Little Rays of Sunshine

            Delson is your typical African child, overly friendly and curious to know the unknown. As a missionary, I loved being with, playing with, and messing with the little African or more specifically Angolan children.  These kids roam the streets day in and day out, using their imaginations to carry them day-to-day. Some wearing practically nothing to other kids wearing old Bananas in Pajamas t-shirts, they always carried a smile with them. But all of them would call us Chinese, without fail. Some kids would love us as we walked in their neighborhoods, while others would get really nervous and run away, some crying, thinking we were the walkers from the “Walking Dead”. 

              Once they aren’t afraid of you and start talking with you, they just love the attention. And once you pull out a camera, you start a feeding frenzy, where you would be talking to like 5 kids and then once the camera is pulled out, there would be like 20 kids out of nowhere. For example, one time in the street we were talking with some kids and they wanted us to film them as they did some tricks off this tire.  What they would do is get a running start and then jump off this old tire like it was a trampoline and do tricks off it. Well these 4 kids quickly turned into 30 kids doing tricks for us, and it was so funny. One kid did a front flip and biffed it bad and landed flat on his back with a huge thud like a kid belly flopping into a pool. 

       

They are some of the most interesting and funniest kids you will ever meet, and the way they are growing up isn’t affecting that. They have as much fun as any kid in the whole world.