From Kelly...

Hola again,

John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."

I gave my prayer shawl to a disabled child who lived a bit farther away from the camp site who we got to meet yesterday. She couldn't think, nor walk (she was in a wheel chair). The only thing she could do was flail her arms around and turn her head in almost every direction. I also got the opportunity to pray over her and her mother. The father wasn't present at the moment, he was working on something important. I was half way through my prayer when I felt her calm down and just look at me. I could honestly feel her at peace and didn't care about anything that was going on around her. She would just stare at me and just sit there quietly. The mother told me that she had never done that before, and that there was something different about me that she just couldn't explain. I was almost ready to cry on the child and remind her that she is created in God's own image and never let her go, but sadly we had other things to do.

This verse I put up there is one thatIi gave a special child, who lived in the site I was helping to build a new home and a new restroom. But today we just spent our last day with the children. Some of us prayed over them and a lot of us cried with them. We started off doing a puppet skit for the children and sang some songs in Spanish. We also had lunch with them after the activity.

During lunch we announced that it was our last day and we noticed two of the children crying in their seats as we shared our lunch with them. A lot of us had a really big problem saying good bye to the children and the families knowing that they did more for us than we did for them. I had a child who gave me his Bible. I found out it was in Spanish and I didn't exactly feel like I was the right person to receive such a special gift from him. I tried to convince him to keep the Bible and that our team should write our names and our favorite bible verse in the front page. Sadly that didn't happen. I ended up feeling really guilty for receiving such an important gift and that I didn't bring anything for him. So I ripped out one of the blank pieces of paper in the back of the Bible/Biblia, and wrote down my name and my favorite bible verse for him. I also got the rest of the team to put down their names and favorite bible verses. I was crying like there was no tomorrow.

The boy who gave me this amazing gift, was a boy who goes by Jose. Jose's brother was the last boy I got to talk to and give him my last goodbyes. He said to me, "Please don't go, or take me with you..." After hearing this, I was on my knees holding this boy close to me wondering, "How do I respond to this?" The next thing I knew he ran away from me crying. I tried to go out and find him and tell him I was sorry but for some reason he couldn't look at me. I asked him if he was going to be fine and he said yes with a sad face and tears rolling down his face. I went in my van and I was looking around for him to wave good bye, but he disappeared. I was so overwhelmed with what happened that everything else just didn't matter at all.

After saying good bye to everyone, we went to another site and had an outreach where we did our skits and songs again. We did this in a park not far from Vida y Esperanza. I stayed there till about 10pm and got back to do our debriefing. It was shorter than I thought it would be. We were asked only two deep questions and was really hard to answer.

I can't wait for tomorrow. We get to sleep in until 8:30! We normally get up at about 7:15, so this is going to be amazing. And right now were are going to go to a school and do our skits and puppetry there. We also may be getting some new missionaries to come and stay where we are at. Mainly after the skit we are going to come back to the camp site, have lunch and go out to shop until around 4:30 and head over to a Guatemala steak house.

Missions Impact offered to buy us dinner for the last night we will be in Guatemala. I can't wait to get some rest for tomorrow.

Please be praying for us to have a safe flight back.

Kelly Fiallo