July has Brought with it the Arrival of Old and New Friends

We have been luck this month to have the house filled with teens. It has not been the usual teens that have been in and out of our home over the last several months however. We have had fun hosting visiting teens! July, for my children has been filled with the fun of making new friends as well as sharing time with old friends from back home! Lara traveled here to do an intern at the company my husband works for and we were lucky to be able to sneak her away at times. It has been a wonderful experience for all of us to make such a wonderful new friend as well as to share stories with a teen from across the ocean. These types of experiences and friendships are so very important for all of us to make. To get to know and understand another person's culture is wonderful! Having moved to an area with so much beautiful diversity in the people all around us has been such a blessing. To have the opportunity to take classes, shop the markets,attend religious activities, serve in communtiy service activities, and share Holidays with people from all over the world has been a wonderful experience for our children as well as for us. The questions shared around our campfire this month have been fun to sit back and listen to. Brit recently wrote a paper on a specific group of people she enjoyed studying. It was such a blessing to read her words as she spoke about the fact that "it is extremely important to know the people we share our streets with". I wonder if we would each take the time to get to know more of the people we share our streets with and our world with, how much less anger and war there would be filling our communities. May all the teens of our world learn to know more about each other and the world they are apart of and work towards making it One World!