Thank you from little hearts!

Success! It was a bit chaotic. I was a bit stressed at times as I tried to eye up the children and see what articles of clothing would fit but...all in all yesterday was a wonderful day. The volunteers did most the work of going through and sorting the clothes but you can only do so much prep before hand. You can't chose clothes for kids before you see the kids. In the main area where we distributed the clothes we used a building which is usually the chicken coup! The chickens have grown and new chicks haven't yet arrived so the building was able to double as the clothing store.
This is a picture of me with Carlos and Santos after most the clothes had been sorted.



Here we are sorting clothes early yesterday morning before the kids arrived. Laura and I had 3 of the bales of clothes at our house to take to this area first thing yesterday morning. For those of you who have ever helped me move or seen me try to lift something heavy, you know that my lifting ability is closely related to my laughing ability. Laura and I had quite a time trying to lift these 100lb bales of clothes at 7am- I am quite sure I am weaker than normal at that hour!



Here are a few happy children with their wonderful volunteer Adao. In addition to the bales of clothes we purchased we also had these cute colorful t-shirts from GSK (a donor) to hand out. These clothes and t-shirts will be seen around the community for a long time!



Here are some more children with their new things.







One of the sweetest moments was after we had fit a dear little girl with a few things. She left the building glowing. As she walked away I watched her. As I did, she took off running up the dirt path towards her home. She was so excited and she wasn't going to risk anyone else getting her hands on her new things. Her little legs had a new bounce in them. She found joy today. I don't think this is day she, or hundreds of others, will soon forget!
Thank you for your help and entrusting me to be a part of something like this. Thanks for allowing me to be the one to reap the benefits- to see the smiles and get the hugs. I think God smiled down on Mozambique yesterday as many people came together and did as Jesus said, "I needed clothes and you clothed me..." Matt. 25:36
Thank you, thank you and thank you! God bless you!