This past trip.....

Once again, my heart fell in love with these kids. I can't really explain the love I have for them. I think I can only liken it to that of a parent. I know it's from God. I pray and pray for God to enlargen my heart like David did in Psalm 119:32.

I will run the course of Your commandments,
For You shall enlarge my heart.

I know I am called to this ministry. To this place. I would like everyone to experience what I do when I'm there, but you can't. We can't. We're all called to different things in life. I am excited as to where God is calling the Clouds, Hoovers, Pinners, Howards, Astons in regards to their new church responsibilities. I am also excited to see where the Smiths, DD, Michelle, and others end out in the next year or two. I know that we're all being called to do God's work right now, and some of us in different places. I am stoked about this.

Everyone ended out cancelling in the last week for this past trip, except for me, Susie, and Jordan. It ended out being awesome. There were 3 other Americans staying in guest quarters (Emily, Ryan, and Jordan). They were actually down there because they hope to start an orphanage (Dia por los Ninos) in a Spanish-speaking country in 5-10 years. There ended out being 3 separate groups of Americans and a couple that came down from Nogales, Sonora, so there were plenty of people loving on the kids. We were able to fellowship and play a little Hold 'em.

I currently have 365 pictures and 15 videos that I need to go through and edit. There were originally over 950, but I have minimized it as much as I can. Well over half of the pics were taken by Jesus. He has an eye and a heart for photography, and I would never be able to stifle that in him. Here is one of my favorite pictures that he took:



This picture was taken of Angel right after he finished getting a drink of water from a hose. Jesus was just standing there waiting for him to be done and look up. I thought he took the picture of him when he was drinking. It's so cute because after every picture he took, he'd say "woohoo, perfecto".

Please pray for all of the kids as they started school this week. Most of their backpacks were brought down last night. I think they still have lots of school supplies that are needed. I will update you all later with that. Please also pray for me. I know I am called to go, but now I'm just waiting to hear when. I am tempted to go down there this weekend and to back out of the camping trip. However, I know that I need fellowship and that I am going down in two weeks.... so I just need to be patient.