I can’t even believe we are about to leave this place tomorrow. It seems like we just got here, like I was just getting to know the true hearts of these people, and it has been beautiful. Tomorrow is going to be a hard day but a good day. These people have given so much to us while we have been here. I have received so much love from them. From day one I have been hoping this day would never come, and now it is here. The other night we had a talk with Tommy and Linda, to wrap up our time here. During this time someone asked what the kids are like after we leave. Linda responded that they mourn like crazy, they are sad, they hurt. This 
broke me down, there was no way to hold back the tears. It is hard to know that I am leaving these people and in that I am hurting them. She said that there are some people here that will be asking about us for years to come. That is how much of an impact one month can have on a single person, even if we never talk to them again they could possibly be asking about us and how we are doing years from now. The thought of possibly never seeing them again breaks my heart. Then Tommy followed that up with the fact that some people are so scared of goodbye’s that people don’t even say hello anymore. That people don’t even try to start a relationship because they know at some point they will have to say bye. Where is the joy in that? Doesn’t that just leave a person feeling empty? This month has made me realize that it is better to love hard and make it hurt, than to be to scared to love at all. When it hurts you know it is real. I am going to hurt tomorrow and I know that there will be other people that are going to be hurting too, but in this lives are being changed. They have impacted us and we have impacted them and in all of this God is moving. Even if I only get to see New Song in Candelaria, Nicaragua for this one month there is no doubt that I will remember this place and these people for the rest of my life. Even though it hurts it is worth it all, I can say that I truly love these people.
broke me down, there was no way to hold back the tears. It is hard to know that I am leaving these people and in that I am hurting them. She said that there are some people here that will be asking about us for years to come. That is how much of an impact one month can have on a single person, even if we never talk to them again they could possibly be asking about us and how we are doing years from now. The thought of possibly never seeing them again breaks my heart. Then Tommy followed that up with the fact that some people are so scared of goodbye’s that people don’t even say hello anymore. That people don’t even try to start a relationship because they know at some point they will have to say bye. Where is the joy in that? Doesn’t that just leave a person feeling empty? This month has made me realize that it is better to love hard and make it hurt, than to be to scared to love at all. When it hurts you know it is real. I am going to hurt tomorrow and I know that there will be other people that are going to be hurting too, but in this lives are being changed. They have impacted us and we have impacted them and in all of this God is moving. Even if I only get to see New Song in Candelaria, Nicaragua for this one month there is no doubt that I will remember this place and these people for the rest of my life. Even though it hurts it is worth it all, I can say that I truly love these people.
This is also a video that Weston made about some of our time here this month, with a few of the kids that we have become close to. Enjoy!
