Staying on Top

Woo! Sorry guys, I´m still alive and kicking, I swear! Can I just say that this has been incredible? I have learned so much in my time here. Every day I learn something new! I am staying really busy, even when I´m not at work, due to the many committees I am on. Everything is super organized here; there´s a food committee, a housing committee, an activities committee, and a communications committee! And then there are site leaders for the different places we volunteer. I am grateful for planners; mine put my life back into order! In fact, I think that here I am more organized than I was back at home. Crazy! Hmm. ¿Que más? I went ziplining and learned to have a spirit of adventure! I think that Life´s Little Book of Instructions is the best thing ever! I am drawing a self-portrait of myself! I eat monkey brains and caterpillar bread! It is surprisingly cold for a country located on the equator! It rains every day! I haven´t been sick for a week! My birthday is in a week! I get to Skype with my mama tomorrow morning! I´m wearing a llama jacket right now! Okay, enough, enough. haha. Life is just beautiful, that´s all. Some day I will put pictures up...it takes a very very long time. haha. I love these kids.

Do Something That Scares You Every Day

Today that scary thing was getting pink eye. I know, I am brave! haha. I could use any spare prayers you have floating around so I can pull my weight again!

Well, I have not updated this thing in a while! I am definitely feeling at home here now. I love the children. I now am specializing with a group of special needs kids aged 3-5. And I love them. They are my babies!

A lot of my time here has been thinking about motherhood. Right now is really just the time to practice and experiment. Before I came, I was a pushover with children. They could walk all over me! Now though, I have learned to be kind and firm. The children respect me more for it. I´m having difficulty finding a balance now though. Where is the line between letting kids be kids and being a drill sargeant? One of my least favorite things to see is a child being told no to pretty much everything they do. If my childhood had been that way, I would have turned out a lot different!

In other news, conference was this weekend and I got to watch a few sessions when I was off! Hopefully I can catch up on the rest later today. I feel like the theme of conference was service. So many people talked about serving the poor! I have heard it repeated again and again to serve everyone around me, and that is what I will be focusing on more. The children definitely need love, and so do the volunteers! I hope to be there for my brothers and sisters in the work, because they are the best this world has got. :)

Watch conference here!