Hello from Cape Town!

Hello Everyone!
I landed in Cape Town safely (a week ago today...sorry it took me so long to write) It's beautiful! I am living in a house with the rest of my outreach team, and me and 4 other girls share a tiny room with 3 mattress pushed together to make one giant bed that takes up the whole room! It's so great! We had the other South Africa groups over for Christmas which was fun. It was really different not being at home but it was still fun. Jesus still got born. We are working in a township here called "Masiphumelele" which is walking distance from our house. It's a shanty village, with some parts nicer than others...but none of the parts are "livable" in an American mindset. Two days ago we toured this part of the village called "The Wetlands" which is this neighborhood that gets flooded everytime it rains because it's all on sand. There was garbage everywhere and it smelled like a sewer everywhere you went. I couldn't beleive people lived in there, but everyone we talked to was full of love and excited to talk with us and invite us into their homes. God is really doing stuff with the people living here. My team and I are planning a VBS type thing that should start up next week with some of the kids in the area. Their school doesn't start again until the 21st so we are hoping to keep it up until then because there are kids everywhere with tons of energy that are wanting tons of love. Whereever you go kids follow you and hang on you and want to play with you. It's so much fun. The kids here share better then any kids I have ever seen. You will never see a kid with 2 rollerblades on, the ALWAYS just have one so that another kid can have one too. And they always give other kids turns without even being told. It's amazing to watch. For the past week we have just been observing the area and talking and builidng relationships with the people there. It's been really good getting familer with the place and more comfortable with it too. It's going to be really good starting up ministry in the township these next few weeks & I'm really anxious to see what God does through us!

I hope you all had a great Christmas and have an awesome New Year!

I LOVE YOU ALL!