Meet Mabior

Mabior is one of my favorite people here. I worked with him a lot on the compound in February. He was the first person I saw when the plane door opened when I retuned. He was shouting "Yar, Yar!" and gave me a huge hug when I got off the plane.

Mabior has a neat story. He grew up a bored, frustrated kid. He burned his family's house down a few times because he was bored. When we was older, he worked at the cattle camp, but didn't do very well there. He let some of the cows go. Oooops. In 2007 he was looking for a job and ended up coming to the compound. He was introduced to the Bible during devotions and has since become a Christian. He was baptized in the Tonj river earlier this year.

Mabior is the sweetest, nicest guy. He has such a servant's heart and faithfully serves Suzy and her kids on the compound. He is always willing to help me out with whatever I need. He is so much fun to work with. One day I was baking something and he and Donato were in the kitchen with me. They kept bringing me random stuff to put in the batter. Finally I said, "enough! What I really need is grasshoppers. Can you bring that to me?" Apparently, they didn't understand what grasshoppers meant and they went to the shelves looking for grasshoppers. Mabior brought back bicarbonate of soda. I laughed so hard. Finally I tried to call off the search, but Huggins kept them looking by saying "I see it right there!" We laugh a lot.

Mabior is 22 and we are trying to find him a wife. Mary Abak, has a daughter, Rebekah, who just started working here. As Suzy was interviewing her, she all of a sudden thought she would be great for Mabior. Rebekah is sweet and loves the Lord. When she approached him about it, he confessed he likes her very much. Suzy went to talk to Mary and worked out a deal for 25 cows (with Rebekah's consent of course) - at least we think she did. Mary doesn't really speak English but she shook on it! She did say she has to get her husband's consent. So we have to raise 25 cows for Mabior, pray Rebekah likes him and that her family agrees.