Happy August, everybody! I can't believe it's august already! That means this summer's almost over, has flown by, and is almost time when no more groups will be here.
A group left last Friday and we won't have another until tomorrow. That means we've had some great rest days lately.
Today we, Alyssa, Josh, Rachel, Amber, and I, drove to Mogote and picked up 14 kids and took them to the river to go swimming. It was so awesome to see them so happy with such a simple thing as hanging out in cold dirty river water, some naked, some in tighty-whities. You don't have to do or give much to make them excitingly happy. About 7 of them are brothers and sisters of a 12 kid household, whom I wrote about the other day. All of them are neighbors and are so well-behaved and get a long really well. It gives us such joy just to sit them on our laps and love on them as much as we want. they have the most beautiful smiles and spirits. They are enthralled at our house, checking out the washer and dryer like they are fascinating robots from another world( which is actually a good description as far as they're concerned), going through our cubbords when they think we're not looking, and their favorite is the bathroom, which is different because it's inside with a toilet and running water. They range in age from 15 to one year. Then we brought them back to our house, gave them snacks, cleaned them up a bit, and took all except the one year old to the grocery store. I am here at the house with her because she's napping.
I've never been to the store with any of the kids but Amber has and she says its like going to the carnival for them. They love riding on the "rides", or shopping carts, as we call them. They just went to go get dinner but aaaaalll the kids wanted to go. Usually they don't go with their mom's when they go shopping and they don't shop in the store, they shop at the outside market downtown or other smaller places.
I will try to post more pictures later. I can hear them all coming back now, and I need to find my camera cable for my computer.
Blessings!
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