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.