zenzelee again (7-5)

today, we headed back to the orphanage in Finetown to do home visits with some of the staff there. The staff told us that they walk to either end of the community daily, which to me looked like it would be probably about 7-10 miles accross, so our cars were a huge help to them today. We started off by walking a little way to visit a woman who had been so weakened by AIDS that she had been struck by Tuberculosis. she was constantly cold, fighting diarrhea, and unable to care for her children. We talked with her as the caregivers gave her water and medicine and then we prayed over her. From there, we headed back to the orphanage and some other groups went out in the vehicles. Because of limited room in the cars, I stayed back and played with the kids for a few hours while others were out doing home visits. it was a lot of fun despite the cold, which kept many of the regular kids at home. Brian and I had a meeting scheduled with a local pastor, but he had gone to the doctor that morning and they sent him to the hopsital, so we obviously had to cancel. He's okay, nothing serious, but we're going to have to reschedule.
When the kids settled down for lunch, we took off and went to the Lion Park. This is a zoo with lots of exotic animals at arms length. We got to play with baby lion cubs, feed giraffes, and drive through cages of lions (some of the lions got within a couple feet of our car!). That was a fun experience, even thought i had already done it before last time i was here.