Barefoot Missionary.: 8 Days till Christmas!

Yesterday I finally got around to making a Christmas countdown chain. Naturally, we were out of red and green construction paper. So my first step was coloring white paper red and green. (I think you're actually supposed to do this at the beginning of December, but a week before the holiday works too, I guess.) ...Pretty much a normal week. Blossom twice, taught letter 'H' to Landon, got to visit the neighbor kid's fun day at their school.
This afternoon Mom, Pat, Kirby, and I took play-dough, crayons, and coloring pictures down to some of the neighbor kids since their Christmas break started yesterday. And we made pink play-dough snowmen. Can we please have a snowstorm down here just ONCE? Man, these kids would have a blast. (And probably freeze to death, but hey, fun over comfort. Or something like that.) Mom and I then went to see a neighbor lady who had a baby a few weeks ago... The mom wasn't home but some of the kids were...Amanda and Ashaunti, 12 and 8, sang to us. Who knew that poor Jamaican children knew "Go, Light Your World"? These girls both have beautiful voices and they get all soul-ish and gospel with their singing. And make up the words they don't know. (If you buy me a video camera, I will video them and post it on here. A win-win situation, I'd say. A missionary family has a video camera and you get to see these adorable girls sing. Just mail it on down.)

Life is definately not always easy down here. I struggle with loneliness at times. My faith is not always strong. But I'm so grateful that God has given me the opportunity to live in a different culture, meet a new kind of people, experience another way of living. I love meeting the neighbor kids who live all around us and spending time with them. I pray I will learn the lessons God wants to teach me while I'm here.