here we are in week 2 of month 11. i’d explain how i feel about that…but i don’t know how i feel. i thought the emotions i’d feel so close to the end would be overwhelming but instead i am just living like normal…like i still have months and months left of this – kind of like how i felt before i left – expecting to have a lot more emotion than i actually did. maybe it’s my coping mechanism. or maybe i have so many emotions that i feels like i don’t actually have any. i don’t know.
anyways, this place is pretty sweet. were working with a very established ministry in Puerto Barrio, Guatemala. it’s a two port town and all the bananas that are shipped to the US are shipped out from here – making 12 amazingly fresh bananas cost a dollar. my potassium levels are probably dangerously high.
they do so many different types of ministry but the main one that we have been working with is working with the families who live at the dump. if you’ve never experienced this type of ministry before, it’s an overwhelmingly heartbreaking site to see the shacks outskirting the piles of trash. we take food that is donated to the dump, mix baby formula and hand it out to the people there, as this ministry does one or twice a week. we hang out with the kids for a few hours and love on them.
there are a group of guatemalan teenage boys that volunteer with the ministry who teach the kids how to breakdance and taught them a choreography to a dance that they will perform for a leadership conference at our host’s church that we’re helping with next weekend.
we are getting to be exposed to so many different things, love on so many different people and really end this thing with a solid, Jesus centered finish. it’s an incredible ministry and it’s awesome to be part of something that is so tangibly helping people that are so obviously in need.
i still feel as if this post should have more emotion, more sentiment and a more melancholy feel. i’m not denying that i will transition back to america horrendously or that i won’t miss these people that have been my family for eleven months – because i know those things are true. but i think maybe the concept of “2 more weeks” hasn’t quite hit me yet. so here’s to a really good couple more weeks…thanks for praying me through the end! love you all!
