Guatemala Week 1-With His help little guys can do big things, too!

Well kids, I'm about to wrap up my first week here in Guatemala! My kids call me "Seno Carolina"-which means Miss Caroline in English. They call all of the nannies that..so it looks like I've been upgraded from random gringa to nannyish kind of status. I better after the craziness these girls brought into my life today!!!!!!!! :D I was attempting to do the salsa with them here tehehe

And they are ALWAYS insisting that I push them harder on the swings! One of them even wrote a song about it. Ay yo........................

But even so, I love these girls like crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yet despite all of the fun that I've had, there have been so many times the past week that I've felt inadequate to do what God wants me to do here. Unlike most of the other interns, I had never been to the center before. I love children, but I have to work with a group of girls ranging from ages 3-10! There have been times when I have felt homesick, too. And while I speak Spanish fluently (I'm a Spanish teacher yo!) I make STUPID mistakes constantly, like saying "load" instead of "pregnancy" when I was translating for a doctor or saying "pepper" instead of "peanut."

But as I was watching Veggies Tales with some of the kids today, we watched Dave and the Giant Pickle (David and Goliath) episode. Junior Asparagus, who plays Dave/David, tells Archibald (King Saul) that with God's help, he can fight Goliath! He says (in the English version) about Goliath:

"He's big! But God's bigger!

And when I think of him, that's what I figure!

With His help, little guys can do big things, too!

With His help, I know that I can do big things, too!"

I can't do any of these big things. But God is bigger than them, and with His help I know that I can do big things, too!

Tomorrow I'll tell you an even cooler story about how God used David and Goliath in the life of one of my girls this week! But for now, it is time for a semi-hot shower and bedtime :)