In this culture there is
little value placed on people and it is a foreign thing to believe that you are
truly valuable! That is why are first 4 lessons are are all on value and
helping these precious little girls find their worth! My little girl’s bodies
are sold as objects, and often the other girls in the community are the ones
selling them. This past week we taught
the concept of value and respect, not only for themselves, but for the people
around them! Our hope this week was that our girl would walk away saying
"if I am too valuable to be sold, then the girl down the street is also
way too valuable to be sold."
The girls had a really
hard time this week understanding why we couldn’t sell each other. So I had to
go back to because you are SO valuable and GOD made you for a purpose and he
doesn’t want you to be sold, and that means he really doesn’t want you sell
your friend. I said that at least 50 times each class. We declared it. Screamed
it. Whispered it. Danced as we declared it. We did it all! I made sure that by
the end of class when I asked what it means to have value that I had tons of little
hands shoot up in the air to answer! We might have to do this every week, and
come back to value, and that is okay! If that is the only thing they walk away
with every class, I am one happy missionary!
With our hope of this
class being "if I am too valuable to be sold, then the girl down the
street is also way too valuable to be sold”, then we are going to value and
respect each other! Sooo, we taught them a little respect song! It was heavy
day that ended with laughter and dancing!!
It makes giggle, and my heart filled with so much love to imagine over 1,000 girls walking around the village singing respect. God wins again! :)
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