Thanda Nani Game Lodge Mpumalanga

Church was interesting today, a women talked about prophecy. First of all, she starts off saying that she knows that there is a woman named Robin with a hurt left foot and she's blonde and asked if she was at church today... yeah apparently Robin didn't get the memo because she wasn't there. Then the woman went on to say that everyone can prophecy when 1 Corinthians 12 talks about us all having different gifts therefore not everyone can prophecy ...

... in and pulling with our hands and standing in all day! Thank you Jesus for keeping us safe!

After lunch we went to WITL where we started to put up the tire swing.. well Taylor did lol. Brenna and I tried to pierce holes in the tire but that didn't go so well at all! haha we tried screws and a plier thing but we didn't really have the tools we needed for that job. we had the older youth group again last night and it went pretty well. The ...

... by a certain time so they cut our time together a little short. Today we had name tags for all the children and then when we moved inside to do the lesson we told the story of Saul being blinded for 3 days. Then we made bracelets with them and each color represented like how we are sinners and Jesus died for us so we can go to heaven. The ids really loved the bracelets! But then they all started wanting two bracelets and saying one ...

... in Haniville. Since we finished the bean field before lunch, we helped the workers with the cauliflower plants. We pulled up just tons of them since they had already been harvested. It was cool to see how the cauliflower and broccoli grow, i had never seen it before. But it wasn't too bad; the sun was shining and I finally have some color again, I got to have some good conversation with a girl in my group named Andrea, and pulling up the plants was somewhat therapeutic haha.

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... labeled them and put them away in the proper storage area. We did that from about 10-1:30 I believe. I liked it though, it was fun work and although we were cold at least we were out of the rain and doing something to help them out. After our lunch we were supposed to meet with a group of gogo’s (grandma’s) who have a garden there at WITL and just spend time getting to know them but Phindle thought they wouldn’t show because of the rain. So during that ...

... time well and he ALWAYS keeps us after!! and to me that is just so disrespectful of our time. I was kind of snotty in class today too but it was just ridiculous, my classmates found my frustration amusing though.

After class I went to my d group meeting which was really good! We discussed Philemon and I really enjoyed it. That went longer then normal which was totally ok though because we were having good conversation but then as I ...

Spirit week continues as we celebrated crazy hair/clash day. It was really funny! Especially because there is a conference here right now and they see the crazy Americans dressed very strangely each day! haha. Today we visited the last of our 4 options for service sites, it was a preschool and it was pretty neat. I put down Walk in the Light as my first choice which was the first one we visited. I like ...

... of their history. Isandlwana saw the slaughtering of 2,000 British soldiers under poor leadership by a Zulu force of 17,000. Rourke’s Drift (which occurred on the same day as Islanlwana) was a Mission Outpost where only 139 British soldiers, some of them wounded, fought off the attack of more than 5,000 Zulu warriors. The drastically different outcomes of both battles that day were powerful reminders of how leadership and tactics ...

... and alive. The message was good I guess but honestly by that time I was asking myself why I got out of bed because I felt so awful and was constantly blowing my nose. There was cake afterwards though for the pastor's daughter's 18th birthday and then I realized my suffering was worth it... haha jk. But the cake was really good.

After that the rest of my day basically consisted of a nap, homework alllll day and now bedtime. I ...

... releasing a pepper spray mist in a tightly enclosed area (your home) is a big “NO-NO!” I was coughing, sputtering and crying. Sal was sleeping at the time and woke up coughing. He quickly realized I had pulled an amateur mistake and fitted himself with a gas mask until the toxic fumes had diffused away. The best part is the monkey wasn’t even sprayed and he just watched us all freaking out from his tree branch munching away at his spoils ...