WEEK 17

On Monday, this week I got to go to the Social Welfare Department to meet with the head guy to go over what MYC had been doing with the guidelines from the government and talked about how to get birth certificates for the kids who don't have them yet. So for the rest of Monday, I worked on figuring out who needed birth certificates from our homes and helped write letters to the government with the details of the child's situation as apart of documents we will need when filing for a birth certificate. On Tuesday morning I did that as well but I started not feeling well and ended up being sick from Tuesday afternoon through Thursday! It was similar to the past sickness I had the first month I was here. I had some stomach issues. It was not as bad as the first time but it still was not fun. I didn't really start eating anything until Thursday. You learn a lot about yourself when you are sick. How much you can handle, what kind of sickness you can handle, how you are with other people when your sick, etc. I am not a good sick person. I don't like being sick (not that I know anyone who does) and I don't like doing anything when I'm sick! So God took the opportunity to teach me some things in my sickness. One of the biggest things he taught me and I have a really hard time sharing this because I like to say I'm not but I've been a pretty selfish person at least in my thinking if not in my actions. It's one of the things I've been working on putting others before myself. It's hard sometimes when everyone around you is telling you to do what is best for you and don't worry about anyone else. So it was an eye opening experience for God to show me how my motives don't always line up with my actions. I may do the right things sometimes but my attitude isn't always in line with what I am doing. God just really made me see how much more productive I would be if my attitude and my actions were in line with each other. 

For the end of the week, on Friday, when I was able to go back to work, I continued working on the birth certificate letters. I was unable though to make it to the girl's home because of being sick and then our volunteer car broke down. So hopefully next week I'll be able to post some more pictures of the progress of the home!