It is the baby sister of Beth. I have been in Zambia for about one and a half days now and it has been wonderful! To back track a little bit my travels went very smoothly, and I even ran into an old friend from Young Life Summer-Staff on the same flight from South Africa to Zambia (such a God moment because that was the main part of my travels that I was nervous about, PTL.) After I had a very warm welcome from Beth and the whole Nelson-clan at the airport we headed to the crocodile farm in the big ole' Special Hope truck. There we looked at some of the most-deadly snakes in Africa (terrifying), a guinea pig that was not there by the end of our trip (snakes, guinea pigs...the circle of life ya dig?), and crocodiles right at feeding time. The crocodiles were eating rotten chickens that were donated by a local farm. At one point a chicken literally exploded the minute it hit the crocodile's teeth shooting organs, blood, and feathers everywhere. CRIKEY, it was a sight. Then we had a lovely snack and headed home. As many of you know us sapis very well, I immediately fell asleep in the car. Then a lovely evening at home watching casino royale, well for me sleeping through casino royale waking up only to the sound of "em, do you want a cookie?"
This morning we woke up, ate muffins (MU-FFIN), then headed out for the day. We ran a few errands then went for some serious special hope-ness. We met Nancy, a very helpful translator, who knew of some families that had children with disabilities. She took us to Joseph who was an 18 year old boy who was not able to walk and had cognitive disabilities. It was very exciting to see Eric, Holly, Beth, Sam, Maggie, and Mollie do the work that God has sent them here to do. Holly and Eric asked all the important questions to the mother, Beth snapped some pictures and helped with Maggie and Mollie, Sam was his ever-so-friendly self with Joseph, and I somewhat sat back and took it all in.
Then we headed to another family who had a sweet 13 year old boy who really didn't talk much. The Special Hope team did their magic once again and we were then off to Nancy's house to visit. As we walked into her house there was possibly the cutest baby ever named Loti. I held him the whole time we were there and it soon got late so we had to go home. While dinner was being made Eric asked me a few questions to get my marketing-mind going-"how would you market Special Hope?" We chatted it out a little and right now here is who I have on my list to email, as the Special Hope Research Intern: The Passion 2011 conference for the "Do Something Now" campaign, Sarah Palin, Watoto organization in Uganda, and George Foreman (to sell a Special Hope edition of a George Foreman grill. Any others you can think of?
Really appreciated tucka love, for more reasons than one. Thanks.
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