Matt had to go into Harare today to sort out a few things. We have finally got a tenant for the house in Harare but they have their own gardener so Matt went to pick him up and bring him and his family here. Another family at Golden Harvest to add to the birthday celebrations ;-)
I stayed at home as there would be no space for me and Austin and his family and goods. It has been a rather miserable day weather wise. Very grey and windy and cold. Has made me want to stay inside all day. I am about to head to the orphanage though, I am going to start my first day of helping them with their homework and just building a relationship with the children there. I am interested to see how they are all doing with their school work.
The afternoon was quite an interesting time. The children speak as much English as I do Shona so we had a hard time communicating and as I had gone there to do great things and to help them with school work and all it kinda fell flat. But it made me stop and think and to realize that actually for now all that I need to do is build a relationship with them and in actual fact if all that these children need is to have me play with them and spend time with them that no one else does then I am happy to do that! They are all very sweet children and I am really praying that my time with them will just up lift them and if anything changes then God can have the glory not me. It broke my heart walking around the orphanage to see the blankets that they use – on these cold nights of winter they have very scrappy blankets and I wonder if they really do stay warm at night. A friend in town who has a heart for orphans too has been able to get a group of friends together to collect things like blankets and warm clothes and I am sure that the smallest thing will help them. With the lack of communication all that we were able to do was draw pictures, a language that anybody can understand.
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