What we are doing here

So Bradley and I are here in south America for two reasons, 1 is helping Liahona Children's Foundation, http://www.liahonachildren.org/#/home  where we are training area coordinators, setting up new areas, and most of all screening children for malnutrition. our second reason is that we are doing projects with BYU, we are evaluating the organization, and surveying the mothers in the program in a few areas.

Last night we had our first screening here. It was pretty rough. Both Bradley and I have a lot of kinks to work out in what we are doing, but I think we will be able to make the adjustments and do some serious good here. Another hard part is seeing these malnourished children. I feel for them so much. I can tell how badly these mothers would love to have healthy, well nourished children, but they don't have the resources. It breaks my heart. I am so grateful to have such a healthy, strong baby boy.

The screening was chaotic. i have trouble understanding the language to begin with, but it was really discouraging realizing how much I have to learn. It was worse too because I would get frustrated and it would be harder to remember the words. I need to work on that.

Bradley was also frustrated because speaking and writing are different and he struggled with translating the survey into Spanish, and it needs a lot of work. Thank goodness for this test run!

It's only been a week tomorrow, and I already feel like I've changed. I will never be the same person again. And that is probably a good thing.

Earlier in the day we went to a fantastic museum here! First time seeing another tourist, and also first time having A/C since getting here. 

After the screening we decided to chill for a bit before dinner and go to one of the many gorgeous parks here with Rocio's family. 

Oh and did I mention that my baby is 4 months old??? How is time going by so fast?!