Happy Valentine’s Day!

We had a great Valentine’s Day on Thursday. The boys on our team are so sweet to all of us girls. The ratio for boys to girls in the house is 3:14… haha! Anyhow, we were woken up at 7 in the morning by the guys coming in each of our rooms singing, “You are my sunshine..” and brought us breakfast in bed. Then we discovered that during the night they had decorated the whole house with pink, red, and purple hearts! Downstairs they decorated the tables where we eat with candles, hearts, and each girl had a place at the table with a card and chocolate. The card was actually an invitation to a “formal” dinner that night. Later that evening the boys served all of us chicken cordon blue with fresh green beans and sweet potato casserole. They gave us entertainment in between dinner and dessert. They went into the town and asked a bunch of locals questions about love and relationships and taped it. They made up this silly show about Swaziland T.V. Then we had chocolate cake for dessert. They said that they just wanted to serve us this Valentine’s Day and show how much they love us. It was probably the best Valentine’s Day I’ve ever had.

So this week for family ministry on Saturday we all went to a farm that Marcus is working at. They grow tons of crops at this farm, maize, green beans, peppers, tomatoes, papaya, sugarcane, and others. My job was to pick green beans! (For those who don’t know me, I LOVE green beans) It was really fun and we picked a huge crate full. Other people on my team hoed weeds away from maize. Apparently that job is much more labor intensive than picking green beans. Also, I ate sugarcane for the first time!

P.S I’ve posted two blogs at once because last week I forgot to bring my flash drive with me to the internet cafe. So check out the blog below this one too!