Sawubona!

Hello everyone!

I'm sure people have been wondering why I haven't written about the Cherish studies yet. Well, that's because 1. they don't start until next week and 2. my role in them is a little bit different than I had thought it would be. I had thought I would be working with Becca and 3 Swazi girls (Phumlile, Hlonphile, and Zabiba) to lead 3-4 groups of 8-10 girls. That is a maximum of 40 girls. Instead though, we are having Swazi girls who have been through the study and are in form 4 or 5 (the two top grade levels here) lead groups of the younger girls at the school. This means that instead of up to 40, we are going to have at least 180 girls going through the Cherish study! I am so excited about this! Becca is pulling back from the studies to focus on other projects, so it is my job to drive everyone all over Swaziland to get to the 4 schools we are doing Cherish in (one in each region of the country). Also, Hlonphile, Phumlile, and I each have one of the four schools of which we are in charge. Mine is Ngwane Central High School. We will be at all of the schools overseeing the groups the Swazi girls from those schools are leading. We did preliminary visits this past week where we met with all of the girls and gave the leaders transport money to get to our house in Manzini for training today. The training went very well, and we are all very excited about what God is doing in the lives of His daughters here in Swaziland!

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