Reflections from Mary

So, yesterday we spent the day traveling again...we're really good at waiting in long lines by now! The five-hour drive to Swaziland was actually really fun. I really saw God in the beauty of South Africa and Swaziland. It seemed like every five minutes we would go down another hill and see the beautiful landscape spread out before us and everyone would immediately get out their cameras. It was also really fun talking and laughing with everybody in the vans. We had four people squished up in one seat for five hours, but it ended up being a lot of fun. There were parts of the road with no streetlights where we could see the stars really well, and we stuck our heads out of the window and looked up at the sky, and it was full of stars, so many more than we could see at home. When we finally got to Swaziland, we stopped at a church where they gave us dinner, which was delicious, and told us a little bit about the culture and customs of their country. One of the things we heard was that the overall word to describe Swaziland is "unity". The country is small, only about a million people, and they all speak one language and have one culture. It was amazing to see and learn about this place and be welcomed by everyone who lives here.

Mary