It Has Been Way to Long
Man oh man where has the time gone.......
I can't believe that I will be home in six months and that my time here is half way gone, it real does just feel like yesterday since I left.... well maybe not yesterday but no where close to six months.
So what has been happening that past two months.....
Well for starters my parents came for a visit in May and that was soooo nice to see them and for them to see what I am doing down here. They came up with my one Saturday to the mission that the Australian "grandma" has and there were about 50 kids more or less. Needless to say after the day they were exhausted and me and a couple other volunteers that went up were telling them that the 16 kids at the school or way more exhausting then these 50 kids..... they didn't believe us untill they came to the school and met the children that are in my life and have worked their way into my heart.
Speaking of my school children, its been a little rough on them as there have been alot of staff coming and going, and these kids more then anything need consistency and they haven't been getting that, which has been hard on them and as a result a little hard on us that have stuck around. I have been feeling so tired at the end of the day these past two weeks, but this week is a holiday, which is soo nice.
There is an area not to far from where the school is called "the tolerant zone" which is about a street long where prostitution is legal and it is filled with people selling themselves. There is two girls from the school who live basically across the street from the tolerant zone and it just breaks me heart the they have to walk through that everyday and that girls selling themselves for money is just an everyday part of life for them that they have to witness. I feel bad for the girls selling themselves, but my prayer is that these young school girls are blinded to it and not subject to fall into the same path. There is also a young girl that goes to the school who has been through more then a little girl should go through and she has built soo many walls around her. My prayer for her is that she experiences real love, love that is not tainted.
So in a couple weeks I will be helping out at another ministry that has kids clubs and that does family work as well. I am really excited for that and I think that it will be good for my Spanish as there are only Colombians that work in that ministy.
A couple of weeks ago I had a little scare when I went to change my ticket home. Air Canada told me that it was only a six month ticket and that I had to come home on July 2nd. After a few days of freaking out and being stressed and shedding some tears, cause as much as I miss you all, I just wasn't ready to come home..... Once again God was soo faithful and everything worked out and I am coming home on December 20th.... Still up in the air on what I do next.... maybe come back, maybe a YWAM DTS and I have also been looking in to a couple other missions..... but I still have a long time before I really need to think about any of that...... So well I will be home for a while, hopefully it wont be too tooo tooo long........
Thanks again for all your prayers and support....
Ingie
I can't believe that I will be home in six months and that my time here is half way gone, it real does just feel like yesterday since I left.... well maybe not yesterday but no where close to six months.
So what has been happening that past two months.....
Well for starters my parents came for a visit in May and that was soooo nice to see them and for them to see what I am doing down here. They came up with my one Saturday to the mission that the Australian "grandma" has and there were about 50 kids more or less. Needless to say after the day they were exhausted and me and a couple other volunteers that went up were telling them that the 16 kids at the school or way more exhausting then these 50 kids..... they didn't believe us untill they came to the school and met the children that are in my life and have worked their way into my heart.
Speaking of my school children, its been a little rough on them as there have been alot of staff coming and going, and these kids more then anything need consistency and they haven't been getting that, which has been hard on them and as a result a little hard on us that have stuck around. I have been feeling so tired at the end of the day these past two weeks, but this week is a holiday, which is soo nice.
There is an area not to far from where the school is called "the tolerant zone" which is about a street long where prostitution is legal and it is filled with people selling themselves. There is two girls from the school who live basically across the street from the tolerant zone and it just breaks me heart the they have to walk through that everyday and that girls selling themselves for money is just an everyday part of life for them that they have to witness. I feel bad for the girls selling themselves, but my prayer is that these young school girls are blinded to it and not subject to fall into the same path. There is also a young girl that goes to the school who has been through more then a little girl should go through and she has built soo many walls around her. My prayer for her is that she experiences real love, love that is not tainted.
So in a couple weeks I will be helping out at another ministry that has kids clubs and that does family work as well. I am really excited for that and I think that it will be good for my Spanish as there are only Colombians that work in that ministy.
A couple of weeks ago I had a little scare when I went to change my ticket home. Air Canada told me that it was only a six month ticket and that I had to come home on July 2nd. After a few days of freaking out and being stressed and shedding some tears, cause as much as I miss you all, I just wasn't ready to come home..... Once again God was soo faithful and everything worked out and I am coming home on December 20th.... Still up in the air on what I do next.... maybe come back, maybe a YWAM DTS and I have also been looking in to a couple other missions..... but I still have a long time before I really need to think about any of that...... So well I will be home for a while, hopefully it wont be too tooo tooo long........
Thanks again for all your prayers and support....
Ingie
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