More Mapheo fun

So remember our game of ladders? That day there was one little girl who had stood out to all of us as totally clueless but hilariously so - she would plop herself back down in her place after her turn of running (which never went the right way), turn to the leader next to her and state in Sesotho 'oh I don't understand' with a very melodramatic sigh and then giggle away. This week we were teaching the kids about the great commission and trying to open up the world to them a little bit. The leaders sat around the room, and in groups the kids rotated around us and each of us taught them how to say 'Jesus loves you' in a different language. After the kids had left we all compared notes and guess who had made us laugh the most? Yes it was Katleho again! If you know that Friends episode where Phoebe tries to teach Joey to speak French it was like that. We'd state the phrase to her a little bit at a time and then Katleho would speak it back. She'd get it completely wrong but think she was getting it 100% accurate and grin away at us. Very, very funny. Let's just hope God never sends her to Russia or Poland or India - they won't understand her at all!

On a much sadder note, this week one of our Mapheo families lost a little baby boy. His mum is HIV positive and we're sure he was born HIV positive. He didn't seem to be developing properly and then contracted meningitis a few weeks after he was born. He spent the last few months in the hospital and died on Thursday. Please pray for peace for the family and for them to come to know Christ through this tragedy.