christmas cards: this week i got to spend a lot of time with my boys in casa santa rosa, which was good because i haven't seen them as much since i've had to spend more and more time in the special needs house. one of the reasons i got to spend so much time with them is because we were making christmas cards! yes, it seems early... but we have a ton to make! i think i explained this, but basically the reason nph works is because people all around the world sponsor the kids in the orphanage and become "madrinos" (god-mothers) or "padrinos" (god-fathers). now, most people sponsor the kids for like $30 a month, which obviously doesn't cover all their needs, so most of the kids have about 6 padrinos. so, we had to make christmas cards for all of them. i was in charge of making cards in casa san pascual (which i basically did by myself because the special needs kids can't write), but also in casa santa rosa. so i created a design and brought all the supplies to help the kids make them. it was a lot of fun, but getting fourteen 11 and 12 year old boys to make 6 christmas cards each was quite challenging. it definitely took us the whole week... but i think they turned out really cute. 
rosary: since the month of october is dedicated to the rosary, the nuns here decided that the kids would pray the rosary everyday this month at 5:00 p.m. it was cool because it's another way i got to spend some time with my boys in casa santa rosa. everyday they do something different. they will pray inside with just their houses. sometimes they pair up and two houses pray together. other times they will do it by sides (there are two sides, with six houses on each side)... or once they even did a big rosary walk with all the kids. it's very cool. most of them don't have rosaries, so it's cute to watch them count on their hands or they'll grab 10 rocks and move them from one hand to the other. also, after they pray the rosary, they'll do a little short bible study where they read the gospel for the day and then all the kids talk about what they understood and how to apply it to their lives.
here are some of the prayers in case you ever want to pray the rosary in spanish!ave maria --> Dios te salve, maría, llena eres de gracia, el Señor es contigo. bendita tú eres entre todas las mujeres, y bendito es el fruto de tu vientre, Jesús. santa maría, madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros, pecadores, ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte. amen.
padre nuestro --> Padre nuestro que estás en el cielo, santificado sea tu nombre, venga an nosotros tu reino, hagase tu voluntad en la tierra como en el cielo. danos hoy nuestro pan de cada día. perdona nuestras ofensas, como tambien nosotros perdonamos a los que nos ofenden; no nos dejes caer en la tentacion, y libranos del mal. amen.
gloria --> gloria a Padre, al Hijo y al Espíritu Santo. como era en el principio, ahora y siempre, por los siglos de los siglos. amen.
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