Hello everyone! Today was another very exciting day. I actually started the day off with a lot on my mind so I missed a lot of what was going on around me. I went to an HIV/AIDS children's home and met some of the children. Yall, they are so beautiful and so innocent that it hurt me to know that they were ill. I think I would have been better off not knowing. But if I learn nothing else from my trip here I am learning about compassion, an area I lack in. I continue to thank God for giving me this opportunity because obviously He knows that I lack in this area so He's putting me in a postion to grow, I'm glad He knows exactly what we need when we need it. At one of the HIV/AIDS children's homes I went to there were 107 children living there and since its in a township they just put 5 shacks together. The children's home isn't government funded so anything that the house mother gets is from donations. The children sleep up to five in a bed but when you talk to them and observe them in their environment they are home. Ms. Amelia, the house mother, has the older teenage children help her after they get out of school and if I may say so myself these were well spoken children. I know now that the old saying is true never judge a book by its cover, and these older children really impressed me with their dialogue. They showed us around their home and was very pround of who they were and what they have in spite of where they live. I want that spirit, that freedom, that pride. It's so rare so I guess that's what makes it so precious. I love that their spirit of life and joy proceed them so you can't feel sorry for them if anything they have a right to feel sorry for you (or shall I say me). It's only been a couple of days but I'm learning things here that I don't think I would have ever allowed myself to learn there. I guess that's why God took me from my comfort zone, so I can grow. Later today I went on my first mountain, Table Mountain. Riding up that cable car was awesome, watching the sun shadow over the peaks of the mountains was priceless. While I was there I took the time to talk to God about what was on my mind earlier that day and as I looked over at the ocean line from the mountain top all I could hear him say was, I make everything beautiful in my time." I can't understand why we go through some of life's hardships but I know at the end of the day God will make it all beautiful in His time. The key thing is His time and not ours. So Bishop Mitchell thanks for allowing God to use you to teach me Lord, thank you for not letting me have my way. Who would have thought my relationship with God would lead me all the way to South Africa, the most beautiful city I've ever seen, I didn't and I say continue to be the pilot in my life because if allowing you to be in control have me places like this and experiencing things like this then I move out the way. I believe that this is just the beginning of the awesome journey you have planned for my life, so Pastor Mary I see you were right too when you said that it is More Than Myself. I thought and thought about a question for the day and as I write I can only come up with: Who's flying your plane?