We arrived at the Warcester YWAM base at 2 am Friday! We were all exhausted. We had been traveling since 3pm Wednesday. So we crashed knowing we had till 1 the next day off. I slept in till 11:30 easy. I could have slept all day I was so tired. This base is really nice! We have very comfortable beds to sleep in. We were very thankful for this since we had been sleeping on our Matt's in London. We basically had the day off to just relax. I got wifi to contact my parents. Then spent an hour or so talking to my mom.
I took a nap (I needed it)!:)
Saturday we hit the ground running. We went door to door in the nicest neighborhood here to spread awareness of HIV to the people, handing them info packets and condemns. Debra our translator made the experience all the more fun, with her bubbly personality. She has no filter therefore she asked questions straight up. Funny story: first home we went to there were two older boys and so she was asking them questions and then asked "have you heard of HIV?" They said "yes, we know too much about that!" And then she asked "have you had sex?" They said "no" and she turned to us and said " They haven't started yet which means they are virgins and are still available" (followed by a wink).
People here are open to prayer and will let you into there house, no question about it. Their hearts are so full and fruitful. Jesus is definitely in this neighborhood. But I still feel as though their are some that don't have Jesus in their hearts. These are the type of people that have little to nothing but don't see what they don't have and are thankful for what they have. Living in Houses made of tin, cardboard or thin sheets of wood barely put together with spray painted number on the house, from the outside it looks bad but the inside is well kept and furnished with Ikea furniture along with a tv, refrigerator and lots of people. News paper or cardboard is plastered all over the walls on the inside, which keeps the place warm. Walking on the streets my heart is warmed by little hands and bright joyful faces jumping and running around me, playing with me as if they have never met a white person let alone American before. I was surrounded by 4 little kids that turned into 12 and then up to 20! We ventured off to the back of the neighborhood where it's just a field full of trash, along it we see goats, pigs, chickens, roosters and dogs running around. My heart aches for this place, these people and their hearts. The need here is tremendous. God is so good to place me in the path of Debra who works at the clinic as a counselor for these people. Since I want to eventually be a counselor...God just loves placing people from that field in my path. She truly has a heart for them and I can't think of anyone more anointed by God than her, here in this place at this time. Here the children have a choice to be raised by their parents or grandparents. So the first house had a lot of kids running around because they chose to be raised by their grandmother. This grandma's heart and love for these kids was beyond what I could imagine or know. I hope and pray to be half as good as a mother and grandmother as this lady was, always open to take care of any child or grandchild that come thru. What a blessing she is. I have a true respect for these grandmothers! This is what I looked forward to all those years I imagined missions, the smiles, the laughter, the little hands, the need, the openness, the precious hearts that truly know love and give love. My heart is full and overflowing.
After lunch we as a team hosted a teenage boys group, where we played games, did a few drama's and testimonies. It was a blast and I think the boys really loved it. I videoed the drama's I'm not in and the games we did to, hopefully I can figure out how to get those up from my camera.
Tonight we went to a night of worship at a church near by. Shakinah glory come down! Lol most beloved song by all of us as we dance extravagantly in the back row.
