Sonni Bonnani from Yebo Swaziland.  We had a busy week this week in the
Bush.  We had another amazing prayer answered on Tuesday.  All of the
crops we had in the fields were dying, and the skies were clear.  My
boss Robert and I went around almost all of the fields and we prayed
for a storm.  They haven't had water in over a month and the crops
badly needed it.  When we got done working a rain cloud popped out of
nowhere right over our farm.  It rained all night at the farm I work at
and Manzini got an all night rain as well.  We must have the favor of
the Lord with us.  I'll trust in that for now!  We had a very busy and
interesting week in Manzini.  There was work all week as well as
preparation for the "day of love."  As many of you know there are only
3 guys on our team and now 15 women.  We began planning some last week,
but most of the stuff we got done this week.  I worked on the farm this
week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.  We had a bunch of cool jobs to
do this week.  On Tuesday, we pulled more irrigation hose out of
storage and began laying it to water the new Maize crop (little did we
know that it would poor all afternoon and evening).  This weeks
conversations we're really incredible.  Sanele and Nolani came over
this week for lunch on Tuesday.  These are the 2 youngest of the men I
work with.  Sanele is 22, and Nolani is 23.  They came over for some
left over spaghetti!  They also taught me a new card game called
casino, and let's not forget "Mango Time."  I think each of us all ate
5 mangos.  Last week I told the guys that they could make the choice
whether just to be working buddies, or friends that hang out all the
time.  Apparently they knew what was good for them because they came to
our house.  On the way to the team house the guys and I talked about a
lot of things.  One of them was topic of praying for rain, and how God
answers prayer.  They asked me do you really think it will rain! 
Before I could say anything, the heavens opened up and we took off
running like chickens without heads.  We were all laughing and soaking
it up.  Later on that day I took a shower outside to conserve
water....haha.  It is amazing how He always provides when you put your
faith in Him. 

The conversations with the guys continued to go really well this week. 
We talked some on Friday about how going to church doesn't make you a
Christian.  A lot of people here think that if you had a bumper sticker
that said Christian, and you wore it around on your back, that you'd be
some kind of hero or something.  To be honest I don't really like the
label...."Oh your a Christian."  So, we went through a bunch of stuff
like that and Sanele brought up some interesting points.  He actually
said out loud to me that he knew God in his head, but not in his
heart.  You know what that means.  Right now he is on the fence and the
Lord's starting to change His heart.  We talk in fields quite a bit,
and if you know me well talking isn't a problem.  So please pray for
Sanele, his heart for the Lord Jesus, and that ministry on the farm
keeps going as solid as its been going.  Right now the Lord is
specifically pointing me to Sanele, and I can almost feel how much the
Lord is nearing to Sanele's heart.  It's coming friends!  Get ready to
be celebrating because Sanele is claimed for the Kingdom of Light!  I
absolutely love the guys I work with and work has been going great.  On
Wednesday, we did some hoeing, but we mostly harvested a bunch of
vegetables.  We harvested tomatoes, cabbages, chillis, and green
beans.  It was a lot of produce, but we got the job done.  That was one
of the promises they made to my boss, and now they have come
through....Praise Him!  On Saturday our whole team came to the farm to
work for family ministry.  We did four different tasks in about 4 hours
time.  Some of the gals picked green beans with my boss, 6 of us hoed
the rest of a maize field, a few people prayer walked around the farm
(See Joshua 1:3), and lastly we ate delicious wild berries out of trees
and had a wonderful picnic.

Let's not forget valentines this week.  We served the gals breakfast in
bed on the morning of valentines day.  The night before we put up
strings with hearts on them from the ceiling and wrote out invitations
to them to come to a formal dinner we were throwing.  That day Ben,
Jamie, and I put together a video.  We went out and interviewed Swazi
men about what a real man was, how they would show their love to a
woman by dancing, and what love was to them.  We also asked about 7
women questions!  In the end we went out to Vickery Nursery to buy some
flowers for the girls.  The theme was "how many flowers must die before
the gals accept us as the men of this team."  The video was really fun
and funny.  It was good bonding time for us guys, and it was a way to
show the girls how much we love them as sisters.  We served them as
their waiters for the night, played the video for them, and called it a
night by cleaning up the disaster we made in the kitchen.  You say to
much work, I say a pretty good, but "busy week in the Bush!" 

Love you all, have a great week,

Melusi