Friend Update

ANNE’S COMING IN 9 DAYS!!!!!!!!!

I’m so excited it’s crazy :-)  I wish everyone from home could come see my life here.  I’ve invested so much here I can’t even begin to explain everything, I want you all to see it first hand!  But it’s okay.  Before I left Anne and I had already talked about her coming to visit and I was 95% confident she could come.  I was only holding back that little 5% in case she couldn’t, I’d have room to be disappointed.  I’ve already got our time together planned out, well mais ou menos.. I’ll meet her and my aunt at the air port then go home with my aunt for the whole weekend.  Me and Anne will spend Thursday night and Friday catching up and hanging out with my family.  Then on Saturday my friends from the centre will come out and hopefully stay the night.  I want to head out to an island or the beach, but (as usual) transportation and finances are a bit of an issue.  So I don’t know how that’ll work out but I know it’ll be fun :-)  **God’s really been showing me how to trust him, and not worry but just be confident in waiting, it’s great**  Then Sunday night we’ll go to worship @ Jimmy & Linda’s house and finally go to the centre afterwards. 

We’ll spend the whole week with the boys and going on visitors’ outreaches.  It’ll be my first time on a lot of the ministries the visitors participate in, I’m excited to finally have the chance.  We’ve got four main outreaches that include visitors’ regular help: street ministry (they visit the jail and give food out in a park in the city), hospital ministry (go into the city and pray over the sick in the hospital), the Bocaria (local trash dump, they go and minister to and pray over the community living there), and weekend outreaches into the bush where they preach the Gospel.  I’m excited!  Anne’s gonna love it.  Then the next weekend we’ll (omgomgomg!) go to Kruger Park with my family.  This is the best part.  Kruger is a safari park!  I’m finally gonna see lions and zebras and really feel like I’m truly living in Africa.  It’s going to be friggin sweet!  We’ll drive down Friday or Saturday and then (God’s such a smarty pants) Anne and I will head home on Monday, catching a ride with Meghann and her mom who will be in Kruger that same weekend.  While my aunt and cousin drive down to meet up with Uncle Todd.  It looks as though everything will work out wonderfully :-)  I’ve been trying to get to Kruger for so long, when I was last in South Africa I was really disapointed to not have the finances to afford the trip, since we drove past the park!  Ahh, it hurt.  But whatever, even if Anne and I don’t go to Kruger it’s still going to be an amazing time  :-)


**she just got here this afternoon!  we went to dinner and ice cream with my family :o) and sat outside by the pool chatting for ages, with tea of course!**