Thursday, October 19, 2006

God is in control

Ok...so there are 46 days, until we get on a plane to come home to visit. I'm so ready for this term to be over.....EXAMSSS...are really stressing me and my head feels as if it is going to explode. I'm just overwhelmed i guess. I cant wait till they are over. Right now I am in midterm break , go back next Tuesday (not long, but its somethin). Exams start in 3 weeks i think. I'm so excited about visiting the U.S. , it's not that I dont like it here, because I LOVE IT, but you know...just a bit homesick. Swaziland is awesome and I am sooo glad we are here doing what we are doing, but there is no place like home. Especially LOOSYANA. lol.
Please pray for my mom and this little girl, Pepe. She is nine years old and has AIDS. When the medical clinic was here last week , the day she came, they said if she wouldnt't have come that day she would have only had about 72 hours to live. They put her on IV's, but now she's doing really bad agian. She stays with her father, who also has AIDS and does not take care of her. Basically he just lets her lay in bed all day and doesn't even ask if she needs anything like maybe WATER or FOOD. Anyways...my mom has been really sad the past few days , it breaks her heart to see this little girl go through all of this pain. She took her to a government hospital today and they said she also has T.B. When my mom left her there, she kept saying in Siswati "Home , Home". My mom told her it was going to be okay, and she just nodded as if she understood. When these kindof things happen to helpless kids, we often ask ourselves, "Why does God let this happen to them?" , but it breaks His heart, too. We can never understand all of God's ways, and that's what makes Him so great. Just to know that He is in control of everything, even the bad. I hope that one day soon , Pepe will be in heaven with no more pain, and just feel God's loving embrace. So...please pray for my mom to be able to make the right choices in what to do and to have peace through all of this, and also for Pepe, that God will take away all of her pain and if it's His will, heal her. With Christ , all things are possible.
Well...thats all for now. I miss everyone!!!