I hope your week was filled with excitement and joy and whatever else God may have blessed you with.

A few cool things from this week.

I did get to go to Manzini house for a few days and got to go to work with Marcus. Which was what I needed, some hard physical labor, and just to be next to a buddy/brother who was there to encourage me. We spent Tuesday hoeing out weeds in the Spinach rows for about 6-7 hours, and Marcus was just bringing it in the Spirit to his co-worker. There were only 4 of us out there that day. The one guy Sinela, who speaks English really well, and Kosa who is an older man and never learned English. So Marcus has spent the last few months with these guys and pretty much since week 1 he's explained to these guys why he's here and he told me almost everyday the Lord gives him a word to speak to the guys, and always gets a discussion going with them. So Tuesday when I was there, he was talking (preaching is more like it) about Jesus' character and how it seems like we've changed it to fit our own desires and wants. And Sinela was just totally into it and bouncing questions off Marcus and me. It was awesome. Then spending the night at the Swazi house was a great time to just be with the other team who is a bit crazier than mine and just a fun group to be around.
Wednesday I went back with Marcus and this time we went to work on a water pump generator about 4 km from the farm that pumps water up from the river to the farm, and had been busted for the last couple days. So we went with Marcus's boss, Robert, who is a solid Christian man, and helped him out, which meant handing tools and just keeping his ears busy while he tinkered around with it. It was funny though, when we first got there I looked over into the river and told Marcus I thought I saw a pig, and he looks and tells me he doesn't think so, and I look again and I'm really sure it is, then all of a sudden a cow lifts up it head with a huge pink water bucket stuck on it. It was hilarious, so we had to go down and get the bucket off.
Saturday we went out to Timbutini, which is a rural area that some of the Manzini team works at in orphanages and schools, and there's a church that some of them go to. Anyways, Erin and Bailey wanted to do something for their kids that they work with, and any other kids in that area, so what that looked like was setting up a little carnival, with face painting, musical chairs, and a bouncy castle that I helped run. The kids loved it, there were over 150 that showed up, and we shared the gospel message with them, and gave them lunch, then at the very end, set up a ghetto slip and slide, which the kids just loved.
Then Sunday, I thought I was going to go camping with the guys as one last outing, but it got cancelled, and sitting after church trying to figure out what to do, I get a call from Ben asking if I wanted to go see the Swaziland Soccer Championship. So a few of us went out there and watched the Malanti Chiefs play the Royal Leopards. The Leopards are all policemen, it's one of the requirements to be on the team, and they won the championship last year, but this year, the Chiefs took it 2 to 1. It was fun time, and just like any big game in America, drunk people everywhere. But we were safe and it was just fun to finally catch a real soccer game.

Prayer requests: We go to South Africa on Wednesday, and Denise is going to have trouble getting in, because somehow the whole visa thing is not working out to allow her to get into South Africa, I'm not sure what the whole deal is, but the Embassy here in Mbabane won't help her and said the only way to fix it is to fly to Johannesburg, so prayers that she'll be able to get in somehow.
Also, Marcus needs to get his a day early than what the team was planning on leaving, so Ben and I have opted to go with him, and get our "man-time" on Tuesday and spend the night over in South Africa and meet up with the team on Wed morning. So safety for us would be excellent.
One more, God has placed on my heart a new ministry idea, which looks like once or twice a week preaching in a local park to some of the homeless and bums and giving them a lunch of peanut butter and jelly. So this week I'm gonna go try and find some in Mbabane and tell them that if they want another sandwich to come to the park on Friday for a message and lunch and a time of hanging out. It's something that God spoke to me when I first got here, but I was too afraid to do it then, and then pushed the idea away, but He has brought it up again, so I'm not sure exactly how all that is going to look like, but prayer would be awesome.
And one more thing, Carrie's parents are flying in on Thursday to spend about a week with her, so a safe journey for them and blessed time with their daughter.
I hope everyone is doing well, that the weather is getting warmer, the green is starting to come out and brighten everything up.

God Bless.