more of the language siSwati and just told me about his life. It was nice that I got to help him with his job because he was having a hard time. He had recently had a stroke and was paralyzed on one side of his body. So please pray for healing.
I have a few more prayer requests:
- A girl named Martha on my team is very sick and in the hospital. Please pray that she will be healed.
- Also please pray for all of the children of Swazi, so many of the little girls especially are living in very hard time. Please pray that 4 year old girls won’t have to sell there bodies for money and children won’t have to grow up feeling alone and un- wanted.
- Also pray for the neighbors of our real life team, the people they live next too were murdered a few nights ago. Pray that the real life team will be able to give that family support.
I have been learning a lot about my identity in Christ and the gifts he has given me. I feel like God made me an open person so talk to for a reason and gave me the gift of service to share with the people here.
I need to stop listening to the lies of the devil that I am not good enough and I am not beautiful. God made me for so much more than that.
God has been revealing to me through his word, who I am in him. Here are some things he has been showing to me, and has encouraged me to really think about:
I am fearfully and wonderfully made
I am anointed and owned by Christ
I am full
The lord is my confidence
John 15:16&17
Child born not of natural descent, nor of human descision, or a husbands will, but born of GOD!!!!!
Sorry this is messy and confusing. The one that was erased was a lot better
In him, Abby
