Many happy and beautiful returns!

Last Sunday took us on a road trip to Pietermaritzburg to watch Ryan swim the “Midmar mile”. It was a great chance to get away for the day and have some fun together. The weather was quite overcast and pleasant so we didn’t think to put on any suntan lotion! Oops big mistake! By early afternoon I could feel my face getting hotter and hotter- I’d got sun burnt through the clouds! Typical! So the first half of the week my face was rather red and is now thankfully back to normal! Needless to say my skin is as sensitive to sun as it has always been. On the way back home we visited a friend in hospital. He’s been quite sick for some time and is on morphine. When we arrived he was sitting out of bed with his tools fixing a fan. Even though he is in tremendous pain he’s still just getting on with life. If he sees something broken his instinct still is to fix it. He gave an amazing short testimony in church a few weeks ago, which totally blew me away. He spoke of how it took a serious illness for him to get right with God. We mustn’t do the same. We can’t just turn to God in the bad times; he must be the centre in the good and the bad. We know what God wants us to do for Him. We must love Him and do His work. It’s as simple as that. Goodness if we all stuck to that philosophy how amazing would our world be!!!!
We had another birthday this week and so it was time for another birthday party! As usual it was a great time for the kids to get together and celebrate another year of their life. The little girl whose birthday it was turned 3. When she came to us she was rather overweight and very unhappy and it’s only been in the last 5 months that she’s really picked up. She’s lost a little weight and has turned into a happy, delightful little girl (as you can see from all the photos). Praise God for working so many miracles in her short little life!

Praise God the little baby girl that was admitted to hospital last week came home on Sunday fit, healthy and back to her normal smiley self. Thanks for all your prayers- they really do make so much difference! I am sorry to say though that a different little baby girl was admitted on Thursday morning with 10% dehydration (ie SERIOUS dehydration). There is an horrific bug going around which causes vomiting and diarrhoea at the same time so in this heat And humidity it doesn’t take long to get dangerously dehydrated. We were very lucky to get a bed at the hospital as it was full of children with the same bug- it literally is sweeping through the village and the surrounding community. It doesn’t discriminate who it affects- old, young, healthy or sick everyone is at risk of contracting it. Again prayers for both our little one in hospital and all those affected by this bug would be appreciated!!!