Its a sad happy day when someone leaves the orphanage, Mateo will miss his friend as she leaves with her four siblings back to their parents. Care is taken to make sure the home is fit for the children but you can't help but feel a little nervous about them going back. and at the same time you know in the long run the best place to be is with your own family. I am grateful to have gotten to know every child and when they go you wonder if you couldn't have spent just a little more time than you did. I don't know why it always turns out this way but we were gone again to Lima working on Tahlia's visa when the kids left, so no good byes. It seems to make no difference how long they were here, when they go its always hard, 8 kids gone in the last two weeks and 5 new ones came. I love watching as their faces change over the first few days, some don't change as much but some are just like night and day.


Bruce is gone to Canada so we are on our own again, it makes it a little difficult but you learn to just prioritise and do what you can. Just another three and a half weeks until John and Cindy come for a visit, I am very much looking forward to that. And a week after that a team of doctors and nurses are coming for a day visit to do check ups for the kids and VBS. Its gonna be great. God is always moving, sometimes we can't see it but he's always planning and working around the decisions we make. To us it sometimes looks like God makes quick decisions we see a need met and we think wow God sent that person at just the right time, but what we don't see is how long God prepared that person long before we knew there was a need. So if God is putting you in a situation that just doesn't seem to make sense, just trust Him, He may be getting you ready for something you are completely unaware of. Jesus I praise you and thank you for the privilege to be in your presence. Glory to God in the highest, praise his name amen. bless you.