Hennerys suit

I wanted to share a story of how you supporting me impacts and helps the individuals in Guatemala and changes their lives. One day one of our students Hennery came back to our dorm after being in the mountains to visit his family. He seemed really sad and not himself. Later that day we found out that he went home to try and ask his family for money for a suit that he needed to be able to graduate for high school. He goes to a privet school and to graduate from that school you have to have a special suit that cost about $150 US. He had no idea how he was going to pay for it and felt like he just wasted 5 years of his life in school and now couldn’t graduate because he did not have a suit. Later that day when all of us interns where talking we put our money together and bought Hennery his suit. When we told him that we were going to by him his suit he all most started crying (people in the mountains don’t usually show much emotion, so that was a very touching moment). He kept asking us why we were doing that for him. And we were able to tell him because God put him in our lives for a purpose and that God cares about his future as much as we do. That anyone that lives under our roof is our family and we want to see them succeed. So the money you give me enables me to buy things like this for people that will impact them for the rest of their lives.

I want to go down to Guatemala for at least one more year. I fell that this year will be a very important year for me in deciding where God wants me permanently; if that is in Guatemala or somewhere else. For me to be able to stay in Guatemala for one more year I need $8,000 more. If you would like to give a donation and want it to be tax deductible please write a check out to Front Line Kids and send it to me (please email me at amandaculver911@gmail.com for my mailing address). Or you can give online at www.youcaring.com/mission-trip-fundraiser/guatamanda/234327 but if you give online it will not be tax deductible.                                   

(All of us with Hennery the morning of His big exam)

Coming home

Well, I have been back in the States for about a month now. I am not going to lie it took me some time to get used to being back. I love being here with friends and family, but it was really hard for me to see the difference between the life of the people that live in the remote villages of Guatemala and the life we live here. Even in there poverty and struggle to live, their lives seam to be so much more carefree and simple.  We seem to have everything but are so empty and feel we have no purpose.

As many of you know I am going back to Guatemala for another year. I will be leaving in November. I really feel that this year is going to be a big deciding point in my life.  I will be making a decision if I am supposed to stay in Guatemala and have a more permeate position with Faith in Action or return home. I love Guatemala and the people there. Some of my favorite things I have done are working with the kids and people in the mountains just living life with them. Working in the clinic helping with medical care and dentistry has been a real favorite too. I have loved helping with a few sick and malnourished babies and kids that we have had. With the ignorance of simple diseases and lack of knowledge of basic medical care, people and kids die of thing they should never die from. I have a growing passion for the kids and teens in Guatemala. I have loved working with sick babies and watching them get healthy with just some basic medical care. And I love being in our high school dorm with the teens helping them with anything from craft projects to homework; and just living life with them, being an open ear, and just being there to be a friend. There would be nothing I would change about my year in Guatemala and I can’t wait to go back.

Keep checking my blog because I am going to write a few of my highlight stories and favorite memories from my year that I have not shared yet.                                 

                            This is Maria a little girl we had the first mouth I was in Guatemala.
                                                                                                                             

                                                            Helping with dentistry.

 

A little malnourished Boy that we were able to help get the proper medical care and medicine he needed.

 

                                                    One of the students in the dorm.

                                                       All of the kids in the dorm.