Pictures from Zambia

The live chicken right before we killed it for dinner

Village children

Hiking to Kalambo Falls

Girls at the Falls

Me, Kacy and Kelly on the boat

Happy Birthday My Love!!!!

We made it safely to Jo-burg! And I'm excited to tell ya'll all about what we are doing here. The Joseph Project is affliated with YWAM so we are staying at their base and working with them. I thought space was limited at our base....I now share a room with 11 other girls. There are 2 regular bunk beds and 3 three-level bunk beds. We are crammed in there tight, but it's kind of cozy! We live in a house in the inner city of Jo-burg. It is EXTREMELY different from our base which was 10 minutes away from any town and from the remote villages of Zambia. But I must say I like it ALOT! We are involved with a lot of ministries here. There is another pre-school run out of the building we are staying in, which is nice, the children come to us every morning :). Half of our group works with the children and the other half of us are going to local schools and doing presentations on human trafficking awareness, complete with a drama and everything. We learned the drama and information yesterday and we have been practicing since then. We haven't gone to a school yet but they are contacting them and hopefully we will have several to go to this week. After lunch there are 2 after school homework programs that are run out of our base. One is for the older children, grades 4 - 7 and the group I am helping with is grade 0-3. They are so cute I might be taking one home with me! Friday we are going on a field trip to the park with them so it should be a lot of fun! We also are already involved with a church here. We went Friday night, Sunday morning and we will go Wednesday night, Friday night again and then Sunday. They are doing a series on the Holy Spirit and several people from our team have already taught or gave testimonies. It has been a good time getting so involved with everything. The people that work at the Joseph Project are amazing and so wonderful to us, I have really enjoyed it so far.
Well tonight is Taco Tuesday! We have kept the tradition going strong...I only have one thing left to say before I go for now.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLI MARIE! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND MISS YOU!

I will update again soon now that I can get the internet again! Please keep praying for my team!

ZamFam!!

This is going to be short because I do not have much time but I just wanted to update everyone on the last month of my life. Which leads us to ZamFam! I am on outreach in Zambia and here they put Zam in front of everything...so we thought it would be perfect to call ourselves the ZamFam! I have spent the last 3 1/2 weeks in Mpulungu, Zambia where I experienced all sorts of new things. In Mpulungu you can only buy live chickens, never frozen, always fresh! So I learned how to kill a chicken, de feather it, cut it up into pieces and cook it. Don't worry I have pictures to document this new skill I acquired. We ran an orphan school while there for 3 weeks. It was challenging because they were so young that they knew hardly any English but it was well worth the time and effort. I love those children so much and miss them already. We also went to a youth camp for a week, in Zambia youth camp looks more like boot camp. Complete with 5 am running, a whistle blowing for every activity, sit ups, step ups, climbing over walls, swinging on ropes, etc, etc. Needless to say I didn't appreciate this style of camp very much. But the worship was awesome and I learned a lot of new songs in different languages. I also learned how to eat nshima (Zambia's version of pap), by rolling it into little balls and using it to scoop up whatever food we had to go along with it. We always used our hands to eat, never silverware. In town we were local celebreties...people would stare and crowds would form just so they could see mzungu's (white people). Apparently white people are a hot commodity up in Mpulungu and everyone once to see, touch and talk to one. So much more happened this blog does not even do it justice. However I am at an interent cafe and it is slow and my time is almost out so I will have to update some more when I get back to South Africa.
We leave in 2 days for Johannebsurg where we will be staying with a ministry called the Jospeh Project. We will be doing street evangelism, helping with sex trafficing awareness workshops for the world cup, working with a school and working at another youth camp. Right now we are in Lusaka enjoying our day in town and staying at a YWAM base. I miss ya'll all very much and can't wait to see ya'll in a month!! June 7th back to Texas! I will update again as soon as I can. Please be praying for us as we travel and minister in South Africa!