John's First Week in Cape Town!

So we left on the 5^th of July! I was kind of scared leaving because Luke and I were on different flights until we got to London the next day. Then we were on the same plane from London to Cape Town. The plan was for Luke to meet me at my gate when my plane landed in London, because his flight was supposed to land earlier than mine. Well when I got off my plane Luke wasn’t there. So plan B was to meet at our gate where we would leave later that day, but the air port didn’t know the gate until 2 hrs before take off. That was in 5 hrs. So they said that there is a place where everyone has to go and wait for their flight gate to be called. So I went through security to this waiting area they talked about. To my surprise it was huge! It was around 60 yards wide, and 400 yards long, and two stories! So after walking around for almost 2 hrs. I went in the middle of the down stairs floor and sat down. There were easily 1500 people where I was. 10 mins later I see Luke looking up at the computer monitor!! I stud up raised my hands and he saw me! When he came over I asked him how long has he been here, and he said he just went through security and came down stairs. Luke and I were in awe that God cared so much for us that he made what seemed like the impossible, possible! When we landed in Cape Town the next day, we went to the mission house and we were there for maybe 30 mins to shower and drop off our bags. We left and went straight to the kid’s camps in Khaylelitsha. We were there till around 6 at night and Luke and I were incredibly tired haha. When we got back to the mission house at around 7pm and the pastor said that we were going to leave at 4am the next morning to go to TransSky, which was a 16 hr car ride into the bush of ZA. When we got there the terrain was very mountainous. And since there was zero pollution, we could see the Milky Way!! It was so incredible to think that our God just breathed every single one of those stars into motion. For the next 4 days Luke and I slept on the ground in a hut! It was awesome to dance and play with the kids. But one of my favorite parts was waking up, sitting on the grass outside and reading my bible! It was an awesome way to start my day! While we were there in the mornings our team went hut to hut to share God’s love, and then in the afternoon we had children’s church! It has been a really cool experience to be here in Africa and I can’t wait to see what else God has for us! Thank you so much for your prayers! Please be praying for us because tomorrow is our first day that we will be leading kids camps in Khaylelitsha, and talking to the kids in middle and high school about character! Pray that God will give us the words to say, and give these kids the ears to hear! Thank ya’ll so much and have an awesome rest of the day! Talk to you soon, 

John.