Monday, January 19, 2009

Durban...thus far

Hey everyone,
We had some free time today so i thought that i would make a blog update.
We have been here in Durban for a few days but have been traveling for a week. Two Sundays ago I went to London while we were staying at the Ywam base in Harpendon, it is a huge city and i only had a few hours there so we walked by Big Ben and then down to London Bridge (tower). We left harpendon, bound for London early Monday afternoon. We waited anxiously for Jose and Arietta to arrive from the South African Embassy, hopefully with Jose's visa for SA. When they arrived we were sad to hear that they didn't grant Jose the visa, but jose was allowed into the country for 30 days.
So we left England and flew to Madrid, Spain. Shortly later we boarded the plane to SA. Once we arrived, we stayed in the airport for a few hours until our bus arrived to take us the 10 hour journey to Durban.
So since we have been here, i have swam in the Indian ocean, shopped at one of the biggest malls i have seen, worked with children in a slum near Durban were 45% of the populations has HIV/Aids and TB, Cleaned a woman's house who has spent her life being treated horrible by the white people she worked for, and i went to Church.
Cleaning the house was amazing, I'm pretty sure that the Gogo (Zulu for Grandmother) was in shock that a bunch of white people cleaned for her.
Its been amazing so far and i cant wait to see what Gods going to do here.
Cheers! Nate

Ohh PS, today Jose went to the home affairs office and got an extension for the visa so thank you to everyone that was praying, God really came through.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Nathan! I have been out of pocket -- but praying for you......hope the time in SA is amazing!
Love,
Aunt Susan