The Beauty Salon is Now Open

Welcome to the beauty salon.

On Thursday we have community outreach where we go to a community by our base and help with a feeding program. The children there are sooooo excited to see us that when they see our truck pull up they come running out to us and swarm us. Immediately they want to hold your hand or want a hug or just to walk with you. Most of them are pretty young so they know very little English. Sometimes it's hard to communicate with them but they don't care they just need love and attention. After they ate on Thursday they decided they wanted to braid our hair....not just one of us all of us. Some girls didn't like it but I love when people play with my hair so I let them go for it. It was relaxing until they would start fighting over my hair. haha But we had such a good time just sitting with them, playing games and singing. I can't wait to go back this week.

We have community outreach Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and sometimes Saturdays. Monday is a feeding program in another community that I can't spell. We normally just call it Cabo for short. The children at this feeding program are more shy and reserved then the children in Dwaleni. It takes awhile for them to warm up to us and by the time they do we have to leave. Last Monday while we were waiting on the children to show up we went next door to this lady's house who runs a daycare and we played with all the little toddlers. Again they came running at us when we walked up and just wanted hugs and hugs and love and attention. There is only one lady running the daycare with about 20 children. So I'm sure they don't get the attention they need. Wednesday we went to a bible study for the teenagers in Mbosweni. They don't really talk when we are around and it was kind of tough getting involved. However from now on Wednesdays we are going to this place run by Iris Ministries, called Michael's Childrens Home. (We went there this past Saturday) It is a small base where they take in orphans or abused children. They put them in couples homes so it is more family based and they get lots of love and support. We helped them paint, play with the children, build a playground and help dig holes for a prayer hut. It was wonderful and I can't wait to go again Wednesday. All the people there are so kind and thankful for the work we did for them.

Class hasn't started this week because we don't have a speaker yet. So today we did creative expression and painted. I am beginning to like the creative expression days, even though I'm not that great of an artist. This weeks lesson is the Character and Nature of God. Please be praying this week goes well, because last weeks class didn't go as excitingly as I had hoped. A lot of people on our team were disappointed, but I know God has a lot in store for us so this week can only get better!!!