Martinya

I just can't get that name out of my head. They said once you go to Africa you will go there every day in your heart. I do.

It is inevitable that when you go to a Carepoint in Southern Africa, you will fall in love with all of the children. You will hug and love on and play with every one of them. But it is also inevitable that there will be just one that you connect with. Your eyes will me and you will just know. This is the one who will follow you for your entire stay, who you will give a little extra candy to, who you will make sure has eaten each day. Ask any 2006-07 full time Elevater who that was and they will each give you just one name. That was their kid.

Mine was Martinya. She is the girl with me at the top of my blog. Every day I meet her again on the dusty road leading up the HPC Mozambique Campus. Every day I hold her hand as she stands in line for her only meal of the day. And Every Day I get to hug her and watch her laugh uncontrollably as I tickle her ... because every day I travel back to africa in my mind. She reminds me what this is all about.

It just is a great application to the quote:
"We do it for the one, to bring glory to The One!"