January was a busy month here at the hogar. Since it was the
girls summer vacation they were all here all the time which is a shift from the
school year where we only have half here at a time. There was so much stuff
going on though that it didn’t give the girls much chance to get out of hand. The
sisters had to go to La Paz for a weekend because the sister that’s head of the
congregation was visiting Bolivia! And ALL the sisters left! One of my site
partners had to take over the sponsorship house while we stayed at the hogar
with the girls. We were also in charge of the church and other duties while
they were gone. Christy and I made a deal with the girls, if all there clothes
was washed, chores done and rooms ordered we would have a slumber party on
Saturday night and that is just what we did! Christy made cookies with some of
the girls, we made juice, huge tub of popcorn, someone donated chips, cookies
and candy and we made hot chocolate. The girls were sooo excited! We came down
in our pajamas and they all ran to put theirs on and pull out all there
mattresses into the room with the TV. The girls danced and fought with there
pillows until they wore themselves out and then watched movies until 9am and
ate tons of junk. It was a success I was so happy that we could pull it off
with them. It also brought up the fact that we are getting old because the
girls were going strong on Sunday and we just wanted them in bed so we could
rest after their all nighter. :)
The sisters returned and then we had our retreat with all
the SLMs the following weekend right here in Cochabamba. The sisters let us
borrow there guestrooms and all the Bolivian missionaries started arriving
little by little. We had an awesome time, great food and some very inspiring and
reflective presentations/meditations by all the sites present. It was great to
see everyone again and great to have others to talk to and hear the similar things
we are going through even though we are all doing different things. Since most
of us are about half way through this beautiful year it was a great refresher.
This month has also been the sickest of my life haha. I have
just had one thing after the other nonstop. I won’t give you all the gory
details :) but I will say that I believe that God was speaking to me through me
illness. I am not one to rest, relax and recuperate, for example, Nyquiling
myself so I can go back to work the next day to find out it was not the flu but
e-coli of all things. So as much as I hate not working and doing what I have to
do there was no choice but for me to take time off from the girls. So
practically kicking and screaming I am in the room getting those three Rs I don’t
welcome to well and I can almost see God with his patient smile, smiling down. I
realize it is just another lesson he needed me to learn on how I am not in
control and how I seem to forget that a lot.
It also made apparent what a blessing my entire community here is from the sisters to the missionaries i work with everyday.
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