Our Mission in South America: Update on our life.

Sorry we haven't written in a while, we have been pretty busy! Our work in the home for troubled teenage girls is coming to an end. Tomorrow is our last day. Our time with them was interesting. They didn't need our help operationally, so our time was spent helping with homework, teaching a little English, playing cards or doing crafts. The most important thing we did, was be emotional support for them. Being away from their families, having their friends leave, not being able to go outside, and just the fact alone that they are teenage girls, leads to a lot of tears. So we are there to comfort them and talk them through it. We are really able to relate to them in a way, being teenage girls ourselves and also having not seen our families for five months.

Kelli was able to teach a fifteen year old girl how to read. It was really an incredible experience for Kelli and Jhovana! During the weekends we help out at an orphanage for little babies. They only have two women taking care of 18 children on the weekends, so we are very much needed. After this weekend we will be heading to Cusco Peru, through a few of the major cities here in Bolivia. We will arrive in Cuzco on or around the 10th of Feb. When we will begin a 5 day retreat with the Missionary Sisters of the Poor of the Third World. We are very excited for a break!
Please continue to keep us in your prayers! We are doing very well, except a short trip the the hospital the other night to get Andrea rehydrated and get the appropriate medicine to treat yet another gastrointestinal infection. She's doing much better now! We love and miss you all.
Andrea and Kelli

Some picture updates!

Small house on our way to Siete Cascadas "Seven Waterfalls."

The first and second waterfalls at Siete Cascadas! We swam in the second! To get there for us, it was about a 5hr walk that should have been 1hr. We went with the brother of our host mother, and we got lost about 4 times. It was so scary! We were afraid we were going to die a few times because of how steep the mountain we were trying to get down was! We were very grateful to God to finally arrive and get to swim! It was our first time swimming in 5 months! The water was freezing and really dirty but it was still great!