It's another beautiful day here in Guatemala. This week my team is working with monroy school. We are trying to get some information accross to the parents of the children. As I've said in earlier posts, si provides benefits such as eye glasses and vitamins to the kids here, but often times the parents have difficulty understanding why their children need these things; so the goal with the parent meeting this week is to try to explain why the vitamins and eyeglasses are positive things and to encourage parents to encourage their children.
I've Been here a month and a week and I can't believe that time has just flown by, I love it here and everyday I spend here I can feel God opening my heart to the field of missions. I'm the kind of person that likes to know what's in the cards but god doesn't do it that way.
On Tuesday we visited a woman who's father in law just died. The father in law had a large morgage And a previous wife that he never divorced. This woman and her husband were living in a on room home that was a part of the morgage. Here in Guatemala, when a father dies, his debts are passed on to his son, so that's a large source of stress for her and her family because they barely have enough money to feed the family in the first place. They are also living in fear that the previous wife could claim the land because she is still technically married to the father in law. The father has fallen in to a deeply depressive state and there's no relief in site. Si is going to put together a food basket and offer some support, but the truth is that this is just one of the stories that ive seen since I got here. The truth is that these situation are incredibly common and because of them millions of kids go to school hungry everyday here. Even though this woman is struggling though, she still spoke thanking god and let us pray with her...I long to have that kind of devotion and once again the people here have given me something I could never give them.
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