Felicidades!

Some of the internas with their gifts

Marinita on the new bicycle!

Felicidades! Today is “el Dia de los Niños,” the day when we give gifts to the children, for being children. Since I’ve been here there has been at least four festivals to celebrate something or other, today has been my favorite though. We had three cakes that we shared between We also gave them all the presents I brought from Arizona, each girl received a pencil and a hair tie. It was wonderful to see them so happy. I want to tell you about this festival, because there is a reason why there are so many festivals, because the suffering here is so great, there is always need to lift the spirits. Every day we here about something bad that happened to someone’s family. First with the massacre in Mexico, and then there was a whole bus load of people killed on the road here from San Pedro Sula, one of the cipota’ cousin's murdered someone and then ran and now they fear that the family of the victim are going to kill the other family and burn their house down when they are sleeping in revenge although the whole town knows it was not their fault. Another one of the internas has been sad all day because the aunt that she lives with was supposed to come today to see her and she didn’t, although she hasn’t seen her in four weeks. This interna’s parents have lived in the United States for the past nine years, and she has lived passed from one family to another separated from her other bothers and sisters who are still here in Honduras too. “El Día de los Niños” makes everyone happy for a moment, like all the other festivals, but as I saw as we all went to mass today, nothing brings peace except God. The sisters know this, and the girls are learning this. You can have everything you materially need, and still be so unhappy, or you can have nothing and still have reason to celebrate, because you have God. I am amazed every time I see these girls and these sisters celebrate. Life here is not really life without God, I pray that I can see past all that stuff I have and see how useless it is. Until then Felicidades and Please Enjoy life, it is great! Good night!

Santos won one of the raffles!