This week I want to write about my Violet. Violet Namisi came to live with me when she was four years old. She was so cute. She was scared to death and her mother was still alive but was very sick from the AIDS virus and had developed tuberculosis. She expected to die about six months before she did. Her mother's name was Esther. Esther came to know the Lord before she died and I had actually spent over a year with her in discipleship. She shared the gospel with many people and God used her to bring her mother to the Lord.
Esther wanted Violet to stay with me when she found out she had tuberculosis because it is so contagious. The third day that Violet was staying with me she broke a glass by accident. Instead of telling me she ran off and hid and I spent a whole day into the evening looking for her, together with other staff and her mom. We finally found her hiding in bushes. She was afraid that I would beat her for breaking a glass, and I explained to her that I would never do that. I guess her mother would discipline her for such things by beating her with a stick, which is typical in Uganda still. She felt much better when she learned that I would not do that.
She came back to the house to live and was now happy. She began to grow close to David as a brother like and settled in with us as a family. She loved to climb the mango tree and get mango's for eating. When she got her first doll to play with she really loved it and carried it around a lot.
Violet was always shy and quiet, but could giggle like nothing you ever heard before and it would delight me so much every time she began to laugh. She could easily get excited or tickled. David to this day teases her like a real sister and it turned out they were cousins.
Today Violet is still shy and giggles when she gets teased about anything. She loves to play games like rummy cube or card games. She attends St. Lawrence Secondary School and is in her fourth year at the Crown Campus. She likes Zac Efron and any boy who looks like him!!! She enjoys comedies and music a lot. She does not talk a lot but when you get her engaged she is fun to chat with and enjoy. She always surprises mom! Violet is good at playing the drums and has a wonderful singing voice but is too shy to sing in front of a crowd.
She is very pretty and has had it very hard. When she was nine years old her younger brother Junior, who was seven years old, died from the AIDS virus as well. She still has one older brother and one younger brother. The older brother is a sponsored kid and is in a vocational training school at this time. Her younger brother is in high school his first year and has struggled to be able to go to school.
It was hard on her to have lost both of her parents by the time she was four years old and then to loose her brother too. We tried to help Junior but he was already too far gone to be helped by anyone but the Lord and the Lord took him home. I really cried when he died. Violet cried as well, and still does at times at the mentioning of his name.
Violet loves Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior and depends on Him for everything in her life. She always tells me "Mom, I know that Jesus has always been with me and because of this I will always make it until He returns and then we will all live with Him in Heaven."
Esther wanted Violet to stay with me when she found out she had tuberculosis because it is so contagious. The third day that Violet was staying with me she broke a glass by accident. Instead of telling me she ran off and hid and I spent a whole day into the evening looking for her, together with other staff and her mom. We finally found her hiding in bushes. She was afraid that I would beat her for breaking a glass, and I explained to her that I would never do that. I guess her mother would discipline her for such things by beating her with a stick, which is typical in Uganda still. She felt much better when she learned that I would not do that.
She came back to the house to live and was now happy. She began to grow close to David as a brother like and settled in with us as a family. She loved to climb the mango tree and get mango's for eating. When she got her first doll to play with she really loved it and carried it around a lot.
Violet was always shy and quiet, but could giggle like nothing you ever heard before and it would delight me so much every time she began to laugh. She could easily get excited or tickled. David to this day teases her like a real sister and it turned out they were cousins.
Today Violet is still shy and giggles when she gets teased about anything. She loves to play games like rummy cube or card games. She attends St. Lawrence Secondary School and is in her fourth year at the Crown Campus. She likes Zac Efron and any boy who looks like him!!! She enjoys comedies and music a lot. She does not talk a lot but when you get her engaged she is fun to chat with and enjoy. She always surprises mom! Violet is good at playing the drums and has a wonderful singing voice but is too shy to sing in front of a crowd.
She is very pretty and has had it very hard. When she was nine years old her younger brother Junior, who was seven years old, died from the AIDS virus as well. She still has one older brother and one younger brother. The older brother is a sponsored kid and is in a vocational training school at this time. Her younger brother is in high school his first year and has struggled to be able to go to school.
Violet loves Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior and depends on Him for everything in her life. She always tells me "Mom, I know that Jesus has always been with me and because of this I will always make it until He returns and then we will all live with Him in Heaven."
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