Buy a Donkey

No I'm not telling you to purchase an animal, that's the phonic spelling for thank you very much in Afrikaans (I don't know how to spell it). I just wanted to write about the last day. I've been really grateful for it.

I told some friends back home that sometimes I can only pray the words Thank you, because I don't know what else to tell God for all the good things that happens in my life. Yesterday it was funny because everyone prayed in Afrikaans for the whole service and I could only understand the words Thank you very much.

Yesterday was tough because the night before I couldn't sleep well. I'll tell later about what happened, but anyway it was tough to deal with, but yesterday I spent the day with Byron one of the youth from church. He shared about how he's cleaned up from drugs and drinking and really gotten on the straight path which has been good for his family and everyone around him.

We went by a lady's house who's son has gotten mixed into tuk (meth). Ursula took us by the house to talk with him, but he wouldn't come home. She cried to us and shared how she's trying and really appreciated us coming by and she might have done something really bad if we hadn't.

We took Byron to Bap with us when we were doing a pick up and he was so moved by the way the children ran to him he said that it completely changed his entire perspective of black Africans. He always thought before that they chose the life they lived and now he had a different outlook. I got to hold Gift, my buddy at Bap. I would guess he's about 4 or 5 years old and he always runs to me and won't let go of me. If someone else gets in my lap first he hangs on my arm and waits to pounce as soon as they get up.

It was a day of ups and downs, but I'm just grateful all that I'm getting to do and see and that I can be a part of so many people's lives.