I love Mexico. I don't just love the kids, but I love the culture as well. It's things like this that just make so much sense to combine. Why should we seperate the sports? I had a much better picture of one of these with the actual hoop and basket and with the net for the soccer goal as well, but let's just say that my boy deleted 400 pictures off of my camera on Saturday - and it was one of those. Patty and I rocked it and climbed over 2 fences each way... even over chainlink while yet under the barbwire. She even scraped her knee and started bleeding just to get the other pic... but at least this one still gets the point across.
This was a great weekend. It was really casual, and I feel like I got to spend a lot of one on one time with the kids. There have been some that I have been wanting to be able to spend some time with, and I was able to spend some with them.
There was a group of 22 people that came down on Saturday and were there part day on Sunday as well. It's always great to meet new people down there and see them fall in love with the kids. I was very blessed by them, I could see their hearts growing before me, and they truly wanted to know their stories and how things worked there. One of them also told me on Sunday morning that they had prayed for my ministry to CdE the night before and that God would bless me. I was so shocked and blessed. God knows that I need all I can get. :)
Lots of people assume that kids in orphanages have horrible lives, and then there are ones like Door of Faith and even Casa de Elizabeth to where people think that most of them have it pretty well off and are all set for the future... Well, I just found out this past weekend that 3 of them don't know how to read or write. I'm not talking about the ones 6 and under... I'm talking about 2 10-year old boys and a 15 year old girl. It's absolutely crazy. I was spending time with one of the girls that isn't a strong reader when one of the boys had her write a note for him... I was shocked. I know they have tutors and that they are in school, so I really need to know what level they are at. I want to bring down some beginning writing and reading supplies for them and maybe make this a monthly ongoing project. I'm going to ask for it, because they obviously need more help than what they are getting. If anyone has any ideas of where to get some Spanish reading/writing materials for beginners, I would greatly appreciate it.