MWB Updates! :)

So yes... All my posts are about Africa or Mothers Without Borders but

this week in institute my teacher said "If your heart has really been changed by something -

you're going to want to share that thing with everyone"

And that is exactly how I feel.

So here are some updates on my favorite organization:

• My fireside has found a theme The Worth of a Soul and it is definitely still in the works!! The people with authority are workin it out... I am thinking it is going to happen the Sunday before Thanksgiving but I will keep anyone informed who wants to be :) Kathy (MWB founder) is amazing & even volunteered her husband Philip to speak!! It's gonna rock.
• Clearfield High School (woo woo!!) is throwing around the idea to sponsor Mothers Without Borders for their annual fundraiser: Falcons are Fabulous! I am so pumped about this! Thanks to my cute sister McKall (she is senior VP) and really pushing this idea to them!!
• Next Friday I get to go to my baby sister Shelby's (okay she is 11 but still my baby sister) elementary school and give a slideshow presentation on all my amazing friends in Africa at the Children's Resource Center & have the elementary school kids write letters to them! How cute is that?!
• And last but certainly NOT least... the Mothers Without Borders Boutique is coming up!! November 6th & 7th!! Their are going to be boutiques both days in Layton as well as Lehi. Their will be some great things from Africa to buy as well as fun crafty things made by locals and all proceeds go to support Mothers Without Borders! It's going to be awesome! The first day of the Layton Boutique Liz Lemon Swindle will be their to sign her painting The Worth of a Soul (picture of the savior & baby in Africa aka Philip & Kennedy!!)

So there ya go! Thanks for reading and caring :)

Love Will Conquer

A couple weeks ago my sweet friend from Zambia, Carol Zulu, passed away.

Carol had been really sick for a long time but her passing was really hard to handle.

I was recently able to attend a memorial in her honor this last weekend.

It was so nice to be with my 'local African family' (as I like to call them)

& to grieve with people who knew Carol and knew what an amazing, amazing girl she was.

Carol was the biggest example of loving freely & forgiving quickly.

That girl has been through SO much in her life but I never once heard her complain or voice anything negative ever, and if you could only understand the pain she was constantly in - it's unbelievable.

At her memorial Kathy (MWB founder) read the poem Love Will Conquer by Emmet Fox & it totally summed up Carol Zulu - it touched my heart SO much and I had to share it:

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer...

no disease that enough love will not heal;

no door that enough love will no open;

no gulf that enough love will not bridge;

no wall that enough love will not throw down;

no sin that enough love will not redeem...

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;

how hopeless the outlook;

how muddled the tangle;

how great the mistake;

A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...

Here is a link to a youtube clip of slideshow memorial of Carol Zulu

Mothers Without Borders is going to be putting together a

Carol Zulu Children's Sanctuary

where children dying from AIDS can do so in a clean enviroment surrounded by family and loved ones. I am going to be putting together a HUGE fundraiser to donate to this fund...

I talked to Kathy and she was more than happy to come & speak at a fireside!

I will be sure to keep you all informed on this :)