clothing exchange

There is a team from San Diego here and they are awesome.  We have really been enjoying our time with them.  The leaders name is Morgan and so our daughter just adores being around her.  They are going to be leaving on Tuesday so we dont have much time left with them.

 

Yesterday we were able to be a part of one of their projects.  They had a clothing exchange where the children brought an item of clothing they were willing to trade for a new one.  The kids all lined up and got ready.  I will try and load the pictures here or on facebook sometime tomorrow.  It was really great to see Morgan and Leah participate with donating their clothes.  They had a hard time understanding why we were going to leave most of our clothes when we were in the states.  But now that they were able to give to their friends and did so from their hears with joy both benefit in the situation.   It is a great picture of how we might not understand why God wants us to do something but when are hearts and eyes are opened we understand his purpose. 

 

Another great aspect about this clothing drive is that the team is taking the clothes from the children back to the states and a clothing company makes patches from the material onto shirts.  The company sells the tshirts online and the money will come back to help Swaziland.  I will put their website on our page soon for those interested.

 

We ended up driving most of the day seeing a big part of the country.  The girls were going crazy for the first half of the trip but did better on our way home. We went to the Swaziland Candle Factory.  Interesting enough we met the daughters owner the first night of our stay at the guest house.  we did not find this out until after our trip otherwise we would have tried to see her.  The girls really enjoyed spending the evening with her while she was here in Nsoko.

 

Well it is getting late and even though I dont sleep well here I am going to try and rest my head.

 

Please pray:

 

– our health which has been great so far

 

– safety with travel

 

– our relationships here at the guesthouse and the center

 

– for the children  here pretty much living on their own