adventurescga-blogs Mar 16, 2008 8:00 PM

Exploring what Swaziland has to offer in Nsoko

Hey all it has been a couple weeks since my last email to you.  Life here in Swaziland has been interesting, challenging, fruitful, and full of a...

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Hey all it has been a couple weeks since my last email to you.  Life here in Swaziland has been interesting, challenging, fruitful, and full of all sorts of truth.  As you know from my last update the Lord directed me to a new team for a couple weeks.  I was living with a couple older and wiser guys.  To  be honest it was nice to spend that time with guys that were pouring into me, challenging me, and encouraging me tons!  We spent about 10 days sleeping in tents.  We were living mainly on homesteads.  Our homestead was right next to the care point we worked at.  The 3 days we stayed there about 20 children were our alarm clock around 6am.  It was amazing because we would just get out of bed and play games with the kids, enjoy a bowl of warm pourage, and about 9am we would go to the care point with the kids.  It was incredible to get away from the house we've been living in.  The Lord really showed me a lot about love while we spent our days and nights living with a Swazi family that spoke almost no English.  There were a couple other projects we were working on in Nsoko.  First off, Danny and I joined a soccer team for a couple of days.  I played number 2 on the defensive side.  These were kids in or out of high school and played soccer everyday, also noting that I have never played a full game of soccer.  Well my team lost in our scrimmage game 3-0, but we battled to the best of what we were gifted so I walked away with a victory ;) 


 


We also spent some time putting up a giant tent this week at a site called G-42.  G-42 standing for the 42nd Generation.  Christ being the 42nd (Matthew Chapter 1).  They were having a week long revival this easter season.  We worked with Swazi men and women for a total of 3 days putting up this monster of a tent.  No tools except a sludge hammer and work gloves.  The tent however had lots of opposition to our efforts. One of its beams had some problems and on our second day and once during the revival it had to be taken down.  No biggie the revival continued and praise God for the amazing things that happened.  Meanwhile the Lord was making big changes in me.  I continued reading in the book of John, and I am just beginning to understand what being humble means.  John 3 is probably the definition of humble to me.  When John tells his disciples that Jesus should be greater and he always less, I couldn't keep reading.  These are men that have been faithfully following John for years as he told all about the Christ, and he gave up all his pride, ego, and everything in that one statement to his disciples....praise the living God!  We spent some time doing a few things when we weren't in ministry as well. 


 

The whole group came back together for a weekend at a Safari park.  Nisela Safari's had quite a bit to offer for animals to view.  That is an understatement.  They have 2 male lions.  We camped at Nisela for 3 nights, and it just happened that during the weekend they always feed the lions!  Well Kyle and I saw the pickup truck pull up that was feeding Mkhulu and Lucky.  They had just killed the Donkey.  It was still warm and now in 2 pieces.  Kyle and I asked if we could come for the feeding.  So, we jumped in the back of the truck with the donkey, and took off for the lions.  Mkhulu began following our truck when we were nearing his pen.  They let him out of one gate so he could move to the feeding pen.  When he was only one fense from Kyle and I the driver made us get out of the back and go into the cab.  They let the lion loose, and he chased the truck a little bit.  No worries he caught his prey.  He pulled the donkey carcass out of the truck in one swipe and drug it off to the bush to munch on it!  It was amazing.  What an amazing God to create such an amazing animal.  We also got to go warthog hunting.  I went on Monday morning at 5am.  However, it rained on us for all 5 hours we were hunting.  The boys that went that afternoon shot 4 big hogs though.  Pretty cool experience walking through open sugar cane fields looking for the brutal hogs.  I will miss the guys that I was living with a lot.  After a week with this new team I missed my old team extremely!  I was so glad to get back to them on Tuesday! 
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