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First off, we can’t thank you enough for all your comments!  It makes us so happy and excited to hear from all of you at home, and knowing that you are a part of this mission too!  We are of course keeping everyone’s prayer intentions in mind (with your prayer intentions now written on our calendar) and praying for you during mass, adoration, rosary, and all other times of the day we are praying.

God sure has his way of making each town’s oratory unique in.  Last week, in Charity we had about 60 kids each day who would get there an hour early some of which even came to the house to get us.  This week week in Henrieta we found ourselves with no children at the start time of 3:00 PM.  WOW!  Knowing that it was God’s plan for us to be there, we headed outside with our frisbees and balls in hand and started playing.  As the kids passed by on their way

Come Play

home from school we started shouting…”Hey, do you want to play?”  After many kids walked by without interest, a group of 4 girls with the biggest smiles on their faces said “SURE!”  Slowly but surely we ended up with about 20 kids that day.  As the week progressed and as we got to know the kids better, we realized that many of them didn’t go to church, but were excited to learn about God.  Throughout the week our first four girls showed a special interest, in Jesus’ true presence in the Eucharist and the Blessed Mother.  One of the little girls, Dawnica, who we ended up nicknaming ‘the fighter’ because she has such a spirit of perservance, had been showing much interest in the rosary and the Blessed Mother.  Yesterday while all the kids where playing outside, Dawnica wandered herself into the church.    We walked in after her and another girl and showed them the Tabernacle and explained how Jesus is always there waiting for us.  We then walked over to the Blessed Mother, and Dawnica calmly started gently stroking the statue of Our Lady.  We explained to her that Mary was everyone’s mother, and then asked her if she knew anyone without a mommy.  She then looked us in the eyes and said that her mom had died.  We looked her straight in the eye and told her, “This is  your mommy who will always be with you where ever you are.  You go to her and pray to her and she’ll take care of you.”   Wow!  Our Lord and Our Lady knew what they were doing when they picked her as one of the four off of the street!

Other highlights include:

A big rat in the house livening things up after dinner….thankfully Sr. Paciencia and Sr. Santo were there to save us with the brooms and the mops….that ole rat even went into our room!!!!!

Sandy’s first time making Curry for the boys in the Dorm…”wow, I’ve never seen so much rice in my life”

Petting our first parrot and hanging around with a spider monkey.

Allie and Sr. Pacienca hitch hiking a canoe ride down the river to deliver food to the families in need.

Scaring a baby cow and nearly killing it….we’ll explain later.

First time for public transportation….we never knew that so many people could fit in a minibus.

Strolling down the Atlantic coast and discovering “quick sand”

Ok gotta go work hard for the One we love!!!!

God Bless!

Allie and Sandy

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