Hi everyone! This is my last post before returning home to Ohio. This week the kids finally went back to school so we are back to our 4am wake up schedule. I have to say that it makes the last week quite relaxing while they are at school. It was interesting to experience being their teacher-tutor for 5 out of the 8 weeks I´ve been here but now they are back to doing their routine. The school will have to have Saturday school once a month to make up some of the time from suspended classes.
While the girls were home during the suspension we started to create a garden. We dug up the ground, weeded and cleaned it of rocks. With the help from many gardening experts around here, we learned what we need to do in order to plant some vegetables successfully. Yesterday when Mauricio purchased produce from the market, I took some of the fresh seeds and dried them out in order to plant in a few days. I have never done this before but I wanted to learn along with the girls. As I was picking out the many seeds, I was thinking about how one small pepper or tomato has enough seeds to multiply itself by many! That led me to think about what is said in the Bible,"Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times." Mark 4:8. This is how God wants us to live - planting seeds everywhere we go and watching Him grow those seeds to produce and multiply. So I find it fitting that my last week here, I will plant some seeds with the girls in a garden and then I will leave, not seeing the result of this crop. It´s much like my experience with these girls. I hope to have planted good seeds with them by God´s grace and I pray that it will fall on good soil. And with God´s grace and blessing, it will multiply through them and produce a crop even a hundred times. Let´s pray that all these children here at Love and Hope are good soil and that they grow to multiply the harvest of God´s kingdom.
In Jesus name,
Kelly
ps. I return Monday the 17th. hope to see you soon.
