Movie Outing

Well, the process has begun. Laury has been volunteering here at Beautiful Gate for about a year and a half. She came about 3 weeks after us and has been such a blessing and help to Bryan in the office at BG. She will be returning to California on July 12 and has no plans to return, at this point. So the good-byes are beginning and it is not going to be easy for her to say good-bye to the staff and children. She has been a great friend to them all and has done so much and given so much to Beautiful Gate as well as to our family.


Her first good-bye happened yesterday when we took 11 (preschool and primary school age) Beautiful Gate children to the mall to see a movie. They had never been to a mall, never ridden in an elevator and never been to a movie theater, so you can imagine the looks of wonder on their faces! She gave them all a little package of fruit chews and bought 3 tubs of popcorn for the kids to share. They were so delighted with these special snacks.

One of the cutest things was when our social worker and playgroup staff brought the kids all into the mall, they told us that the kids kept saying, “we are going to a happy.” They were overjoyed to have an outing. We got many surprised looks when we went walking through the mall with 11 basotho children, 5 adults and my 3 kids. So thank you Laury for a very successful first good-bye. I am not looking forward to the others and wish I could pretend that you weren’t leaving us!!!!