Rwanda!

I can hardly believe that I am writing this as I sit in an internet cafe in Kigali. My heart is overwhelmed at the thought of all that God is allowing Theresa and I to be a part of here.

We arrived here on Friday afternoon and spent the day just enjoying Les and Yvonne and their preicous family. I am in love with their family! There have taken so many children and young people under their wings! Though they are in the process of adopting four Rwandan children, they have many many more then that! I have so enjoyed getting to know each one. They each have such distinct personalities and even though I can not speak their language I have come to know and love each one even in this short time. Eric is one of their unofficial sons and he speaks english very well so that is helpful!

Tomorrow afternoon we will be traveling about an hour and a half to a village where we will be spending the rest of our time here in Rwanda. We are excited to get started there but we are also sad to leave Les and Yvonne and their family. They have been so welcoming to us that we already feel like they are our family!

One special memory that I will always have was on Friday night when we had just arrived in Kigali. We went with Yvonne to the home that they have started for some of the older girls who had to leave ths orphanage down the street. There are about ten girls (most in their twenties) who now are able to live in a house together rather then just being kicked out on the street to fend for themselves when they got to old for the orphanage. I will never forget them as long as I live. Yvonne had brought some nail polish along so that we could paint eachothers nails but the girls just wanted to do our nails. They heated water and washed... I take that back... Scrubbed our feet. Then they trimmed our toenails with a double-edged razor! Then they took such care in painting our nails. I think they must have been working on our feet for an hour or more! How percious. We could not even talk to them because they did not know english but we were able to enjoy eachother's fellowship in such a special way. I could not help but think that we have never treated any visitors with such love in America! God teach us to be like these people.