We have been very busy lately. Jon has been running around with the group quite a bit and I have been putting the finishing touches on several sponsorship projects. One of my big projects was translating 45 letters from kids in the mountains. Back in January, Kids Alive took an already existing children’s home in the mountains of Peru under our name. The main reason these kids are in the home is so that they have the opportunity to go to school. They are in extreme poverty situations and it would otherwise be impossible for them to attend school. Most people in this region don’t go to school past elementary, but this home allows them a place to stay while they attend school. Someone else was supposed to translate the letters, but was unable to and so when I realized on Tuesday that they needed to be translated by Saturday to send out with the team, I was under a MAJOR time crunch. Well, I had no idea what was ahead of me. The blessing that I received from reading these letters was amazing. These children are probably the most grateful kids I have ever encountered. Their letters were peppered with stories of a life without electricity, cutting down alfalfa to feed little piggies, and musings about how a little girl hopes the chickens she is taking care of are hens and not chickens so that she will have chickies and not chicken soup. Life here in Lima can be quite modern and these kids’ letters took me back to simpler times where chicks, playing in the river, and climbing trees are the finer things in life. It was a beautiful distraction. I thank God that these kids have the opportunity to know the Creator of all these simple things so many of us pass right by.
In other news, we fall more and more in love with out little girl daily…