December

Juana smiling with her new sweater

(I had this blog written up, but forgot to post it until now)

We had our Christmas fiesta for the widows.  It was a time of celebrating what has been accomplished, a time to reflect, and a time to look towards the future.

A church in Pennsylvania, through our good friend Adrienne, donated a large sum of money to buy the widows Christmas gifts.
It gets rather cold up in the mountains of Chiminisiguan, so we bought them warm sweaters. We were also able to buy them food, nice baskets, sugar, soap for washing clothes, body soap, and some other useful things for their homes.  

The women were so grateful, and even smiled.  By the end of the party they were giving us whatever they had on them, food, baskets, hugs out of gratefulness. 

It's was a good year...and I am truly blessed to have been able to be apart of these women's lives.