Meet M

This past Sunday we moved a new girl into the house! Her name is M and is 23 years old. She has a 5 month old daughter named S. They are from the community of La Fe where some of my teammates work. They had been living in a small house with M's mom, younger sister, older sister, and her older sister's 3 kids. She was very determined to find Shannon and is very eager to know more of the Lord. A neighbor told her she should find Shannon a few weeks ago and told her where the used clothing store run by Puerta de Esperanza was. Even after going to the store and the girls telling her they couldn't give her Shannon's number she wasn't discouraged. Somehow she found out where Shannon's fiancé works and showed up at his garage. That is determination! The first time Lesther brought M to meet Shannon and I we had a short-term team from the states and were out to dinner with them. M hadn't brought any diapers (because she was out and had been using t-shirts as cloth diapers) so I walked to a gas station next door and bought her 8 diapers. A week and a half later when I picked her up for church she told me she still had diapers left. How? Because she was still using her make-shift cloth diapers at home and saving the real ones for when she left the house because they are easier. 

From the first time we met her 2 weeks ago she said she wasn't a Christian but would make comments like she was. So, last week when we took her to visit the house and then out to lunch Shannon clearly explained the gospel and M prayed with Shannon! Pray for her as her life is going through big changes right now. Pray also for C and Y as they are feeling a little jealous of all the extra attention she is getting. Pray for their hearts and that they would have grace for her and remember that they were where she was not too long ago.

Busy Days

This week the house mom is on vacation. That means that both girls and babies are staying with us. Add in Shannon's soon to be children and we have a full house of kids. Just thought I would share a few funny moments from the past few days.....
8 year old Angel went with me to the ATM yesterday. The first ATM we went to was out of money (of course, why would an ATM have money??) so I said, "Well they were out of money so we'll go to a different one. We get to the next one and it gives me my money. Sweet Angel says, "Oh look, your money was in the this one that's why the other one didn't have any." We get back home and he tells everyone, "We had to go to 2 ATM's to find Jennifer's money!"
Later that afternoon one of the kids asked where Kate was. We said, "She went to Hawaii to visit a friend." Nicole says, "Oh, she went to 'howareyou' to visit a friend."
W got made because the older kids were playing Wii and wouldn't give him a controller so he found a toy shaped like a controller and proceeded to stand between the other kids and the TV with his toy and dance.
J got to learn about Pinterest this morning. She was sitting with me on the couch and saw a picture that had bright colors and said, "ooooo". I said, "J do you like that pretty picture?" She replies, "Si, me gusta!!" This funny girl understands all our English but mostly responds in Spanish.

In the midst of all this craziness we also met a potential new girl to come a live at the house. M is 23 and has a 4 month old baby daughter. Pray for her and for decisions to be made. She went through a lot of effort to find Shannon including going to the store where the girls work and eventually going to the garage where Shannon's fiance Lesther works.