A day of numbers.

Hola!

Today was a little bit different for me. Instead of helping with English and tutoring, I was reqruited to go help with a project. The programs that I am working with are under Christ for the City. This organization has sites in Costa Rica and many other countries. Another organization is called Toms Shoes. Many of you have probably heard of this, but this is a popular shoe company in the United States. For every pair of shoes sold in the United States, the company donates 1 pair to a developing country or a 3^rd world country. Now to make the connection, Toms Shoes is going to donate some of these shoes to Christ for the City in Costa Rica. When Toms Shoes donates to an organization in a developing country, the minimum pairs of shoes that they donate is 17,000. Yeah…17,000!

This is unbelievable and really awesome that the kids I work with in La Carpio are all going to be receiving new shoes that fit them. Now here’s where my job came in today. I helped one of the leaders of Christ for the City tally shoes sizes all day. This means that I would read a list of shoe sizes (yeah…thousands…) and the number of kids from the different locations that had that shoes size while the leader wrote them down. It was all numbers all day! I should be an expert in saying and recording Spanish numbers I think. My tongue was honestly getting tongue twisted from having to do so many trills with the numbers!

Although it was kind of long to just repeat numbers, write them down, and add them on a calculator, I actually really liked the work that I did today because it was something that I could see progress in. I could see that when we were done with a list, we moved on to the next one. I also liked it because I was needed and having help cut the process time in half. I really like to be useful and see the progress taking shape.

This afternoon I had some alone time with God which was much needed. However, I am struggling to feel satisfied with God right now, and I would appreciate your prayers in this area. I pray that God fills me and satisfies me. Honestly, I struggle believeing that God really can meet all my needs and desires. I pray that he shows me that he can.