Kimberly Gets her Residency

This morning was BIG circle.  Big circle is when all of the children of Emmanuel gather and sing praises to God, followed by a devotion.  It's an awesome event to be a part of and you can really experience a joy and love for God while surrounded by hundreds of children praising our Heavenly Father.

Today I had to head back to Tegucigalpa with Kimberly so that she could get her residency papers, which are basically papers allowing her to stay in the country for a maximum of 2 years without having to leave every 3 months like she would have to do right now.  I arranged for Alina to stay with the Maryland group while I was gone for the day.  After yesterday, she was a little apprehensive (okay, a LOT apprehensive) about me leaving her alone for the day...but I convinced her than Andres absolutely loved this group and that they would take good care of her.  I showed her how to get to the team house and who to report to.  Later she told me she had a lot of fun and that she worked with the toddlers and then went to the small girls house to put on a puppet show, and ending with playing soccer in the yards...where the bigger boys taught her a few tricks to soccer.

We spent just about the entire day in Tegucigalpa (working with paperwork for businesses and/or the governement is a completely separate story that could take me hours to share how this experience goes!).  Our experience was overall pleasant with quite a bit of help from a man in immigration named Ricardo Carillo.  Although Kimberly should be waiting 30 days to get her official residency card, Ricardo worked hard to get her papers pushed through and said it should be ready to pick up in 10 days!  Kimberly was so excited that she purchased a Snickers bar for him (or was it a Twix?...it was chocolate nonetheless).  We took the rapidito bus back to Guaimaca and were home around 5pm.  At that point, I really needed to call it a night since it had been a lot of travel so far this week.