Ambitious Ideas

Today was a wonderful day. Matt is quite the prayer warrior, so I really think that is having a huge impact on my day. We've been praying together a lot about the day ahead and even as we walk up to the juvenile home. It's been a bit difficult b/c he is super homesick and missing his girlfriend really bad. But I think he's working through some of that and hopefully can adjust soon. I mean it's only a month...in any case, we spent today writing the pen pal letters with the kids. i'm so excited to send them to you guys. the english is not perfect at all but they seemed so excited about it. lots of them were drawing kenyan flags on the letter. they also taught me a bit about playing soccer today. it was quite funny, especially b/c i was running around in a skirt.

so matt has inspired me to become ambitious. i had thought about doing a mural at this school but i didn't want to jump into it. i know from doing this at MCS that it is a huge undertaking but also very rewarding. but matt brought it up as an idea. and we asked for permission today. so now we have to find paint and brushes, hopefully we won't have to look forever here. and really anything will look better than the plain white walls that currently exist. we taped up all sorts of their collages and posters today in some of the classrooms and it looks better already. please pray for this idea. i know it's going to be a little crazy. i don't think matt has any idea what we're getting into and probably not me either. in any case, we're just diving in and trying our best.

oscar, another spanish volunteer there maybe in his 40's?, seems to have other great ideas about things to do with the kids. he wants to take the 8th graders on some sort of bus trip outing when they finish their year end exam in november. so i think a lot of people are trying to really love on them. oh, and oscar is a painter...so God is already helping us out here. he lived in prague for a while before coming here. he had some really good job, so he was able to simply quit and travel with friends for a while. we passed out the socks that i bought for them today. one of the class 8 kids got up and made a speech about being so grateful. and then he said may God bless you for what you have done.