It has been a busy week. Our team worked all day Saturday clearing brush and thorn bushes on the new property to prepare the land for construction of our house. The fence is nearly completed, only having left to put on the gates. We, along with the community members will start making cement blocks at the local river this week, and digging of the foundation will happen next week sometime.

I got word from South Africa yesterday that everything is going extremely well following Busisiwe’s surgery and she is healing rapidly. We hope to see her discharged from the hospital by the end of this week.

We also got some joyful news earlier last week, following some blood tests, that Nondumiso is in fact HIV negative! She is continuing to grow so fast, as most do, and is talking up a storm now. I am not sure if it is siSwati or English yet, but I am sure there will be a good mix of both.

Today I am off to host a pastors’ conference, open to all pastor’s from our community. This is the 6^th consecutive, monthly, pastor’s conference we have hosted with Pastor Malaza, and they continue to be a great success. We are hoping for an increased turn out today, as we met many more pastors at a gathering for prayer and fasting and the chief’s homestead last weekend.

Tomorrow we along with the team will be trained in caring for HIV and Aids patients by a dear friend who is a registered nurse. Following that training we will head out with our team to Pretoria, SA for a couple of days of solitude. While in SA the team will also get trained in maintaining African vehicles in the bush.

Much Love, Claud