Get Ready! Get Set! Wait....

Well my flights are booked, work taken off, bags are packed... (well not just yet but I feel like that!) and now I wait... I leave March 2nd and am so excited, It is so soon but yet so far away!
This will be another wonderful experience I am sure. This time when I go I get to stay at the center with the kids the entire time, which will be super cool! And since I will be there with solely spanish speaking people most of the time I better get on learning it better! haha.
It is amazing when you learn what you were called to do at a young age, I was called into the mission field and now I can't get out! It is what I as made to do. When I come back to Canada after being there, it's so different. I can't just go about life the same, acting the same and doing the same things because I know the poverty there is around the world. I have seen first hand children die of simple, preventable things. And now you want me to come back and cry with you because you gained 5 pounds and your dress doesn't fit properly anymore? Not going to happen. I love this country and these people more than I ever imagined humanly possible to love someone or something. It is an overwhelming feeling.

These kids just melt my heart. I was looking at pictures today from all of the teams that have come and gone and from all the times i have been there... Amazing. When i look back at some of the pictures from 4 years ago when we started working at the center the difference is so dramatic! where there use to be dark, dingy corners there are bright, soft mats. And where there was paint peeling and chipping there is colorful, clean walls and cribs. I feel so rewarded to be able to be a part of the work that is being done in Guatemala. I have had so much good happen to me that I cannot even find words to describe how blessed I have been through family, friends and life experiences. I cannot wait till March when I get to finally cuddle my babies again. Sandra has been asking for me and I told Olivia (my best friend in Guatemala) to tell her I was coming soon. The next week Sandra was so angry at Olivia because I wasn't there, poor baby girl. I love that little girl so much I just can't wait to shower her is kisses!!

2009

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2011


And also just look at the difference this center is making in the children in a few short months -

Big News

Well I have been praying and praying, hoping and wishing about going back to Guatemala. I love the country so much and the friends I have made there are so precious to me. I have been wanting go down in Feb. but worrying about the money and only getting to be there for a week.
Today I got an invitation, to come down in March for another 6 week internship. How exciting, This is exactly what I love to be doing and exactly what I needed. I am really ecstatic about getting to go down and see my friends and kids again. Just look at their sweet faces -