From Me!

Hey again! Well, life is still as crazy here this week as it was last week! Our selling clothes saturday in the village didnt really go as well as planned. It ended up being a super cold, rainy, misty day. Also we had a few obstacles in our way and ended up leaving later than planned, which left us with very little time in the village considering it is almost an hour away and we had to be back by supper. We had some issues/miscommunication before we left the center - which left us pretty frustrated. It's difficult to know how to deal with things here.. Please pray for those involved in the children's center. This weekend we (all us volunteers at MIS) are taking the juniors to Durham Link for the weekend. Its kinda an international youth organization. Its just here in Maseru, but it will be nice for some of the kids to get away from the orphanage for the weekend, since all the older kids already got to go on a trip. It will kinda be like camp, with lots of fun and games, devotionals, singing, and sleeping in bunks. I am in charge of the games on saturday afternoon, should be fun. I am really looking forward to it, and yet at the same time I am sooo tired and pray that God will get me through the weekend with lots of energy! Pray that the trip will go well, that we can build on relationships with the kids and most importantly that they will learn something this weekend that they can apply to their lives here in Lesotho. Pray also for all of us leaders; that we will be good examples for the kids all weekend and that we will be able to have tons of energy to keep us going! On another note.. when Annie and I were walking home today, there was shooting across the street. We didnt see the shooter, but there were forsure five shots and people around us (the streets are crowded) were all a little tense. Its was kinda scarey, so we just kept moving faster to get by. Sometimes it really does get scarey here in Lesotho. So many houses (especially missionary houses) have been broken into in the past couple months, people are being mugged, one lady just got pretty badly beat and robbed last weekend just coming home after work by her gate, random gunshots... it scares me sometimes.. But on the other hand I know that God is good and he is taking care of me. I don't need to be afraid because He is with me always:) Please continue to pray for our safety as well as our health (yupp got another ringworm!). Until next time!