waterfalls.

happy monday! i was so excited to go back to the summer school program today. its great to have weekends off to relax and get geared up again, but by monday im so ready to get back into it. we had a great weekend. we watched the missionarys kids all day on saturday and played rummy royal, a crazy game called heroscape and then watched starwars. on sunday we met the team and had a little worship service at the team house. its sarahs home church so its cool that she is close with all of them and it was great to meet them. then we packed up and headed to aguas blancas waterfall. so we all loaded in the back of the truck, and by all i mean like 15 americans and then the kids from the green house, it was so packed, kids sitting on laps, people squished, but so so fun. the drive was a little over an hour up the mountain with a beautiful view. then we got to the waterfall and it was just breathtaking. the kids got in the water and splashed around a little, we took a lot of pictures, and then had a picnic lunch. on the way back, many of the kids fell asleep in our laps. then we had dinner with the team and a time of worship. it was such a neat time and i have missed singing in english with other believers. then dave went through and gave us all the stories of the kids at the orphanage. for privacy protection reasons, i cant share any of the stories on here, but let me just tell you that it is unbelievable. these kids have been through some of the worst situations i have ever heard of. many of these stories i hadnt known yet, but ive been working with these kids for two weeks and ive noticed some things that after hearing the stories start to make more sense. i almost started crying when dave was telling us about some of these dear ones. its amazing to see them now, see how the Lord has rescued them from the pit and used people to show them love and bring them healing. knowing their past gives me more of a burden to show as much love, patience, and compassion as i possibly can. i have to give them all the love i can possibly squeeze out of my heart. its hard when you think about how easy we have things and how we grew up in a safe place with a loving family and then other kids just didnt. but praise God that they are in a loving home now.