The team arrived on Thursday - I thought they were coming Friday (thanks Jorge for telling me the wrong day...) No big deal though, it was a nice surprise to see them arrive on Thursday...
They are a team of 8 - 7 females and Father John Chakos. Father John and his wife, Presbytera (sorry if I butchered the spelling on that, Greeky Greeks...) Sandy are two amazing people! They adopted an 12 year old, Jenny about 9 years ago from the Hogar. She is now 21, staying with me in my living quarters, and she is very sweet! It's so fun hearing her stories about living here, coming back to see the children, and how much she loves them all. Very inspirational... I will post pictures later next week when I actually take some of their family.
Today we went to the monastery for the morning and walked around, I had the tour for about the 5th time in 7 weeks... it's always good to refresh the following; how the coffee is made, what the plans are with the orphanage there, and the most interesting part to me: how much longer until they're there... It's beautiful though - here's a few pictures of the progress there...
Nothing too much else is new, I am going with the team and all of the "Senoritas" (teenage girls) on Monday to the ocean for the whole day... I am looking forward to this because it's been about 10 days since I've gotten to go out of the orphanage (besides the monastery today...which was wonderful) but it will be nice to go somewhere new... :)
I suppose that's it for now... Keeping all of my family and friends in prayer!!!
xoxo
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