Day Two and Through

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRADY CANRIGHT!!!!! So sorry I’m not there, but so happy you’re a year older. Hope you just had the most marvelous time and continue to. It’s your birthday week! I miss you.

So it was day two today. This morning while the rest of the youth team went to Rehoboth orphanage, Taylor, Jodie, and I went to a meeting at the Scripture Union (organization on the property of Norwegian Settlers Church in charge of various youth events in the community) for the camp we’ll be a part of the week after next. I’ll be helping with grade 2-3 and be a part of the drama team. A lovely British girl by the name of Jess organized a brilliant (notice the South African/British lingo) little holiday camp (VBS to us ‘mericans) with the themes of spies. Very impressive. So we met for about two hours for that and met lots of new friends. Also, being surrounded by accents has already leaked into my speech. Today, I ordered a Fanta (FAWN-tuh) instead of a Fanta (FAN-ta). Taylor caught me…I’m coming home with a British accent so get ready! I’m going to sound 10 times more intelligent.

We got done with the meeting and were able to make it out to Rehoboth for about 20 minutes and let me tell you how my heart leapt at the sight of those faces. The faces that had been my screensaver, wall coverings, and dwelt in my heart for a year were in my hands and arms once again, and oh what a reminder of God’s grace and love they were to my heart. Joy of joys. I remembered their names, and faces, although some were missing due to death and adoption, which was a bitter sweet realization, but there were new faces too! The team was so blessed by their time their, and the children were right at home in their hands. One of our believing bus drivers was so moved by the love and selflessness displayed by Jesus through our team, that he asked about the Flippo’s and how he could get involved at the church and how he could pray!

“And they will know you are my followers by your love for each other…”

In action.

We drove back to Lake Eland Game Reserve, where we stayed last summer, and ate a lovely lunch of venison burgers and chips (fries), and FAWN-ta. Then we went on a game drive through the reserve and we saw lots of eland, springbok, antelope, impala (all deer-like animals) and TONS of giraffes up close! I’ll put some pictures up of that, but oh my goodness. Coolest thing ever. Then we went over the suspension bridge, which I did last year, and took some sweet pictures up there. I am determined to do the jump over the Oribi gorge this summer sometime. It’s like a giant swing your harnessed to and they drop you from 33 stories high and you swing through the air. Like skydiving pretty much. Biggest jump IN THE WORLD. Nuts.

I got super dusty, super happy, super blessed, and super clean all in one day, and tomorrow we return to Rehoboth and I get to hear those children sing, and see them dance and I can not wait. I can already feel that my time here is going to fly by, and I’m not even going to countdown, so I’ll be back August 7th and not a day earlier. I miss home, but this is home right now, in the will of my savior, and where my comfort and heart will stay until he calls me elsewhere.

Keep praying, keep surrendering, keep being obedient where you are.

Read Colossians 1:9-14. I was encouraged by that tonight. Now we’re on the same page.

Katy