Casa-Tesoro De Dios
Today was my day off. I was fortunate enough to go to the orphanage
that my Dad and siblings worked on in March.
The owner of the place, Pastor Joel, and I had talked on facebook and he
agreed to come pick me up from Monkey Jungle.
He arrived with his son around 10:30 to get me. I was anxious about meeting him, and all the
kids as well. I had heard such good
things about this man from my family, but its always a little scary to meet
someone new for the first time, especially in a third world country, & when
your n ot fluent in the language!
Pastor
Joel was very nice! Drove like a crazy
man, which most locals do! (On a side
note, one thing I’ve noticed every time I get in the car with someone local, is
that their gas gage is ALWAYS on E! I
first thought it was because of the price of gas being so high, but I have
learned that 97% of the gages down here don’t work! So when the gage says E, they may have a full
tank! I just don’t look anymore!) Anyway, we made it to the orphanage safely
and I was immediately greeted by many of the children. All of them were absolutely beautiful! I fell in love right away. I had told Pastor Joel that I wanted to meet
Daniel, a boy that my father had met and is hoping to bring to the United States
to live with our family for a while.
Pastor Joel introduced us right away!
He is an amazing young man. He
spent all afternoon doing work (hard physical labor) around the orphanage
cutting the grass with a machete, building a new shed for the pig, etc.
The
thing that touched me the most was how happy these children are with so
little. Some of them didn’t even have
shoes on, most had non-matching clothes, and were playing with things like a
flat basketball, and yet they were so content!
I had been thinking lately that I wasn’t sure if I wanted to have
children, but after this experience, I truly feel it would be a waste for me to
not share the many blessings and lessons I’ve received and learned from my
parents. I have decided I WILL adopt
some day.
I spent
the afternoon with the kids, let the girls paint my finger nails, played with
the pupp, ate lunch and then it was time to head back to Monkey Jungle. On the way, Pastor Joel stopped to see a few
of his friends, which was about every block.
This man knew everyone in town!
The final stop we made was to have his tires replaced. (MJ is a long ways up a really rough road)
This was quite an experience in itself!
We pull off the side of the busy road, the only road between the two
towns. The little shack like building
next to us is a tire shop. They send
four guys to the car with a jack and start changing tires right in the middle
of the road. It was nuts! After the craziness was over I returned to
MJ, and thanked Pastor Joel for everything!
Sorry I cant upload pictures! I will continue to try!
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