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We worked our first three days in a row this week. Every day is so long but so rewarding as well. It was our first week without the aunties from Canada as well as one our age from England. However, the United States is filling up the Door of Hope as a girl from Iowa came by all herself! It amazes me how she looked up this place on the Internet and flew here by herself; that is amazing faith.

I have fallen more in love with the babies every day. Three children got adopted this week!!! It is bittersweet; We miss seeing them. However, we also know they have a family forever now that will hopefully be loving them so so much. Two new children were brought up from the infant room. They are two and three months old and so tiny. So may premie babies are trickling in. Supposedly a lot of the times these babies were meant to be aborted. A lot of people resort to the "witch doctors" all around. The abortions went wrong and they ended up at the Door of Hope. Yesterday I got pretty emotional changing one of the new little babies. I was scared to change her because of how small she is. I then started thinking about how thankfully she was brought from the hospital. I can not imagine someone that tiny, or anyone at all, being abandoned on the street. It gives me more of an appreciation for the Door of Hope. God has amazing things in store for these children; I know it.

Yesterday we were able to see the first Baby house built where the latch is; people can place their babies through this latch to give them to the door of hope. There is an alarm sensor in there. The area around this baby house is a lot more rough. We saw one building which was meant to be a rich/fancy place for people to stay. It ended up turning into pretty much a shanty town. It is a huge building. Supposedly a lot of babies are thrown outside of those windows often. It is so hard tohear that.

On a happier note we have been here three weeks. After four weeks we can take the babies on day trips. We are thinking about taking three of the older boys to the Lion Park! I am so excited to do that. Technically these boys would be in the toddler house; however, there is no space right now. They will probably leave us very soon which will be a sad day. However, it will be neat to take them to the Lion Park!

We may go to Swaziland next weekend to work with a ministry one of the girls has worked with! I am so so excited. It is more relational based ministry. I truly can not wait to form connections with people. This has been on both mine as well as Annie's heart. It will be tough as it has one of the highest percentages of HIV/AIDS in the world. However, I am truly excited to experience part of the "real" African culture. We will be sleeping in a tent as well.

Off to enjoy the rest of the day with friends :)