Getting Started

Yesterday we had to go shopping for all of our groceries, and the supplies we need to do our activities with the kids in CIPI and at The Promise House. I won't even go into how difficult that was. (The market here is so inefficient.)
Anyway. After that we went to The Promise House. I was greeted with a huge hug and "LYDIA" from Glenda, which is always nice. We found out that they are slowly shutting down The Promise House. They are sending girls to wherever they can. (I haven't gotten all the details. As soon as I know more, so will you.) CIPI is where girls/kids go as a kind of midpoint place. They stay there (typically only a few months) until they find somewhere else to stay. (I believe. Things in El Salvador are never very clear.) It was good to see the girls last night, but I was definitely glad to get into a bed when we finally got home.

Today we woke up bright and early (7) and went to CIPI. We are working in the library that Orphan Helpers has just opened. For the most part, it's the same group of girls in there for most of the day. So we taught about Creation. (For it, mom). And we made a book with pictures for each day. (Which is actually quite hard to do, because when you think light you think "sun" but God didn't create the sun until the 4th day, and when he created the sea animals, he didn't create the animals on ground, etc) But we got it done, and it actually ended up being pretty great.
At our lunch break, Johanna (who is helping us) offered to take us to the nursery. Our answer was, of course, yes. On our way there, she was explaining that these kids were either found abandonded in the street, or they were just left in the hospital to be put up for adoption. As soon as we walked in, though, I ran into one of the girls who was in The Promise House the past two years (Marta) which was VERY exciting. (Her son, Miguel, is the ham in all of my pictures from every year.) We went into the baby room and found two new borns (one 11 days old, one 13 days old), neither of them have names yet. They were the smallest babies I have ever held. And perfect. Absolutely perfect... I need to stop before I start crying... It just hit me that this was someone's child. A woman carried this baby for 9 months, birthed her, and then just gave her up. No name. Nothing... Think of what kind of position you have to be in to make that decision.
Well, beyond the depressing part of the day.
We then went to The Promise House and spent about an hour with the girls and kids, which was funny. Katie told me "It's weird to think that we've only been here two days. I feel like we've been here weeks already"
Which I think pretty much sums up these past two days.

I'm glad God has blessed me enough to give me this opportunity, and I'm glad He has given me Katie this year to be with me. (I'd be sooo lost without her.)

There's so much more I'd like to write, but I'm sure if anyone IS still reading, they're about ready to quit.
So that's all for tonight.

I'll try to write more tomorrow, (we're spending our first full day at The Promise House, so that will be entertaining), but I'm using the house computer, so it's kind of hard to get to time to write all of this.