Donations Donations Donations:

The past week has been a busy one with a great list of accomplishments

• Junior year begins
• First soccer game of the season

• Shots and pills with the an awesome travel nurse for Bolivia

• Some awesome generous people have given donations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week:

• The United Methodist Women’s group at my church donated $200 dollars to help me purchase supplies for my mission

• My Aunt successfully asked a group she is part of called Heartworks to have a small toy drive and donated $50 to help me purchase materials
• I was able to receive around 60 Burger King crowns for a theme day during the mission

• My Mom purchased a few awesome children’s books in Spanish for the mission and I hope to eventually donate them to a school/orphanage I will visit on my mission

I just wanted to give a huge shout out of thanks and appreciation to everyone reading my blog, donating supplies or money, and giving me a ton of support as I prepare for my mission to Bolivia in October. I am including a few pictures from past missions to illustrate the joy the children feel in having the toys to play with. They sure are put to god use!

I also wanted to wish luck to my friends Cristy and Yanelle who are traveling to Columbia in a few days! Also I added a small box on the left side of the blog with links to some other Operation Smile blogs. They are fantastic. Yanelle has one up and will be posting news from her mission. A few people I know also just returned home from missions to Fortaleza, Brazil; Taxacala, Mexico; and Kolkata, India.

-Rachael

ps. Sorry for this picture at the end. I have trouble with removing and editing pictures once they have been added.