Saturday, December 20, 2008

Swazi Christmas Party

Today we were invited into the home of Matron Anna Mdliuli, who is the Head of the 17 Nazarene Clinics in the Bush. She has a real heart for health care to be given out in the rural area. She was a gracious hostess as we enjoyed a traditional Swazi meal with her and a couple of her staff from RFM. We were given a traditional Swazi house dress with head wrap for Karis and a shirt for Will. The older women usually have some kind of wrap on their heads.

We watched her daughters wedding on video that took place in March. Not long before that time her husband was killed by some robbers. He had made a statement before his death that nothing even a death should change the date of their daughters wedding. So the wedding took place as planned. It was a beautiful Christain wedding and Matron Anna was happy to share this time with us. Pray for her as this will be the first Christmas without her precious husband. She is such a loving and giving person that you just fall in love with her.

She is so excited about the work that has been done at the clinic at Sitsatsaweni. She said again today that all the Nurses call it the 5 star clinic since so much has been done to spruce it up and build a home for the Nurses.

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